Earlier this week, I covered one underappreciated element of Jonathan Lucroy’s 2015 hardship. Even without taking into account double plays, he clearly came up short — his TAv fell 52 points, from .306 in 2014 to .254 in 2015. For a team that lost 94 games and generally had trouble scoring runs, this only made […]
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Looking Back At PECOTA’s Projection For The Brewers
Every year before the season starts, Baseball Prospectus’ PECOTA projections come out. Then, a slew of articles and discussions are written about the projections, and only a person with too much time on their hands can keep up with those. In short, everybody wants to see where their team ranks within the projections, and everyone […]
Jonathan Lucroy’s Double-Play Problem
The 2015 Brewers offense fell short in many, many regards (which I’ll soon dissect in greater detail). Any time your team accrues the eighth-fewest runs in baseball, while playing half its games in the bandbox of Miller Park, you’ve done something wrong. One of the less-noticed factors behind Milwaukee’s lackluster scoring: The club grounded into […]
Old Friend Marco Estrada’s Changeup Dazzles In Texas
Old friend Marco Estrada earned the win in Toronto’s Game Three win Sunday night over the Rangers, behind 6.1 innings and just one earned run. The Rangers could only muster five hits, while Estrada struck out four without walking a batter. The performance kept his Blue Jays alive and will give R.A. Dickey and David […]
Adam Lind, First Base Production, and Trade Value
In a tumultuous year for the Milwaukee Brewers, Adam Lind has proven to be one of the few bright spots. He’s provided solid production for the organization from a position that has been laughably unproductive in years past. Lind, however, will be a free agent at the end of the 2016 season, so if the Brewers are looking aggressively continue […]
Khris Davis’s Incredible First-Pitch Success
Many fans of the Brewers realized in 2015 how much they appreciated Khris Davis. Along with Adam Lind and Ryan Braun, Davis helped to keep the Milwaukee’s offense afloat in an all-around ugly year. Unlike those first two names, Davis still has relative youth on his side — he’ll turn 28 in a few months […]
Jorge Lopez & The Fickle Nature of Prospect Lists
Top-prospect lists are not what people desire them to be. They don’t rank how likely minor-league players are to stick in the majors and find success. They shouldn’t guarantee what a prospect will become in the future, nor should they pretend to foresee all possible paths of development. In the end, prospect lists are best utilized to […]
Can Ariel Pena Stick in the Rotation?
For me, the most frustrating element of the 2015 Brewers has been that they’ve paired a generally exquisite bullpen with a putrid starting rotation. The fourth-best relief DRA in baseball means Milwaukee has sustained most of the leads it’s taken into the late innings; the fifth-worst starter DRA in baseball means those leads haven’t occurred very […]
Jason Rogers’ Spectacular Month
If you’ve watched the Brewers play baseball in September, you’ve probably seen Jason Rogers do something like this: Or perhaps you’ve seen him do something like this: Needless to say, Jason Rogers is having a great September. He has compiled a tremendous .488/.553/.707 slash line. Before this month, though, if you’re not an avid Brewers […]
Scooter Gennett’s Uncertain Future
Scooter Gennett has been overshadowed in recent weeks, with the emergence of Orlando Arcia and the Gomez/Parra trades infusing additional exciting, young talent into the farm system. Indeed, as the 25-year-old second baseman has struggled, he and shortstop Jean Segura have lost much of their luster as the team’s key building blocks. Guys like Arcia, Brett Phillips, Domingo […]