Our very own dark horse Rookie of the Year candidate Casey McGehee has not-so-quietly had a spectacular year for Milwaukee, putting up a line of .304/.370/.515 in his rookie year with 15 homers in only 335 PA. If he didn’t split playing time with other guys and didn’t sit out with an injury on the [...]
Just some things to think about as we reach the midway point of the season… *** Milwaukee’s spent the majority of the first half playing slightly above their record. However their recent 3-8 June Swoon has them at the All-Star Break with a negative pythagorean record. BP’s playoff odds say the Brewers only have a [...]
Yesterday with the Brewers down 1-0 in the bottom of the 9th, Ken Macha decided to pinch-hit Casey McGehee over Mat Gamel against right-handed closer Frankie Rodriguez. It was an obvious way of saying “I’m riding the hot hand” and McGehee ended up grounding weakly to short. Yesterday I thought that Gamel should be getting [...]
A pretty good post from Adam McCalvy last night regarding the recent pine-ride for hot prospect Mat Gamel and whether or hot he’ll get sent back down to the minor leagues after this upcoming series. In case you didn’t read the article: Casey McGehee has forced himself into the Brewers’ everyday lineup, in turn forcing [...]
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 [...]
The St. Louis Cardinals have lost to the Milwaukee Brewers four out of four times so far this season, and going back to season the Brew Crew have beaten them up to the tune of a 9-1 record in their last ten meetings. Milwaukee’s kind of treated them recently as if they were the Pirates, [...]
Everyone knows by now that Rickie Weeks is out for the season with a torn tendon sheath in his right wrist. This is the same injury that sidelined him for awhile and subsequently irritated him until last year, and so far this season he looked to be completely healthy and fulfilling the potential he was [...]
Using the Baseball Musings Lineup Simulation tool, here’s a quick look at what the offense will do in 2009. Note that these numbers are all CHONE projections, with one objection: I’m predicting Bill Hall will do much better than his projections, considering he’s due for a BABIP correction year and I have a good feeling [...]