Baseball Historians

Minor league guru John Sickels recently wrote up a prospect retrospective on Ben Sheets.  Good reading and it’s always interesting to see where these guys came from.

Beyond the Boxscore recently posted their Brewers preseason preview. It’s a great, sabermetrically slanted analysis of the team and I like the final conclusion where it says that the 2007 Brewers will be better then the 2006 Brewers.  Author Jeff Sackman (a Brewers blogger) does indicate that the division should be better and while he […]

Jeff Sackman recently penned a great column at the Hardball Times on the Bill Hall signing.  Good stuff here and his final conclusion is that as more and more teams sign their arbitration eligible players to longer term deals, the free agent market is going to shrink, which means premiums for the players who actually […]

This is a little encouraging.  The Brewers made a solid commitment to their slugging shortstop yesterday when they signed Bill Hall to a four year, $24 million deal.  By doing this, one of the bigger arbitration cases in all of baseball has now been settled.
After a solid 2005 campaign, Hall broke out and hit 35 […]

Baseball America recently unveiled their list of the top ten Brewers prospects.  The Brewers are top heavy with pitching with four of the top five being pitchers. 
First on the list is right hander Yovani Gallardo, who was the team’s second round pick back in 2004.  Gallardo was very good down in High A, got promoted, […]

The Brewers avoided arbitration with catcher Johnny Estrada today when they signed him to a one year, $3.4 million deal.  Estrada is the man behind the plate this year and his career has been kind of mixed.  He was very good in 2004, not good at all in 2005 then better in 2006. 
PECOTA sees something […]

Right handed pitching prospect Mark Rogers, the Brewers first round pick in 2004,  may miss the entire 2007 season after having shoulder surgery earlier this month.  Rogers spent most of his time last year at High A and had mixed results.  He struck out a ton of guys (96 in 71 innings) but he also […]

The Brewers signed right handed starting pitcher Claudio Vargas to a one year, $2.5 million deal and in the process, both sides will avoid arbitration.  Pegged as a fourth or fifth starter, Vargas had a solid season for the Diamondbacks in 2006.  He struck out 123 in 16 2/3 and he has a 4.83 ERA.  […]

While one of my favorite publications, the Baseball Prospectus Annual, hasn’t yet come out, the website has released their PECOTA projections.  PECOTA cards to fun to look at so I thought it’d be worthwhile checking out first basemen Prince Fielder’s PECOTA card to see what we find.
The first thing you have to like is the […]