https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/page/202/?d=1enhttps://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/milwaukee-brewers-spring-training-position-battles-the-fifth-starter-r748/The Milwaukee Brewers have five pretty firmly established starting pitchers slated for their five rotation spots in 2023. Co-aces Corbin Burnes and Brandon Woodruff enter camp hoping to deliver something close to 400 combined innings. In the middle of the rotation, right-hander Freddy Peralta an...748Mon, 20 Feb 2023 13:16:01 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/what-the-brewers-offense-most-needs-to-change-in-2023-r742/Batting average has become a forgotten statistic in modern baseball and is no longer the main focus in evaluating a player. Since the concept of Moneyball came around, teams have focused on more robust statistics, such as weighted on-base average (wOBA) or weighted runs created plus (wRC+), rath...742Sun, 19 Feb 2023 15:49:01 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/brewers-by-the-jersey-numbers-23-39-corbin-burnes-r745/An unfortunate thing happened on the way to the laptop over the past 12 days. I didn't write any BBtJN pieces! With apologies to #43 Ethan Small, #41 Jason Alexander, #49 Thyago Vieira, #46 Bryse Wilson, #45 Thomas Pannone, and even #48 Colin Rea, life got in the way. I had some water damag...745Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:52:01 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/with-an-eye-on-july-brewers-sign-left-handed-reliever-justin-wilson-r746/If one player can be considered the model of the modern journeyman southpaw, it might be Justin Wilson. He's pitched for six teams in his 11 seasons, and the volatility of his performance has matched that of his employment. When right, he's dominant, with a high=spin, mid-90s fastball, a sharp c...746Sun, 19 Feb 2023 12:10:00 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/spring-training-memories-meeting-teddy-higuera-r744/Technically, this story is not mine to tell, but I have been given permission by the person that lived it to share it. Parts of the story may or may not be embellished for dramatic effect. I’ll let you, the reader, be the judge. It was a beautiful spring Arizona afternoon. The sun was shini...744Sat, 18 Feb 2023 17:05:02 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/friction-between-brewers-and-corbin-burnes-could-endanger-teams-contention-window-r743/“There’s no denying that the relationship is definitely hurt from what [transpired],” Burnes told reporters. The Brewers won their arbitration case against Corbin Burnes a day earlier, on Wednesday, February 15, giving the two-time All-Star a $10.01 million salary for 2023, not the $10.75 m...743Fri, 17 Feb 2023 19:12:01 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/should-the-brewers-extend-rowdy-tellez-r739/However, since Prince Fielder left the Brewers as a free agent following the 2011 season, the team has had a revolving door at first base. Only Eric Thames was the primary starter at the position for more than one season, per Baseball Reference. Not exactly the model of consistency you want to s...739Fri, 17 Feb 2023 16:17:01 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/pecota-projections-love-the-brewers-2023-starting-pitching-rotation-r738/PECOTA allows you to see a variety of projections if a player plays up to their highest or down to their lowest levels. Thus, looking at their 50th percentile stats is the "safest" play. But it's also fun to see what they could accomplish if they reached their 70th or 80th percentile figures. Le...738Fri, 17 Feb 2023 13:22:02 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/brewers-win-pyrrhic-victory-over-corbin-burnes-in-mlb-arbitration-case-r741/As Corbin Burnes understood it, the Brewers made the argument that he was "in the forefront of the reason why we didn't make the postseason last year" during the hearing earlier this week. That was the big takeaway from his polite but angry account of the process of salary arbitration, delivered...741Thu, 16 Feb 2023 18:52:52 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/do-luis-ur%C3%ADas-and-the-brewers-need-to-get-more-aggressive-early-in-counts-r737/I want to build this discussion of Luis Urías and his plan at the plate around earlier work this week at Brewer Fanatic, by Tim Muma and by Harold Hutchison. On Tuesday, Tim wrote a great piece about the potential that Rowdy Tellez could do more damage by taking a new tack at bat. On Wednesday,...737Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:09:19 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/former-brewer-eric-thames-retires-what-well-remember-about-his-milwaukee-renaissance-r736/The thing I'll always remember most about Eric Thames is an article that appeared on FanGraphs in May 2017. In it, Travis Sawchik detailed the way Thames reinvented himself as a player and matured as a person during his three-year sojourn in South Korea, where he was exiled after being unable to...736Wed, 15 Feb 2023 22:39:11 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/milwaukee-brewers/should-the-brewers-extend-luis-urias-r734/Meet Luis Urias, who in the last two full seasons has delivered an OPS+ of 111, highlighted by 39 homers, 42 doubles, and 122 RBI. Not too shabby, especially as he has either split time with Jace Peterson in the past or covered second base and shortstop. In other words, Luis Urias is, at worst,...734Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:11:00 +0000