One of the best aspects of following the Milwaukee Brewers’ recent playoff run was seeing numerous figures from Brewers teams past participate in pregame ceremonies. Our beloved franchise is known as a losing franchise, and for good reason: you can count Brewers playoff appearances on one hand (1981, 1982, 2008, 2011, 2018). Ryan Braun is the […]
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The Greatest “Peaks” in Brewers History
Every year articles are written about a player’s “peak,” normally trying to identify the best years of a player’s performance, in the abstract, and trying to place some kind of arbitrary boundaries around the data. The problem is that, for the most part, people often use the term “peak” in relative terms. The so-called peak will […]
The Search for a New Core: Lessons from Previous 90-Loss Teams, Part III
We return for Part III of Lessons From Previous 90-Loss Brewer Teams. For a quick refresher, I am trying to use this portion of the offseason to look back at previous Milwaukee Brewers teams which lost at least 90 games, in order to see if there are any lessons from those past failures that can help […]