Disciples of Uecker

What a wonderful day off on Monday — a nice opportunity to let Wily Peralta‘s dominant outing sink in, but also to step away from Wild Card insanity for a moment. Now that’s that. The Brewers begin their final run of the season, a grueling… [More]

Wily Peralta made one of the best starts of the Brewers season Sunday against the Mets, firing eight shutout innings with just two hits and a walk allowed, striking out five. Peralta has always had some level of tout from the prospect evaluators, at least… [More]

There is a new narrative overtaking the 2012 Brewers’ season, displacing our grave concerns of April and May. Gone are those Milwaukee nine of the replacement breed; our beloved club now carries their best bats. After warming throughout the season, the Brewers’ offense scored 203… [More]

With rosters expanded in September, the Brewers have slowly been adding pieces over the past few days. Eric Farris was promoted to replace Cody Ransom over the weekend, and as we reported on Sunday, Brandon Kintzler was added to the bullpen. Now, with the minor… [More]

In the 2011 National League, I counted 71 pitchers that worked 100+ innings primarily as starters (i.e., more than 50% of their appearances occurred in games started). As you probably deduced during that sentence, that’s notably fewer pitchers than 16 full-time five-man rotations would require…. [More]

The Brewers continued their roster cutdowns on Sunday, as the team announced they’re optioning Wily Peralta, Mark Rogers, and Disciples of Uecker favorite Michael Fiers: #Brewers today option pitchers Mike Fiers, Mark Rogers and Wily Peralta to Triple-A @nashvillesounds. — John H. Steinmiller (@jstein1981) March… [More]

There is an old saying in baseball that a team can never have too much pitching. Anyone who has followed any team for  a year or two can readily attest that no matter how set one thinks a team’s rotation or bullpen is for an… [More]

AAA – Nashville Sounds The Sounds have gone 8-4 through their first 12 games. The big force on offense has been 27 year old RF Brendan Katin, with 4 HR accounting for his .667 slugging percentage in 27 ABs. Angel Salome has only played in… [More]