Gazing at Shiny Objects
This isn’t one of those, “I know better than others about how to build the Milwaukee Brewers” posts. No–far from it. I will admit straight up that I don’t know the best course the team should trod on its way back to winning baseball. But I do have some preferences, and a major tenet is [...]
What’s $5 Million Worth?
With his second trip to the All Star game now certain, Brewers RF Corey Hart just added a few million dollars to his 2011 salary. Who knows what he will demand in arbitration this coming off-season, but my guess is around $8 million. That’s a shiny nickel, to be sure. But I think the Brewers [...]
Ryan Braun is Magic
At least Braun was in the bottom of the eighth on Friday night. With the Brewers trailing the hated Cubs 2-1, the Milwaukee left-fielder came to the plate against CHI reliever Aaron Heilman. He could have just come up there hacking and slashing, which is what the Brewers are known for. But instead, Braun took [...]
Rope-a-Dope
The Milwaukee Brewers are “rope-a-doping” their way to wins the past couple of games. They were dominated and totally shut down by by PIT’s Ian Snell on Wednesday and by AZ’s Max Scherzer (whose name sounds like it belongs to a German philosopher) on Thursday. But the Crew worked the count enough to force the [...]
Packing the Van and Facing the Facts
The local paper in Nashville has done a story about Milwaukee Brewers prospect Mat Gamel noting his issues fielding the ball. Or, more precisely, throwing it accurately across the diamond from his position at Third Base. I have seen and heard a number of accounts downplaying this situation because “they are just throwing errors”, as [...]
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