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Some in-depth (or not) analyses regarding the production of Brewers' players, hopefully sparking discussions about their performance.

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Team Payroll and Winning the World Series

The 2024 Brewers season ended with a bite from the Big Apple, and as the playoffs roll toward the concluding World Series, one thing is apparent--while money cannot buy happiness, it does seem pretty good at buying championships. The one last hope of all the small-market teams is the Cleveland Guardians, who currently trail the New York Yankees in the ALCS, 3 games to 1. Depending on where you look (Baseball-Reference, USA Today, spotrac, the remaining teams rank 1st/2nd (New York Yankees),
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The 2024 Brewers and Speed Unit

Introducing Speed Unit I previously looked at how aggressive or not the Brewers have been this year at taking the extra base. But that doesn't tell the whole story, as it does not account for stolen bases. And I have a few more questions about some of these baserunning statistics. As mentioned before, the baserunning values listed on Baseball Savant are: More on the stats at Tom Tango's blog. Fangraphs has their own version of baserunning value which is calculated using wei
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Isolated Slugging, Exit Velocity, and Bat Speed

Introduce ISO Last time, I looked at how well a basic calculation like Speed Unit can compare to an in-depth statistic like Ultimate Base Running. It turns out that it does pretty well. How about bat speed and exit velocity? I have been told that Isolated Slugging is a is a crude measure of ball speed, but that was before Statcast was around. Isolated slugging is calculated as (2B + 2x3B + 3xHR)/AB, or SLG - AVG. Is that true? How about some other hitting statistics? How well can we es
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The Brewers are Fast but not Aggressive

Full disclosure: I'm not sure I have any real conclusions on this topic, I just had some analysis I wanted to share and virtually "think out loud." Raw data from Baseball Savant: Yearly Baserunning Value Total Baserunning Value Baserunning Value The Brewers have built an impressive and speedy roster, led by Garrett Mitchell, Jackson Chourio, Blake Perkins, and Brice Turang -- all with a sprint speed of over 29 feet per second. That value is calculated by Baseball Savant
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