For a player with virtually no big league experience prior to last season, Jesus Aguilar made quite the impression with the Brewers. In parts of three seasons prior to 2017, Aguilar accumulated 64 plate appearances. Last year, though, he put up a .284 TAv in 311 plate appearances in his age-27 season. He got virtually […]
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Weekend Recap: Anderson and Aguilar
The Brewers had a big weekend in Denver, winning two of three against the Colorado Rockies. The bats predictably had a good weekend at Coors Field, but it was the pitching taking a step forward that netted the two wins. While the Brewers are only two games behind the division lead, swoons by both Arizona […]
Weekend Recap 13: Aguilar, Knebel
The Brewers spent last week beating up on the American League East. They swept the Orioles at home and took two of three from the Yankees in New York, with a win in Chicago in between to make it a 6-1 week. Brewers Yankees Friday July 7 9 4 Saturday July 8 3 5 Sunday […]
Naming Contending Brewers Stars
The Brewers have spent 36 days in first place this 2017 season, which is perhaps one of the biggest surprises of the MLB campaign. Even those analysts and fans that felt the rebuild and develop campaign was on the right track hardly thought the Brewers would be competitive in the vast majority of cases. Many […]
An Ode to Chumps
In my household, a “chump” comes as highly regarded as any baseball player not named Jose Altuve, Khris Davis, Geoff Jenkins, or Scott Podsednik. I owe this concept to one of my closest friends and baseball watchers, when we cut our teeth with a wrecking crew tasked with watching the likes of Seth McClung, Craig […]
Milwaukee’s Other First Baseman
It’s funny how quickly we get spoiled by things, simply because we’re accustomed to them. As Louis CK once said, “everything’s amazing, and nobody’s happy.” I’m as caught up in Thames-mania as anyone. (Do we have a better phrase for this yet? Seems like we should). But I think back to our expectations over the […]
The Platoon You Wish Existed
On February 2nd, first baseman Jesus Aguilar became a member of the Milwaukee Brewers, after being claimed off of waivers from the Cleveland Indians. Aguilar, a 26-year-old right-handed hitter, has only appeared in 35 Major League games, totaling 64 plate appearances. In an extremely small sample size, the Venezuelan slashed .172/.234/.190 during that three year […]
Camp Prospects
Each year, spring training serves as a warm up for players knock out the winter’s cobwebs and get in playing shape for the long baseball regular season. Most players are working through some sort of mechanical adjustments or tinkering with a new pitch, pitchers only work maybe a couple of innings as they build up arm […]
Replacing Chris Carter
When the Milwaukee Brewers non-tendered Chris Carter and his projected $8.1 million arbitration salary, many wondered why the team would get rid of the National Leagues home run co-leader and how they would replace his run production in the middle of the Brewers lineup. Almost immediately, the team announced the signing of Eric Thames on a […]
Roster Surprises
It’s been 146 days since the Milwaukee Brewers have played a competitive baseball game against another team, defeating the Colorado Rockies by a score of 6-4 on October 2nd, 2016. That streak mercifully ends today, as our local nine kicks off this year’s slate of Spring Training games at 2:05 PM CST with an exhibition against […]