Disciples of Uecker

There are times in baseball games when a bunt makes sense. When a team needs one run to tie a game, when a poor hitter is up to the plate. In these situations, a successful bunt almost surely increases a team’s chances to win, and… [More]

Donald Zackary Greinke has burst into the second half of the season with alacrity. Since his 13th start (6 IP, 2 ER against Cincinnati on July 8th), Milwaukee’s 90th game of the season, Greinke has thrown 67.1 innings with a 2.41 ERA, striking out 73… [More]

The Brewers come into today, August 24th, with a record of 78-53, a .595 winning percentage and the franchise’s first ever double-digit lead. Nine years ago, on this very same date, the Brewers were 40 games below .500, at 44-84, 27.5 games behind the St…. [More]

The Brewers are 22-3 in their last 25 games. What else needs to be said? In the interest of full, complete analysis, I suppose we could point out that the Brewers have probably been a little bit lucky to win so many one-run games (27-15),… [More]

The Chicago Cubs have fired general manager Jim Hendry. The unceremonious dumping of Hendry as his team slumps to a fifth place finish despite the largest payroll in the division by some $25 million underscores the successes of the early Hendry era. From Hendry’s promotion… [More]

For a farm system left without any top talent after the trades of Brett Lawrie, Jake Odorizzi, Lorenzo Cain, and Alcides Escobar, Wily Peralta’s 2011 season has been a revelation. Peralta has notched 134 strikeouts in 132 innings between Double-A and Triple-A, including 17 strikeouts… [More]

Robin Yount was in the Brewers broadcast in the sixth inning of Sunday’s game against the Pirates, and friend of the blog Carson Cistulli was kind enough to record the audio. Specifically, the two discuss Bert Blyleven’s Hall of Fame induction, and something about a… [More]

Although the apple of Brewers fan’s eyes over the last month or so has been Yuniesky Betancourt’s white-hot bat, he’s not the only previously-underperforming Brewers infielder to make a big impact over Milwaukee’s crazy hot streak of late. Casey McGehee has been on a tear… [More]

Entering the All-Star Break, the Brewers somehow managed to blow not one but two leads of six runs. Perhaps it isn’t fair to characterize the entire Brewers season by those two games, but outside of John Axford, the Brewers bullpen failed to carry its load…. [More]

So far, Disciples of Uecker has worked pretty well as a small operation, but in the interest of providing the best Brewers coverage at least daily and perhaps more often, I would like to add some more contributors here at Disciples of Uecker. For those… [More]