Podcasting the Cubs 24 Comments
Before gallivanting off to the hinterlands of Molina-esque interwebs, Berselius recorded a podcast with longtime reader, sometime commenter sitrick2. We talked the Cubs for about an ...
Brewers and Phillies prepare offers to keep Greinke and Hamels 100 Comments
The Brewers are willing to offer Zack Greinke around $100 million over 5 years while the Phillies are prepared to offer Cole Hamels an equally large contract extension. Greinke and ...
In Defense Of Trade Value 33 Comments
UPDATE: Edwin put this better in one paragraph than I could in many paragraphs so here's his comment on why we typically overvalue our own players and undervalue others.
I think ...
Series Preview: Chicago Cubs (18-36) at Milwaukee General Hospital (24-30) 96 Comments
I don't have much time today, so this will be a short preview. The Brewers are in bad shape, with several players (Chris Narveson, Mat Gamel, Marco Estrada, Alex Gonzalez, various ...
Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers (1-2) at Chicago Cubs (1-2) 57 Comments
The Brewers dropped their opening series to the Cardinals, losing to Jaime Garcia and Lance Lynn in three relatively high-scoring games. The Cubs, meanwhile, did their best to try ...
Series Preview: Arizona Diamondbacks (94-68) vs Milwaukee Brewers (96-66) 30 Comments
Milwaukee is already up 1-0 in this series but these things take too damn long for me to write to have this up before that happened (laughing). It’s hard to believe that there ...
Series Preview: Iowa Cubs of Chicago (42-60) at Milwaukee Brewers (54-49) 131 Comments
Team Matchups
NL ranks in parens
Cubs
Brewers
wOBA
.316 (7th)
.322 (6th)
UBR
-11.6 (16th)
-3.6 (13th)
UZR
-17.7 (13th)
4.7 (5th)
SP FIP
4.07 (10th)
3.71 (7th)
RP FIP
4.05 ...
Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers (38-28) at Iowa Cubs of Chicago (25-39) 262 Comments
I blinked, and suddenly the Brewers are on top of the NL Central. They’ve won eight of their last ten games and should win a few more in this series.
Team Overviews
As always, ...
NL Central Questions & Answers: Milwaukee Brewers 62 Comments
Throughout the week we’re going to be posting some Q&A’s with other NL Central bloggers about the upcoming season. Berselius has written some nice previews for ...
NL Central Preview: Milwaukee Brewers 13 Comments
Last Year:
The Brewers finished in third place in the NL Central with a 77-85 record. They had the second-best offense in the NL with a team .334 wOBA, trailing only the surprising ...
Why Matt Garza’s trade value is higher than I think 40 Comments