Adam McCalvy: Manager Ken Macha intends to start Rivera for a second straight game when Yovani Gallardo takes the mound against the Astros at Miller Park. And why not? Rivera, who has been with the Brewers all season but only had 63 at-bats before Thursday, belted a pair of home runs and drove in four [...]
Well the Crew shook things up Wednesday, sending J.J. Hardy to Nashville, firing pitching coach Bill Castro, and DFA’d Bill Hall. They’ve been teetering on the end of desperation for awhile now and getting rid of the pitching coach and worst player on the team were two moves that pretty much had to be made, [...]
Numerous times I’ve pointed out on BPL that the Brewers made the right move by not making any major trades for a Cliff Lee or Roy Halladay since the Brewers were blowing smoke and mirrors during their hot stretch at the beginning of the year and they’re too flawed to justify overspending for a band-aid [...]
A quick look at Brewers WAR in 2009, updated through Thursday, August 6th. Image after the jump:
With the recent lukewarm streak the Brew Crew have been on, I’ve become a little more optimistic about this season, despite the pedestrian loss last night. Even though the playoffs are a distant memory, there’s no reason not to be a happy Brewer fan. Here are a few things I’m grinning about as the dog [...]
It’s been a tough weekend to be a Brewers fan. To keep things simple, I’ll just list off what made it so hard. 1. Losing a 7-1 lead to one of the worst teams in baseball. 2. Losing Corey Hart for a month just as he’s starting to come around. 3. Having Bill Hall return [...]
So a few days after I call for management to consider releasing Bill Hall, they do me one better and send him down to AAA. This works because if Hall is really seeing the ball better, we’ll find out soon enough, and he could also be seen by other teams while he’s playing well, if [...]
Milwaukee Brewers Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP), of everyone who has significant innings, 2009: Trevor Hoffman – 2.54 Todd Coffey – 2.88 Mark DiFelice – 3.58 Yovani Gallardo – 3.92 Mitch Stetter – 3.98 Carlos Villanueva – 4.65 Manny Parra – 4.69 Jeff Suppan – 5.65 Braden Looper – 5.7 Dave Bush – 5.82 Seth McClung [...]
Friends, family, and everyone else, We gather here today to mourn the loss of our friend, the 2009 season. It was a good season, a fun season — it had its ups and downs, like any fun season. We stuck with it through the thick and thin, and wanted so hard for them to succeed… [...]
I don’t think there’s much hope left this season. The future doesn’t sound too great right now either. Losing by 8 at home to the lowly Nationals is obviously the low point of the season. Tom H. has a new article up touching on the problems of the currently overworked bullpen, which one starting pitcher [...]