Being a fan of the World Series Champions team can actually be a bittersweet moment in some ways. On the one hand, your favorite team wins something that in defines them as the best team in baseball that season and probably etches that team’s name in the franchise history books. On the other hand, the baseball […]
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Jered Weaver, Trevor Hoffman, and Brewers Velocity
It’s spring training and some storylines are already starting to filter throughout the blogosphere. The St. Louis Cardinals need a shortstop after Jhonny Peralta injured his thumb, Jose Bautista wants more money than major-league teams want to pay him, and Jered Weaver is doing his best Jamie Moyer impression on the mound. Reports suggest that […]
Aaron Hill’s Strange Career
On January 30th, the Milwaukee Brewers made a much-anticipated trade, one that reportedly been percolating since the end of the 2015 season. They traded shortstop Jean Segura and Tyler Wagner to the Arizona Diamondbacks in exchange for Chase Anderson, Isan Diaz, and Aaron Hill. It’s an interesting trade because, in all probability, the Brewers primarily […]
The Greatest “Peaks” in Brewers History
Every year articles are written about a player’s “peak,” normally trying to identify the best years of a player’s performance, in the abstract, and trying to place some kind of arbitrary boundaries around the data. The problem is that, for the most part, people often use the term “peak” in relative terms. The so-called peak will […]
Jonathan Lucroy’s Team-Friendliest Contract
The Brewers are in a predictable course of action. They’re rebuilding. Since July, the Brewers have traded Carlos Gomez, Mike Fiers, Francisco Rodriguez, Adam Lind, Jason Rogers, Aramis Ramirez, Jonathan Broxton, Gerardo Parra and, most recently, Khris Davis. In essence, the Brewers are trading anyone who will garner them young and controllable assets, mainly in […]
Are We Approaching The Age of the Shortstop?
The first and second part of my series can be found here, and here. Don’t worry, this will be the final installment. Is this the golden age for the shortstop position? The quick answer is no. Perhaps the better answer to this question, though, is not yet. There’s a very good reason as to why a […]
The Greatness of the 2015 Rookie Class: Part Two
Last week, I looked at the greatness of the 2015 rookie hitter class and found that it proved to be historically good. Today, as you can imagine, I’m going to delve into the pitching side. There are always two sides to a coin, and even though the rookie hitters performed at an all-time-great level, it doesn’t mean the […]
Which Brewer Had the Worst Pitch in 2015?
On Tuesday, I wrote about the best pitches that we saw from the Brewers in 2015. Jimmy Nelson’s curveball, Ariel Pena’s four-seam fastball, Francisco Rodriguez’s changeup, and Will Smith’s slider all separated themselves from the pack in a good way. Now, we come to the natural compliment to that exercise — which Milwaukee offerings proved […]
The Greatness of the 2015 Rookie Class: Part One
It’s early and hard to tell what we’ll remember most from this season. It might be the Jose Bautista home run or the Josh Donaldson performance. Conversely, it might be the tremendous 2015 rookie class. If you watched baseball this year, or even paid attention to it, you probably knew at some point that this […]
Which Brewer Had the Best Pitch in 2015?
Most fans of baseball seem to observe the game from a hitting-centric viewpoint. As Warren Spahn once quipped, “hitting is timing, pitching is upsetting timing.” This approach has never appealed to me — I think pitchers have a greater hand in the game than we credit them for. Aside from the fact that they succeed far […]