https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/page/100/?d=1enhttps://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/anatomy-of-an-at-bat-jared-koenig-halted-athletics-by-beating-jj-bleday-r2553/The Brewers headed into the seventh inning with a 5-3 lead over Oakland. After a single and stolen base by Zack Gelof, lefty Jared Koenig was tasked with getting the final out of the inning. His sixth pitch to Daz Cameron, a sinker in the heart of the strike zone, was battered into right field f...2553Sun, 25 Aug 2024 00:47:00 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/is-william-contreras-obsession-with-fastballs-hurting-the-brewers-r2551/William Contreras calls fastball variations more regularly than any other catcher in baseball outside of Yasmani Grandal. And at least Grandal has the excuse of Jared Jones' and Paul Skenes' elite fastballs to justify it. Contreras has some justification in that pitchers like Colin Rea, Frankie...2551Sat, 24 Aug 2024 11:49:01 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/should-the-brewers-extend-colin-rea-r2538/That’s the odyssey of Colin Rea. He’s gone from a usable back-of-the-rotation pitcher to a solid No. 3 pitcher, as has been detailed here on multiple occasions. He’s even become capable of dominating, going seven innings without allowing an earned run against the Guardians on Aug. 18 and against...2538Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:16:02 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/is-freddy-peralta-a-better-pitcher-with-gary-s%C3%A1nchez-behind-the-plate-r2548/Freddy Peralta has pitched to William Contreras in 22 of his 26 starts, but Thursday afternoon saw him paired with Gary Sánchez for the second outing in a row. It also became the third time this season that Peralta has allowed no more than one earned run in consecutive starts. After blankin...2548Fri, 23 Aug 2024 11:46:00 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/nick-mears-craig-yoho-roster-crunch-bullpen-dfa/Nick Mears is out of options. It's a huge part of why he was available at a relatively low price last month, when the Brewers swooped in and snared him from the Colorado Rockies in a trade before the deadline. Mears has warts, and although he also has good stuff that could eventually make him a...2547Thu, 22 Aug 2024 22:50:00 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/with-blake-perkins-taking-tyler-blacks-roster-spot-will-he-also-claim-regular-playing-time-for-brewers-r2546/The Brewers continue to convalesce as they approach September. On Thursday, they reinstated Blake Perkins from the injured list and optioned Tyler Black back to Triple-A Nashville. It's a minor disappointment that Black hasn't put together the pieces of his potentially valuable skill set in his...2546Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:15:23 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/lots-of-brewers-bullpen-bills-came-due-at-once-wednesday-night-all-that-matters-now-is-thursday-r2545/Sometimes, bullpen implosions really are like implosions--or explosions, even. They feel like the result of a rapid transition from potential energy to kinetic energy. Often, be it because of the makeup of a given relief corps or the pattern of usage a team falls into because of the flow of thei...2545Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:54:58 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/the-brewers-offense-needed-a-hitter-to-take-it-up-a-notch-william-contreras-did-r2543/This kind of power explosion was always within the range of possibilities for William Contreras. Early this year, he was one of the darlings of the new Statcast bat-tracking data released at Baseball Savant, because few players in baseball swing harder, and fewer still match that ability with th...2543Wed, 21 Aug 2024 14:54:00 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/tobias-myers-is-chasing-some-brewers-history-and-maybe-some-mlb-hardware-r2541/Here's what I wrote about a certain non-roster pitching project, just before camp opened. Monasterio and Colin Rea have each made legitimate impacts in 2023 and 2024. Monasterio rightly earned the Brewer Fanatic Top Rookie of 2023 award for what he delivered after he came up following a l...2541Wed, 21 Aug 2024 11:49:01 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/this-week-is-a-chance-for-brewers-to-finish-off-the-cardinals-as-a-thing-r2540/Exceptionalism is a funny thing. It can be very real, and very formidable. It's also, almost of necessity, fragile. For 100 years, stretching all the way back to when then-Cardinals executive Branch Rickey essentially invented the farm system as we know it, the St. Louis team has centered its ow...2540Tue, 20 Aug 2024 23:14:01 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/the-bright-side-of-christian-yelichs-back-surgery%E2%80%93and-yes-there-really-is-one-r2536/The Back Issue Christian Yelich has dealt with back issues before–with one or more stints on the disabled list or injured list in 2014, 2015, and 2021 before his two times being shelved in 2024. There was also a right oblique injury during his 2018 MVP season that sidelined him. That’s a...2536Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:24:02 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/brewers-postseason-playoff-odds-chances/When we last checked in on the Brewers playoff odds, on August 6th, the Brewers had a 62-49 record and a six-game lead in the Central division. They were headed into a tough part of their schedule, with ten out of their next 13 games against teams headed for the playoffs. The Brewers crushe...2539Tue, 20 Aug 2024 13:17:00 +0000