Brock Beauchamp

This needs to be mentioned alongside this article: Woof.

The core of the 2023 Brewers, just as we all predicted.

Dammit, Wiemer! Swing harder!

Hey! A run!

It looked like the magic pixie dust was going to run out in that inning but Julio still had a reserve on hand. Now get him out of the game and hand it to the pen.

Teheran continues the tightrope walk for at least one more inning.

Over the past day or so, this tweet has really stuck in my head and I'm not sure what fixes can be done in the short-term. Calling up Frelick is an option but swapping in guys like Toro kinda feels like shuffling deck chairs. What would you do to fix this ailing offense?

Well, that was a pleasant surprise this morning. I went to bed with the Brewers behind and rather disgusted with baseball, only to wake up and discover they came back in late innings. Today will be a tough matchup: Gallen is a very good pitcher and I'm terrified Teheran is going to run out of magical pixie dust... but it's baseball. Rubber match day game at AmFam!

I was listening to MKE Tailgate this morning and turning over the A's potential move in my head a bit. The A's stadium is a dump and no one attends their games. To some extent, the same is true in Tampa. But the same cannot be said of Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and other small market teams. Their stadiums are nice/acceptable, their fan support is decent-to-good, and if you remove today's huge television revenue imbalance, it's hard to see teams picking up and moving in the future (which is a good thing, obviously). Over the past 30 years, almost every MLB team has received a new stadium and pretty much all of them are better long-term options than the abysmal general-use stadiums they replaced. If television money is restructured - and it almost seems impossible for that not to happen at this point - will we see team relocation basically end for the foreseeable future?

The last three columns are promising. Like we've all kinda seemed to agree on around here, MVP Yelich probably isn't coming back but Marlins Yelich might. Season Team Level GB/FB LD% GB% FB% IFFB% HR/FB IFH% BUH% Pull% Cent% Oppo% Soft% Med% Hard% 2013 MIA MLB 4.58 23.0% 63.2% 13.8% 0.0% 16.7% 8.2% 0.0% 32.0% 36.0% 32.0% 17.1% 48.6% 34.3% 2014 MIA MLB 3.42 21.2% 61.0% 17.8% 1.3% 11.5% 6.0% 50.0% 27.8% 40.9% 31.3% 15.8% 50.0% 34.2% 2015 MIA MLB 4.16 22.5% 62.5% 15.0% 0.0% 12.5% 5.2% 0.0% 31.7% 40.5% 27.7% 17.1% 49.9% 33.1% 2016 MIA MLB 2.82 23.4% 56.5% 20.0% 5.6% 23.6% 6.0% 100.0% 36.0% 35.1% 29.0% 17.5% 44.5% 38.0% 2017 MIA MLB 2.20 19.4% 55.4% 25.2% 2.5% 15.3% 4.2% 50.0% 33.3% 37.4% 29.3% 15.9% 48.8% 35.2% 2018 MIL MLB 2.20 24.7% 51.8% 23.5% 4.9% 35.0% 6.6% 33.3% 34.9% 38.1% 27.0% 14.5% 37.9% 47.6% 2019 MIL MLB 1.20 20.9% 43.2% 35.9% 7.5% 32.8% 6.2% 0.0% 39.3% 37.4% 23.3% 14.4% 34.8% 50.8% 2020 MIL MLB 1.70 19.4% 50.8% 29.8% 0.0% 32.4% 1.6% 0.0% 38.7% 33.1% 28.2% 8.1% 50.8% 41.1% 2021 MIL MLB 2.29 22.0% 54.4% 23.7% 2.9% 13.2% 7.7% 100.0% 35.3% 35.3% 29.4% 15.9% 49.1% 34.9% 2022 MIL MLB 2.55 18.4% 58.6% 23.0% 5.3% 14.7% 6.2% 33.3% 34.4% 35.3% 30.3% 13.9% 52.2% 33.9% 2023 MIL MLB 1.92 20.3% 52.4% 27.3% 7.8% 17.6% 5.1% 0.0% 33.2% 31.6% 35.3% 12.3% 44.4% 43.3%

Yeah, one has to adjust for era, especially in a 2013-2020 span. The first part of that span was dead ball, the second half juiced ball.

Last night's loss was ugly and the Brewers slipped into second place because the Reds (the Reds?!?!?!) refuse to lose.

The Brewers took care of business against the Pirates but now face a much stiffer challenge: the surprise first-place Diamondbacks. Two very good pitchers on the mound tonight, runs will likely be at a premium.

It was terrible. When Torii Hunter broke into the league, Kirby Puckett pulled him aside and taught him how to dive for a ball with his arms and face bent upwards so that the turf wouldn't tear off his skin. They moved away from that turf in the early 2000s, maybe 2003? And then Joe Mauer tore up his knee in something like his fifth career game. I ****ing hate turf.

This isn't something I'd be outraged about but I'm a firm believer in baseball being played on grass. New turf is much better than Astroturf but I'll never get the taste of the Metrodome out of my mouth and will always dislike artificial turf.

Happy Father's Day! The Crew has a chance to sweep the reeling Pirates and cast them further down the NLC standings... but the Reds refuse to lose right now and continue to nip at the Brewers' heels.

I meant that he’s probably due to start a rehab assignment in the next couple of weeks.

To be fair, I also kinda expected that with the increased offense this year, he’d end up around .800. Maybe his OPS+ wouldn’t change much but the raw numbers would bump a bit.

As much as I adore Rowdy, his player type is as fungible as they come. I never expected much from him and never saw him as more than a 2-ish win player with significant decline as he ages.

With this many teams hanging out .500, I think it's more likely than not one of them makes a small run and wins the division with no fewer than ~86 wins.

I disagree on the Cubs, I'd put them on par with the Pirates and ahead of the Cardinals. I went into the season low on the Cards and have only dropped them further, history be damned.

Are the Reds the biggest threat in the division? I thought they could be surprisingly decent if things clicked but I thought it’d come from the pitching side.

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Wade Miley is back and Brandon Woodruff might be ready to pitch soon. And the Brewers are in first place again! Let's keep it that way today.

Just as a frame of reference, I wanted to compare 2023 Yelich to 2020-2022 Yelich through the same number of games. 2023: through 65 games, he is slashing .269/.361/.430 2022: through 65 games, he slashed .238/.323/.375 2021: through 65 games, he slashed .244/.393/.380 2020: shortened season, in 58 games he slashed .205/.356/.430 There is definitely reason to be optimistic here but I see quite a bit of cross-over between those previous slashes, just in different years.