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Manny Parra: A Lesson in Baseball Mortality

Today, Manny Parra was non-tendered by the Milwaukee Brewers and became a free agent. Not overly shocking, considering his recent performance. It’s also not terribly uncommon in the baseball world,…Read More

It’s Unfair to Blame Ron Roenicke for 2012

As a game, baseball is unfair.  Not just on the field, but on the business end as well.  Sometimes, heads have to roll.  One Brewers coach already did a Louis XVI earlier this season, bullpen coach…Read More

Deadline Passes, Brewers Stay Silent

In the weekend leading up to the Trade Deadline, all signs pointed to the Brewers opening the floodgates and letting go of whatever contract money they could in order to rebuild for the future. Doug Melvin…Read More

Life after Zack Greinke

Well, as of lately, it became more and more apparent that Zack Greinke’s Milwaukee Brewer days were coming to a close. The few teams that had a heavy interest in him were the Atlanta Braves, the…Read More

Don’t Call it a Comeback: Milwaukee’s Quiet Climb

There’s no other way to describe it: this season has been rough. OK, maybe there are several ways to describe this season: dissapointing frustrating infuriating depressing unbelievable Regardless…Read More

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Royce, Yuni, and Suppan: The All-Brewers We Won’t Miss Team of the 2000′s

Before a franchise turn-around in the past few seasons, the 2000′s were a rough decade for the…Read More

Brew Crew Online: Episode 12

Welcome again to Brew Crew Online. In episode 12 (make sure to click on it!), Colin and I look at the…Read More

Where the Brewers stand at the break

Well, it could be worse, by not by much. The Milwaukee Brewers’ 2012 season so far is not what…Read More

Recap on Tap: Brewers 5, Astros 3

The Milwaukee brewers go on break for a few days, and they left the first half of the season on a high…Read More

Previewing the Brewers-Reds Series #2

Tonight will mark the Milwaukee Brewers‘ (33-39) second series of the season with the Cincinnati Reds…Read More

Brewers’ starting pitching waiting on offense, bullpen

Just a few years ago, you would have never heard anyone saying that the Brewers have great starting pitching,…Read More

Recap On Tap: Brewers 6, Twins 2

How about that? Winning two games in a row sure is helpful, especially considering we haven’t been…Read More

The Brewers’ bullpen: consistently inconsistent

Other than Zack Greinke, none of the Brewers starters have factored in many decisions this year. That…Read More

Recap on Tap: Cubs 8, Brewers 2

Ouch. Well, the only positive thing that we can say from this one-sided affair is that Marco Estrada…Read More

Veras proving trade was a bad call

If you recall, I wrote a post a few months ago about the offseason trade between the Brewers and Pirates,…Read More

Assessing the bullpen damage done by Colorado

So clearly we’ve found a problem this early. The bats are still awakening, the starting pitching…Read More

Narveson to DL / McClendon, Peralta called up

Well, that was fast. I certainly didn’t think 14 games into the season we would already have an…Read More

Brewers’ Glaring Weakness Is Found in the Middle Relief

Four games into the season is no time to start panicking, but it can give glimpses of what is to come. We…Read More

Reasons Why 2012 is Huge: Part Two

With a little more than a week to go til the Brewers’ home opener against the Cardinals, there…Read More

Filling out the bullpen

  We’re reaching the dog days of Spring Training, as Opening Day is less than two weeks away.…Read More