This has been quite the year for the Brewers’ farm system. Prospects like Orlando Arcia and Jorge Lopez have increased their already high stock. Recent first-round draft pick Trent Clark lit up the rookie leagues. Taylor Jungmann is having a better-than-expected start to his major-league career. All the prospects in the Gomez/Fiers deal have impressed, including […]
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From BP: Brewers Stearnly Assay Their Future
Hired David Stearns as general manager; Doug Melvin moves to an advisory role within the organization. [9/21] Rumors swirled for months around the Brewers’ GM search, with most suggesting the club would target someone young, analytical, and ambitious. With Doug Melvin sticking around as an advisor and potential mentor, the organization had an opportunity to […]
David Stearns Continues Baseball’s Ivy Invasion
With the Brewers set to hire Astros’ assistant general manager David Stearns, the Ivy League’s takeover of Major League Baseball continues. The 30-year-old will be the game’s youngest head executive, and the second youngest in league history after Texas’s Jon Daniels. Stearns represents what David Lennon called “baseball’s new executives” at Newsday: young, highly educated […]
The Positive Value of September
It should come as no surprise for me to say that the Brewers are out of contention. At this point in the year, many teams are. And, at this point of the year, most of those teams should be using September as an opportunity to try out some of their young players. Fortunately, that is exactly […]
The 2013 Brewers and the Absurdity of Protected Picks
After a rousing beginning to September, in which the Brewers gave Miller Park fans a sweep of the Pirates and won six of their first seven games, the Brewers have cooled down and dropped five of their past six. For a team that has been buried in the playoff race, there are far worse fates. […]
Brewers Lay Out An Unwelcome Matt
This month, the Milwaukee Brewers decided to move on from Matt Garza for the remainder of the 2015 season. Should this trial separation between the two parties turn into a divorce? ***** Two years plus one month ago, when Matt Garza was still pitching for the Texas Rangers, he gave Brewers fans a sneak peek into the […]
Being GM In Milwaukee Is A Good Gig
Milwaukee announced over the summer that Doug Melvin planned to step down after the regular season and that an extensive search for a new general manager had been put in motion. Some names on the organization’s short list have begun trickling out into the media. Mike Hazen, assistant GM in Boston, is reportedly in the […]
September Moves May Portend Future Transactions
A while back I wrote about who we might expect to receive a September call-up. Now that we’re in the second week of September, we have a pretty good idea of who is and isn’t coming up. The Brewers already promoted Domingo Santana and Zach Davies. Today, they will activate catcher Nevin Ashley and shortstop Luis […]
The Bogus Harvey-Sabathia Comparison
CC Sabathia will forever be fondly remembered in Milwaukee not just because of his amazing performance down the stretch in 2008, but also because of his willingness to start an amazing four times in a row on three days rest in September and into October. Not only was Sabathia sacrificing his body, but Sabathia was […]
Days of Future Present
The Brewers’ July trade of Carlos Gomez and Mike Fiers signaled a clear indication that the organization knew it needed to retool. They shipped out an excellent player on a reasonable contract who will be a free agent after next season, and they also got rid of a cost-controlled pitcher who is already 30. Neither […]