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My post season blogging was pretty much a disaster not that things would be too pleasant to write about.  The Brewers collapsed again and now, with just three games left to play, the Brewers find themselves still two games back with three to play despite a three game skid by the Cubs.  Even worse, they […]

It doesn’t look like the Cubs are going to make this easy.  The Brewers won their last three games, and all that meant was the Cubs didn’t pick up any games because they’ve won four straight.  Still, the Brewers have a 3 1/2 game lead (three in the loss column) and if I had to […]

The Brewers continue to play extremely well at home.  With the win today, they won their 30th home game of the season which is the most in all of baseball.  And with the three game sweep over the Astros, the Brewers have won eight of their nine games in this most recent home stand.
And they’ve […]

Good for Prince.  The Brewers slugger has a huge lead in the National League with 26 homeruns now and the next closest guy is Adam Dunn with 20.  Throw in a league leading 59 RBIs and a .379 OBP and you’re looking at a guy who’s an early MVP candidate.  And the voters have rewarded […]

The Brewers record in their last ten games isn’t very pretty (3-7) but they have won two of their last three and they’ve done it when the rest of the division is cooling off.  The end result is a 6 1/2 game lead over the Astros and the Cubs with four more games left in […]

The bad news is, the Brewers no longer have the best record in baseball.  The good news is, they have an eight game lead in the NL Central.  A tough Mets team did a number on the Brewers over the weekend and while you never like to lose a series, it’s the first time since […]

The Brewers took care of business this week and took two of three against the struggling Cubs.  The pen was awesome in the first game and then they got a good start from Jeff Suppan in the other win and while the wheels fell of the wagon in the finale, two out of three isn’t all bad.  
On Monday, […]

Things didn’t get off to a good start for the Brewers in their three game series with the Astros, but I’ll definitely take the two wins at the back end.  On Friday, Greg Aquino gave up a grand slam to Craig Biggio in the top of the ninth and while Prince Fielder went yard with a three run shot […]

The Brewers got it done in their two game series with the Pirates, taking both, improving their record 9-6 and moving into first place in the process.  In both games the offense did their job and scored seven runs a piece.  The pitching was mixed, but a wins a win.
Bill Hall was the hitting star […]

The pitching has to get better or the Brewers are going to be stuck right around the .500 mark all season.  Fortunately, that may be good enough to win the NL Central, but I’d rather just see some better hurling and a some more winning.  This was pretty evident in the split this week with […]

A rain out made this a two game series as Friday’s game was postponed.  Then Saturday’s game went nicely with a 3-2 win with Jeff Suppan picking up his first win as a Brewer.  He gave up just two runs on six hits with five strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings.  Francisco Cordero threw a perfect […]

The Brewers got it done in two of their three games against the Marlins this week.  In the first game, Jeff Suppan was knocked around for five runs (four earned) on eight hits and a walk with four strikeouts in six innings. He dropped to 0-2 on the season with the loss.  Geoff Jenkins went […]

The Brewers got off to a rough start in this series before they won the final game yesterday to escape with at least one win.  On Friday, Dave Bush was knocked around for six runs in six innings in a 9-3 loss.  Corey Hart hit a solo homerun while Kevin Mench drove in two in […]

Down 5-1, things looked grim as the Brewers entered their eighth inning.  Then three runs over the next two innings put a win within reach before the comeback fell just short and the Brewers lost 5-4.  Jeff Suppan had a nice start go to waste when Carlos Villanueva gave up three runs in the top […]

The Brewers were down 3-2 until Kevin Mench hit a two run homerun to give the Brewers the lead.  Combine that with some great pitching out of the pen and the end result is a 4-3 Brewers win.
Chris Capuano wasn’t bad and despite not getting a decision, he struck out six in five innings.  The […]

Man, this would have been cool to see. Ben Sheets completely shut down the Dodgers offense and held them to a mere two hits in a complete game.  It only took him 104 pitches to go through the game and while he only struck out three, he didn’t walk a single batter.  Simply an awesome […]

Jeff Sackman wrote up a five questions Brewers preview over at the Hardball Times today.  He talks about Bill Hall’s move to center as well as the team’s defense.  He then closes things out with a look at third base prospect Ryan Braun.

The Brewers added another arm yesterday when they traded Brady Clark to the Dodgers for Elmer Dessens.  With a glut of outfielders, this move makes sense and the Brewers got a fair pitcher in return.  Dessens will start the season for the Brewers as a long reliever and Bob Melvin said that he’ll fill a […]

It was announced the other day that second base prospect Rickie Weeks will be at the top of the lineup again for the Brewers.  Not a bad move although Weeks will have to work on cutting down his strikeouts.  There’s no doubt that he’s a guy who can score upwards of 120 runs, he just […]

Tim Brown at Yahoo recently profiled Brewers young slugger Bill Hall.  It talks about how Hall was probably misused early in his career as well some guys that he compares favorably too because of his versatility.  Good read.

Alright, we’re getting closer to the real season and it looks like I’m not the only one excited about all of the young talent the Brewers have.  In the column by Evan Grant, he touches on everything from Doug Melvin’s approach to how Jeff Suppan fits into the rotation.  Nice read here.

In a great column by Brewers blogger Jeff Sackman, the Brewers were shown to have the best bench in the National League.  Good stuff here and the column is a great read.

The Brewers were the highlight today of Baseball Prospectus’ recent Hope and Faith series and Will Carroll tackles the question of what the Brewers have to do to win the World Series.  He touches on the Brewers very solid and young infield as well as taking a look at several of the team’s prospects.  Good […]

Baseball Prospectus recently interviewed Reid Nichols, the Brewers director of player development the past five years.  The interview touches on the state of the Brewers farm system as well as how Nichols got around to taking the Brewers job.  Nice read.

Here’s solid article about Ben Sheets and how he’s developing a change up.  Man, if he could pick up a third pitch it’d be huge.  He’s obviously an ace already but this could put him into the elite tier of pitchers.

Not a bad start for one of the Brewers top prospects.  Ryan Braun had a monster game in which he homered twice and drove in seven runs in a 14-8 win over the Athletics.  Oddly they other seven Brewer runs were all driven in by different hitters   Vinny Rottino also homered for the Brewers.
Claudio Vargas […]

Price Fielder said he wasn’t completely happy with how 2006 went.  Trying to get a jump on the 2007 season, he’s showed up to camp early after he saw several other position players reporting early.  Click on the link for a nice profile on Fielder and some comments about him from Ned Yost.

Ned Yost recently stated that he’d like to see Bill Hall play centerfield in 2007. Hall spent most of his time at shortstop in 2006 but J.J. Hardy is listed as the starting shortstop on the depth chart right now.  The guy who will probably get the short end is Brady Clark, who at least […]

It seems like everyone thinks the Brewers will be the surprise team of 2007.  If everyone thinks that, does it mean they won’t really be a surprise?  Face it, the Brewers have been bad for some time so it’s for fans to expect to much but when you combine some developing talent along with a […]

ESPN.com’s Buster Olney recently wrote up an interview he had with Bill Hall on Olney’s blog.  He asks Hall about everything from what he’ll be doing with all of that money he just signed for as well as what his favorite position is on the field.  There’s a lot of good stuff in the interview […]