As Crew ekes out win, Miley shares thoughts on Deadline
CHICAGO -- Last year, he predicted the Brewers would trade for Carlos Santana and Mark Canha weeks before they arrived in Milwaukee and helped carry the club to a division title. This year, with only a week to go before the July 30 Trade Deadline, Wade Miley’s crystal ball isn’t
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Brewers sign top Draft picks Payne, Burke
CHICAGO -- One is a speedy, 17-year-old outfielder from Southeast Texas who was one of the youngest players eligible for this year’s MLB Draft. The other is a 21-year-old, power-hitting first baseman from Northern California coming off the pinnacle of amateur baseball -- a College World Series win with the
Yelich to host annual charity event Thursday
This story was excerpted from Adam McCalvy’s Brewers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. CHICAGO – Christian Yelich learned a lot last year when he hosted his first annual “Home Plate Charity Concert” in Milwaukee, starting with this:
Too many cheesesteaks? '08 Brewers found out the hard way
Looking for the best cheesesteaks in Philadelphia? Try the visitors' clubhouse at Citizens Bank Park. CC Sabathia found that out in 2008 on his first trip to the Phillies’ home park, when the lefty was with the Milwaukee Brewers. Sabathia's brilliant second half after a midseason trade helped the Brewers
Mishaps plague young Crew at Wrigley: 'Our youth showed tonight'
CHICAGO -- It’s been a season to remember for right-hander Tobias Myers, but for he and some of the Brewers’ other young players, this was a night to forget. In a sloppy, 3-1 loss to the Cubs at Wrigley Field on Monday, Myers was burned by a balk, his own
Predicting the All-MLB Team in wake of the All-Star break
With the season's second half underway, it's once again time for our panel of MLB.com experts to take another stab at predicting which players will be worthy of a place on the All-MLB Team by the close of the year. The All-MLB Team presented by MGM Rewards has annually recognized
Bottom of lineup, bullpen heroics fuel Brewers' sweep of Twins
MINNEAPOLIS -- If you refer to a baseball team using the term “circus,” that’s usually a bad thing. So instead, let’s call the Brewers’ 8-7 victory over the Twins on Sunday a carnival of sorts. It had a little bit of everything and something for everyone, a celebration of the
Clutch hits in 12th inning propel 'relentless' Brewers
MINNEAPOLIS -- For 11 innings on Saturday, the Brewers hitters time and again came up empty with runners on base. But that just made the 12th inning that much sweeter. Joey Ortiz drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly as the Brewers erupted for five runs in the
How Crew defied expectations ... and what's next
This story was excerpted from Adam McCalvy’s Brewers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. MILWAUKEE -- It wasn’t a smooth road, but it is difficult to quibble with where the Brewers wound up at the All-Star break. The
Each team's prospect to watch in second half of season
With the 2024 MLB Draft in the rear-view mirror, it’s a convenient time to look at the scope of prospects across MLB’s organizations. Who should we be looking out for in the months to come? Here’s a look at one prospect to watch for each club during the rest of
Which teams will be buyers and sellers at the Trade Deadline?
The difference between a team buying or selling at the Trade Deadline can be a matter of just a few games in the standings. A winning streak or a losing streak in the week before the Deadline can be all it takes to push a team in one direction or
One second-half goal for every club
With the All-Star break over and the second half of the 2024 season beginning Friday, overlying goals have come into focus for all 30 MLB teams. Some clubs will make major moves at the July 30 Trade Deadline, going all in and dreaming of a World Series title. Others are
These are the top pitches of the first half of the season
Every pitch matters. That might be a simplistic analysis but it's the basic premise of Statcast's Run Value system, which helped determine some of the top pitches of the first half of the 2024 season. Run values look at the run impact of an event based on the runners on
These players will be key for their teams in the second half
The 2024 All-Star Game is behind us and the second half of the season looms. While much of the attention in the coming weeks will be about players on the move at the Trade Deadline, there are plenty of key players who will stay put and will have an outsized
6 former prospects who are breaking out
Not every prospect can be like Pirates phenom Paul Skenes, who went from No. 1 overall Draft pick to the National League’s starting pitcher in the All-Star Game in roughly a year’s time. For many prospects, it takes much longer to find their footing in the Majors. But just because
Contreras faces former batterymate in All-Star start
The 94th MLB All-Star Game featured triple-digit heat from various pitchers, some dazzling defensive plays across the diamond and plenty of big-time power. The Midsummer Classic, held at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, ended in a 5-3 final score as the American League avenged its 2023 loss and won
AL tops NL as MLB's best put on a show during 94th All-Star Game
ARLINGTON -- The blend was beautiful. Power pitching that overwhelmed the opposition, and power hitting that answered back. Established superstars shining on summer’s biggest stage, and emerging superstars making their presence known in front of an ample audience.
Here are our favorite '24 Draft picks -- one for each team
The 2024 MLB Draft wrapped up on Tuesday with 615 players selected over this year’s 20-round process. Now that we know where players are going (see you next time, mock drafts!), we can dive into which clubs might have gotten steals, which added potential superstars and which took some fun
Brewers draft Wisconsin high school arm on Day 3
MILWAUKEE -- The last time the Brewers drafted a player straight out of a Wisconsin high school was in 2010, a right-hander named Conor Fisk from Grafton, just north of Milwaukee. He wound up going to college, was drafted again by the Blue Jays four years later and made it