Author: CoreyGreen_

May has been ugly. This Brewer offense has been ugly. Historically ugly. Before the season I predicted the Brewers would win over 90 games, and honestly, I feel great about that prediction. I spent yet another entire day on Baseball Reference and Stathead collecting a bunch of numbers that while at first look horrible, are actually a reason to believe in these Brewers. How bad have they been? Nearly everything about this offense is bad. With runners in scoring position, they are last in the National League in batting average and slugging percentage. So not only are they not hitting…

Change comes to baseball the way water erodes a rocky landscape: very slowly through time. One adaptation in baseball recently is teams having their best hitter bat second in the batting order. The Brewers have been no exception to this, having Christian Yelich in the two hole for the majority of the last two seasons. But to start the 2021 season, Craig Counsell decided to bump him back to the three spot, with disastrous results. Not that Yelich’s numbers are suffering, as he does have an On-Base Percentage of .406 from the three spot this year. However the offense itself…

The wait is over. Opening Day is finally here. But how much weight does Opening Day actually carry? While it might be a holiday for some of us, you’re bound to come across an uncultured peasant who says stuff like, “Opening Day doesn’t matter. There are too many games in a season. One game is meaningless.” Can the Opening Day matter? If you feel the need to defend the importance of Opening Day, you really only need to look at the 2017 Milwaukee Brewers. They lost a nail-biter to the Colorado Rockies, 5-7. Fast forward to October and they’re on…

Should the Brewers trade Josh Hader? Maybe, but definitely not right now. For a Josh Hader trade to take place right now it would either mean the Brewers are in sell mode one year after throwing the bank at Christian Yelich, or it would need to involve the Brewers receiving major league ready players. The reason it is unlikely to happen because two buyers rarely trade with each other. Trades involving players of Hader’s caliber usually involve one team trying to win now and one team building for the future. Why do people keep bringing up a Hader trade? Josh…

Baseball does not like evolution. While the gameplay of football and basketball have changed drastically over the last century, you could probably go back to 1920 and watch a game of baseball that looks exactly like a game played in 2020. That’s just the way the gatekeepers want it.  Rule Changes Quite honestly, that’s fine by me. It’s cool that, for the most part, you can directly compare the stats of Babe Ruth to Mike Trout. You can’t do that in football or basketball. If you took the stats of the worst quarterback in the NFL in 2020 and put…

Any fan of a small market team will tell you the same thing: Big networks don’t cover them enough. So, when a major network finally talks about your small market team, it’s a good day. Then, of course, there are the days where you can tell they don’t know what to say. They don’t know much about your team. They’re just saying clichés. It just feels like a kick in the pants. That’s what brings me here. One cliché I’ve heard over and over throughout the years by analysts who don’t follow the Milwaukee Brewers the same way I do:…