Dodgers Send Shock Waves Through Local TV Landscape
Early Sunday morning, Twitter was abuzz with news that the Dodgers and Fox Sports West had agreed to a 25-year broadcast deal valued between $6 billion and $7 billion. By Sunday afternoon, Bill Shaikin...
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Ryan Dempster Changes, Remains the Same
The Brewers aren’t sure that they want to go to three years for Ryan Dempster, but they do need a pitcher now that Shaun Marcum is seeing other teams. There are good reasons to like him — a few changes...
View ArticleOffensive Volatility and Beating Win Expectancy
Armed with a new measure for offensive volatility (VOL), I wanted to revisit research I conducted last year about the value of a consistent offense. In general, the literature has suggested if you’re...
View ArticleRebuilding The Brewers’ Bullpen
No bullpen took more losses (33) or blew more saves (29) than the Brewers’ relief unit last season. A total of 18 different relievers pitched to a combined 4.66 ERA, the worst mark in the big leagues....
View ArticleThe Speedy Tommy Harper And The Random Career Year
Only 27 players have hit 100 or more homers and stolen 400 or more bases in their career. Eleven of them are in the Baseball Hall of Fame, and four others can reasonably be expected to reach...
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Kelvim Escobar: Delicate, Unkillable
The Brewers signed Kelvim Escobar to a minor-league contract with a spring-training invite. You know the story with these no-risk pseudo-commitments. Teams sign interesting names to these contracts...
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2013 ZiPS Projections – Milwaukee Brewers
Dan Szymborski’s ZiPS projections, which have typically appeared in the pages of Baseball Think Factory, are being released at FanGraphs this year. Below are the projections for the Milwaukee Brewers....
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Daily Notes: Let’s Project Basically the Entire Brewers Rotation
Table of Contents Here’s the table of contents for today’s edition of Daily Notes. 1. FAN Projection Targets: Basically Every Brewers Starter 2. Action GIF: Mark Rogers’ Slider 3. SCOUT Leaderboards:...
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Tim Lincecum Needs to Learn How to Pitch, Not Throw
Tim Lincecum‘s resume contains the following items: 2 time Cy Young award winner, 4 time All-Star and twice World Series Champion. With all the achievements over the last 5 seasons, he was relegated to...
View ArticleMat Gamel’s Last Last Chance
Brewers first baseman Corey Hart will miss the next three to four months — or about six weeks of the regular season — as the former outfielder requires surgery to repair a meniscal tear on his right...
View ArticleWill There Be Another Ryan Braun?
I have a theory about front offices, and about baseball organizations in general. It seems to me that everybody’s trending in the direction of getting smarter about the game. There are fewer things...
View ArticleVetoed Trades, Part One
For at least three franchises, this offseason could have taken a very different path. When Justin Upton vetoed a trade to the Mariners, he altered the direction of Seattle, Arizona and Atlanta, at the...
View ArticleInjuries Equal Opportunity For Hunter Morris
In Milwaukee, Hunter Morris will battle former shortstop Alex Gonzalez and fringe big leaguer Taylor Green for the opening day nod at first base. On paper, it seems like the odds are in his favor....
View ArticleCarlos Gomez Extended — Will The Power Come With?
Carlos Gomez will be a Brewer for another four years, it looks like. With 3 year $24 million extension thru 2016 #Brewers have committed 4 years and $28.3 million to Carlos Gomez over next 4 seasons. —...
View Article2013 Positional Power Rankings: Third Base
Due to an unfortunate data error, the numbers in this story did not include park factors upon publication. We have updated the data to include the park factors, and the data you see below is now...
View ArticleA Snapshot of Team Finances: Bottom Tier
Here on the site, we’re currently doing a series called the Positional Power Rankings, going through each team’s strengths and weaknesses at each spot on the field. Well, this is also a positional...
View ArticleBrewers Find Starter, Lohse Finds Work
Monday morning, Dave Cameron posted his bottom half of the 2013 starting pitcher positional power rankings. Just going to go ahead and paste a few select excerpts: There’s a reason the team keeps...
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Framing the Way You Think About Framing
I nearly began this post with a story of how I arrived at the topic, involving Dave Cameron and email and Lucas Duda. Instead, I’ve chosen to begin this post by simply alluding to the story and moving...
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Just How Broken is John Axford, Really?
Monday afternoon, the Brewers were leading the Cubs 7-2 going into the bottom of the ninth. Brandon Kintzler took the mound, but after three straight batters reached base, he was replaced by Jim...
View ArticleJimmy Nelson’s Rising Stock
Does Jimmy Nelson have the best pure stuff in the Brewers organization? The answer is yes, or at least that’s what a source who has closely followed the right-handed pitcher’s career told me. And after...
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