–Take a look at this video. You stay classy, Philadelphia. You know, for all the joking flak that Philly gets for violence in the stands and being the faux City of Brotherly Love, there are quite a few little incidents that back up the stereotype. It’s fun for me to hate Philadelphia because I’m still [...]
So, The Hardball Times has a neat stat looking at how “cluch” each hitter has been so far this year. “Clutch,” in this case, is produce from Bill James’ formula. I’ll let THT explain: “Clutch” is the name we’ve given to the portion of Bill James’s Runs Created formula that includes the impact of a [...]
Now that Doug Melvin has basically confirmed that he’s going to make some kind of move as the trade deadline comes to fruition and the pitching situation has become much murkier. If Melvin is going to make a move in the pitching department, it’s definitely going to come in the next couple of weeks when [...]
First I said Bill Hall will revert back to 2006 Bill Hall and put up a drastic improvement. Well, that’s gone to hell, since the great majority of his secondary stats have gotten worse and he’s become a replacement-level player (even against lefties, it seems now). I’ll be changing the title on the main page [...]
Brewerfan.net is reporting that Doug Melvin has a trade in the works for some starting pitching. The names most speculated on in that thread include Cliff Lee, Jake Peavy, or even someone like Dan Haren or Roy Halladay. The last two are totally unrealistic but would be exponentially awesome. The last update from the fan [...]
Jesse Motiff just penned a column on why the Brewers’ future shouldn’t contain J.J. Hardy. Motiff lists a myriad of reasons mostly centered around Alcides Escobar coming in as a valuable replacement should Hardy be traded. The problem with that train of logic is that Hardy is one of the best players in MLB, and [...]
During the top of the 9th inning in yesterday’s ballgame, I told the friend I was watching the game with, “watch out for this Jason Kendall double play — the rally will vanish.” Pinch-hitter Casey McGehee led off the 9th inning with a walk and the tying run was on first with nobody out. Kendall [...]
Last year, the Milwaukee Brewers sent Dave Bush down to AAA after stinking up Milwaukee with terrible pitching performances through the first few months of the season. At this point last year, Bush was 2-5 with a 5.49 ERA and it got worse in his next start, hovering his ERA near 6 before catching fire [...]
Over the offseason I spoke briefly about Jorge Julio shortly after he signed with the Brewers for a one-year, $750k deal. I said that I approved of the deal, as the price was right and the Brewers were probably going to be smart enough to use him in non-leverage situations since he’s made an entire [...]
Some thoughts after a totally acceptable 1-2 home series against the Cardinals… The Brewers have been linked to trading for Jake Peavy to compliment the starting rotation and become this year’s C.C. Sabathia. Actually these articles don’t explicitly mention the Brewers having any interest in Peavy, but simply that people assume the Brewers are frontrunners [...]