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Stathead -- the folks at Sports Reference, the people behind the incomparable Baseball Reference -- is exceptionally powerful, but slicing and dicing data can be frustrating. This is the output of the work I did for this morning's column, as you can see, there's no way to derive game result at that level, so yes, I had to go one-by-one through the no-decision games to come up with a record. That wasn't fun, but when I noticed that the Brewers were struggling more as the strikeout totals diminish
Fernando Vina squints in the spring sun as he faces down Texas’ Ken Hill. Vina chops his bat twice, then readies for Hill’s pitch…fastball…just a bit outside. The 1997 season was the last time the Brewers had a regular DH. Dave Nilsson started that April 1st game and led the team with 54 games at DH that season.
Now 25 years later as the Brewers prepare to re-enter the Baseball world where pitchers pitch and hitters hit, how prepared are we to maximize our offense? What will be the Bre
Popularized by Kurt Russell's portrayal of Herb Brooks in Miracle, the title of this, my debut column for Brewer Fanatic, is something that occurred to me considering not just Luis Urias' quad injury, but also the myriad lower body injuries that have plagued the Milwaukee Brewers in recent years. Let's look at some of the recent highlights:
Luis Urias' quad (last year and this!) Willy Adames' quad. Christian Yelich's kneecap. Travis Shaw's ankle. Rowdy Tellez' knee. Dan "Big Rhinelander" Vo
In Saturday's non-televised game against the Texas Rangers, infielder Luis Urías exited early after injuring himself while running the bases. Reports came in quickly that Urías strained his left quadriceps muscle. After the game, manager Craig Counsell told reporters in Arizona that they'd know more about the severity of the injury come Sunday morning after some tests were performed. The results of those efforts ended up being that Urías will be out at least two weeks which puts his Opening Day
One of the key aspects of this new site is that it extends the concept of community beyond posts, threads, and forums. We have status updates, we have reactions, we have follower lists, we have much more of a social media model (without the trolling and general awfulness) but at the very core of our concept of community is our user blogs.
Every user, once they register and post two pieces of content (comments, status updates, or threads) “graduate” to the Verified Member group, which opens
Dear BrewerFan.net users, welcome to the new Brewer Fanatic!
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Welcome to the latest entry into my Tips & Tricks series! In this brief post, I’ll quickly run through another new-to-us feature, “Following”. This will allow you to track and follow the content of people and content you like throughout the website.
Essentially, there are three aspects to following what you enjoy on the site: following categories, following content, and following individuals. I’ll run through each aspect and how each can be useful to you and improve how you find your fa
Welcome to the brief rundown of our newest feature, achievements! I have spent a rather unhealthy amount of time developing it for the site. I hope you enjoy experiencing it as much as I enjoyed building it.
Achievements, or awards, or gamification… you’ve probably run into it before in other avenues of your digital life. Achievements are most common (and were largely born out of) the console video game world, beginning on the Xbox platform in the mid-2000s.
Basically, it boils down to
As opposed to the previous default state of the site, you may want to set a custom feed as your Brewer Fanatic landing page. It's that useful. Instead of having to click through the (kinda insanely large now) site, you can tailor a feed to show basically whatever you want: select authors, topics you've followed, fellow users, unread content only... the list goes on.
First, to find your personal feed, near the top right of the screen you will see a newspaper icon in the red bar below your us
Brewer Fanatic Tips & Tricks, Part One: Tables! With this series of blog entries, I'm going to try to cover some of the features of the new site in a few paragraphs. Using the old site, as I'm sure many of you are aware, tables were basically unusable. That has changed! I'll tackle B-Ref tables quickly in this post but you can do similar things with FanGraphs or other sites that use table data (which is how almost all stat sites display their content). First, pop on over to Corbin Burnes's B
Just noticed something cool... Brewer Fanatic is now operating at about the same numbers BrewerFan was in 2019. That's a *huge* step up from the past 2+ years.
Adamas to Third?? & Other Topics
if Turang is considered ready with the bat, why wouldn’t the Brewers move Adamas to third. This would allow Turang to play his natural position and frankly be more comfortable, which also ought to help his bat. This seems like a very “Brewers like” move.
Other topics
I believe the banning of the shift will really help Yellich. It seems the number of hard hit balls by Yellich to short center will change from 4-3 outs from short right-center into base hits.
Catcher- I would like to see the team bring back Omar Narviez and pair him with Feliciano. I think Narviez’s OPS will jump with the ban of the shift for the same reason as Yellich, and believe the staff respects his defensive and pitch calling abilities.
With some reinvestment in the pen, combined with a May call up of Frelich and a deal for a veteran or two at the deadline and the Brewers have a shot at making a significant impact in the ‘23 playoffs.
I say get some fresh bodies in the clubhouse and mix up the soup. Do the trades down below and start a bunch of rookies. Trade hiura and rowdy for some prospects or more bullpen arms or a solid bench piece. Hopefully save up some money to pay woody. Lose a lot of power but gain a ton of on base machines.
Make some trades to reshape our infield. Not sure if all of the other players from the trades are getting raises but have left room in the budget for this. Also look to extend woodruff and lauer. Also I think Swanson is a much better all around hitter. The trades are hopefull obviously but all check out on the trading website. Thanks and ready for this to get blown to shreds lol.