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 […]
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Update: Cashing Out OFP 2
Earlier this week, I examined the surplus added by Brewers GM David Stearns, which is undoubtedly one of the reasons the club is performing quite well. Stearns, in stark contrast to recently famous rebuilds in Chicago and his previous front office (Houston), is building competitive clubs at the MLB level by cashing in on short-term […]
Surplus: Scalp or Spread
The Brewers are currently lead by a group of surprisingly valuable players, which is undeniably one of the reasons that the club remains steadily better than average. Entering Sunday’s game against the Dodgers, the Brewers’ top WARP belonged to: Eric Thames, nearly a handful of years removed from the MLB, previously a Korean Baseball Organization […]
Counts with Guerra
Junior Guerra made his official return to the Brewers rotation for the first time since his April 3rd start against the Rockies, when he went down with a calf injury. As I mentioned earlier this year, Guerra is one of only two opening day starters in Brewers history, along with Mark Knudson in 1991 who […]
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 […]
Opening Day History
It didn’t take the 2017 Brewers long to land themselves in the history book. 46 pitches to be exact. That’s the moment when opening day starter Junior Guerra sprinted out of the batter’s box, strained his calf, and landed on the 10 day Disabled List. Per the Journal Sentinel’s Tom Haudricourt, it could be an […]
2017 Brewers Fantasy Preview
The Milwaukee Brewers are not the world’s most interesting team for fantasy baseball purposes. They have two good players and then a lot of interesting young ones, but not a ton in the middle. However, those young players are generally worth monitoring throughout the season, particularly if playing time develops in either the outfield or […]
Success with Opening Day Starters
What the Brewers are attempting on Opening Day has only been done eleven times in the past ten years, and the decision isn’t sitting too well with some fans. After the news broke that 32-year-old second year starting pitcher Junior Guerra would get the ball to start the season, Tom Haudricourt, a Brewers beat writer […]
Optimism Part One: Three Weird Tricks to Get to .500
It’d be a mistake to assume that win totals are linear for a rebuilding baseball club like the Brewers. Prospects fail more often than not, trade value and free agent spending splurges are part timing and part luck, and there’s very much an open question over when a team has actually “bottomed out.” All that […]
A Tight Rotation
Spring Training starts soon, which means a number of things to everyone. It’s a chance for young players to make an impression with the big club. It’s two months to prepare for the season for those assured of a roster spot. And, in quite a few cases, it’s a semi-open audition for the unfilled spots […]