Brewers

Baseball fans and experts look to correlate "the numbers" to team success more than in any other sport. The statistical analysis over an entire season will often net expected results. However, those wins and losses don't always fall in line over shorter periods. This season, the Milwaukee Brewers' first ten games have the feel of something not adding up – and it could be a good thing in the long run.

To suggest Christian Yelich is a polarizing figure within Brewers fandom is an understatement. He posted two consecutive MVP-level seasons immediately followed by two disappointing seasons, with 2021 being even worse than his already disappointing 2020 campaign. Early in the 2022 season, we see a mix of those two Yelichs. Which will be the real Christian Yelich in 2022?

A quiet week in the draft world is not the worst thing. In fact, any draft noise in late April is usually injury-related. So we’ll take a week without big news as a good sign. There were, though, still three draft-related articles that I want to draw your attention to.

Coming off several uneven performances the Brewers were looking for a “get right “ series with the Pittsburgh Pirates a team they’ve dominated historically at Miller Park, er, American Family Field to the tune of a 127- 70 (64.4%) record entering play on Monday.

May 2 is fast approaching, with it coming roster decisions for the front office and manager, Craig Counsell. Due to the shortened Spring Training, the MLB Players Association and the owners group agreed to expand rosters to 28 through May 1, then to drop to the originally planned 26-man roster on May 2. Adding to the fun, Luis Urías is set to come back from the IL around the same timeframe.

Cy Young Corbin Burnes and workhorse Brandon Woodruff are the Milwaukee Brewers' pocket aces. Freddy Peralta has the stuff to be the third man in line, and Adrian Houser is often underrated; Eric Lauer has made a case that he should be the final arm in a "Big Three."

It’s a question that the universe has pondered, but this piece isn’t about Billy Jo Robidoux per se. Instead, it involves reminiscing about a simpler time. Once again, let’s take a spin in the DeLorean.

It might be good, it might be bad. It might be both, "mixed or smeared out in equal parts." The Milwaukee Brewers are owners of living and/or dead bats.

The Brewers traveled to Philly after sweeping the Pirates and played a three-game set against the Phillies. 

Brady Clark was a perfect Milwaukee Brewer. He was a gritty, blue-collar battler (overblown adjectives intended) who never would have been a major leaguer if talent was the only deciding factor. His potential was so underwhelming that he wasn't even drafted out of college. But he would spend parts of nine seasons in the majors, including four with Milwaukee.

It is often easy to fail to appreciate Josh Hader. Rarely have Milwaukee Brewers fans had to worry when he comes into a game, and he is enjoying one of the greatest starts to a career in Major League Baseball history.

We’re another week closer to the mid-July draft, and activity is starting to pick up. As we get into May, the focus begins to tighten. While the picture still appears very broad to almost everyone, the tea leaves begin to drop occasionally. But that’s the fun of drafts: It’s up to you whether you want to believe them or not.