At the trade deadline, the Brewers traded Gerardo Parra. Unsurprisingly, many fans were upset, as is often the case when a team trades away a quality player. What does surprise me is the negative general reaction toward Khris Davis when he returned to a starting role. The thought among those fans is that Gerardo Parra is […]
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Rolling Out the Barrel: A Trade, An Almost-Trade, and Other Trades
Welcome, friends, to the 2015 MLB trade deadline and to the second edition of Rolling Out the Barrel. With the deadline just recently passed, we’ve already seen a ton of movement around the league, and the Brewers have been front and center for it. As you have search for updates about the trade of Gerardo […]
Brewers Trade Parra, Broxton At Deadline
Brewers Trade Parra To Baltimore The Brewers continue an impressive, albeit unsexy, reload. Parra was a cheap grab at last year’s trade deadline, and while the team went 66-90 during his tenure, he can hardly be faulted. Parra batted .312/.355/.482 in 146 games in a Brewers uniform, and again, that versatility in the outfield was […]
Handicapping the Gerardo Parra Sweepstakes
For the armchair general manager aspiring to a complete a total rebuild, this Brewers’ midseason trading period has been an endless parade of teasing and frustration. The first official white flag of 2015 was arguably flown on May 3, when the Brewers fired manager Ron Roenicke amidst a putrid 7-18 start. Almost immediately, the speculation […]
Game One-Hundred and One Recap: Brewers 5, Giants 2
TOP PLAY (WPA) With one out, one on, and one run already scored in the top of the first, Brewers first baseman Adam Lind, who had missed the previous two games after being pulled in the third inning of Milwaukee’s loss to Arizona on Saturday with a sore back, ripped a single to right field to […]
Recent Trades Could Provide Deadline Insights
The Brewers have reportedly received interest in many of their players, but as of this writing this article they have only moved Aramis Ramirez for some salary relief and a Double-A reliever. The trade deadline grows agonizingly closer by the hour, and while that doesn’t make it more or less likely they don’t move many players, […]
Rolling Out the Barrel: Kyle Lohse, Monte Harrison, and the Trade Deadline
Good morning, Brewers fans. Welcome to Rolling Out the Barrel, a new weekly roll call (do you get it. DO YOU GET IT!?) of good and/or important articles from around the web with which the Brewers are at least tangentially associated. I’m your host Travis Sarandos, and I’ll help you find the articles you might […]
The Fall of Gerardo Parra’s Baserunning
As the Brewers move deeper into July, they will start to move some of their expendable pieces, in the hopes that they can gain something useful for the years to come. My colleague Derek Harvey profiled one such piece, Gerardo Parra, and concluded that Parra would return more in a trade now than he did when the Brewers […]
Game Eighty-Nine Recap: Brewers 7, Dodgers 1
TOP PLAY (WPA): With two outs in the third inning, Carlos Gomez stepped to the plate with the bases loaded and the game tied at 0-0. The Brewers’ center fielder got under a hanging slider from Brandon Beachy — preventing a monstrous grand slam — but ultimately got enough of it to bounce it off the […]
Game Eighty-Three Recap: Brewers 6, Reds 1
TOP PLAY (WPA): Scooter Gennett’s double in the second inning drove in Jean Segura (+.119 WPA). Aramis Ramirez scored Gerardo Parra to give the Brewers a run in the first inning, but it was their second run that proved to statistically be the most important. Jean Segura led off the inning with a single to left. Scooter […]