The 2015 season has not gone as planned for Kyle Lohse. After two solid campaigns in the Brewers’ starting rotation — where he pitched to mid-three ERAs despite mediocre peripherals — he has completely deflated, allowing more than six runs per nine innings. No team can continue to run out a pitcher with that kind […]
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Game One-Hundred Three Recap: Cubs 4, Brewers 2
TOP PLAY (WPA) Having already thrown 19 pitches in the top of the 3rd inning on Saturday, Matt Garza served up a fastball at the top of the zone to Anthony Rizzo, who promptly deposited it in the right field seats (+.298 WPA). The inning started pretty easily for Garza, who seemed to be settling into […]
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 […]
Game Eighty-Four Recap: Braves 5, Brewers 3
TOP PLAY (WPA) The Braves wasted no time breaking Kyle Lohse last night, touching up the beleaguered Milwaukee starter straight-away in the first inning. With a runner on second and one out, Lohse hung a slider and Atlanta first baseman Kelly Johnson promptly sent it into orbit, a no-doubter into the right field bleachers (+.165 WPA). And with […]
Game Seventy-Five Recap: Brewers 10, Twins 4
TOP PLAY (WPA): After allowing a leadoff homer to Gerardo Parra (more on this later), a ground-rule double to Jonathan Lucroy, and back-to-back singles to Braun and Lind, right-hander Trevor May induced a weak comebacker off the bat of Carlos Gomez. May attempted to start a double play, but threw the ball into center field. Braun […]
Kyle Lohse and The Limits of DIPS
Most sabermetric analysis of pitchers revolves around three central statistics: strikeouts, walks, and fly balls (in relation to home runs). Hurlers who compile a healthy amount of the former while avoiding the latter two will see that reflected in their xFIP — considered by many the best statistic to evaluate a pitcher. This doesn’t fully illustrate […]