https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/page/107/?d=1enhttps://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 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/is-it-finally-time-for-everyone-to-appreciate-the-2024-milwaukee-brewers-r2537/Baseball offers multiple layers of enjoyment, whether it be through in-depth analysis, casual fandom or even watching from a coach's perspective. On a game-to-game basis, it’s understandable to feel frustrated with a player’s performance, a manager’s decisions, or the team's occasional bewilderi...2537Tue, 20 Aug 2024 11:48:00 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/post-back-injury-devin-williams-is-a-different-pitcher-in-two-different-ways-r2535/With an injury like the one that hampered Devin Williams over the offseason and stole the first half of the regular season from him, it's worth taking a close look at the stuff upon his return. There was no surgical intervention on the stress fractures in Williams's upper back; he just had to wa...2535Mon, 19 Aug 2024 23:04:01 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/with-playoff-bye-to-nlds-in-reach-heres-why-brewers-should-pursue-it-hard-r2533/Since the changes to the playoff format in 2022 that created a bye to the Division Series for each league's top two division winners, a handful of early-round upsets have happened. It's led some to wonder whether that break between the regular season and the start of a playoff run is beneficial...2533Mon, 19 Aug 2024 14:13:02 +0000