So Ken Macha is the new Brewers manager.
Moneyball has been out long enough that you’d think baseball’s front offices would have learned not to hire Billy Beane’s refuse–especially his ex-field managers.
It’s crystal clear that Beane’s skippers are little more than figureheads for the giant Sabermetric algorithm that runs the Oakland Athletics. On everything from lineups [...]
The Mets just fell 9-6 in extra innings to a Cubs team that has it all sewn up, and the Brewers beat the Pirates to pull them into a tie for the NL Wild Card with 4 games to play.
Yikes. I don’t know what’s worse for the Mets–the near certainty that they’ll have to pitch [...]
After succumbing to a four-game sweep by the Phillies, the Brewers fired manager Ned Yost–despite having a share of the wild card lead and a mere 12 games left to play.
Field managers are such conservative decision-makers–operating 99% of the time within rigid if not, you know, “correct” conventional wisdom–that nothing they do on the field [...]
Every no-hitter is fuzzy.
So C.C. Sabathia throws a one-hitter. Good for him, another feather in his 9-0 run with the Brewers.
Then a minor controversy erupts after the Brewers appealed a fifth inning call in which an infield dribbler by Pirates 1B Andy LaRoche was ruled a base hit even though Sabathia flubbed the play. The [...]
