I bet you’ll just never guess what we’re talking about this week, folks. It’s late in the year, the major league team is [insert interesting-sounding synonym for bad here], and we’ve got big news in the front office this week. Let’s dive in: Brew Crew Ball || Hiring of David Stearns cements new direction for […]
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A Six-Pack of Cold-Filtered Brewers Optimism
If you are a Milwaukee Brewers fan, finding reasons to be upset in 2015 is not a difficult exercise. Jonathan Lucroy and Jean Segura are both emitting the unmistakable stench of cratered trade value. Kyle Lohse, Matt Garza, and Aramis Ramirez did nothing or worse, while drawing a combined salary approximately level with the GDP of Tuvalu. The […]
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 […]