Source: www.brewcrewball.com --- Saturday, September 30, 2017
Answering the burning questions from you, the reader. There’s two days left in the Baseball regular season, and the Milwaukee Brewers are still fighting for a playoff spot. I’ll be disappointed if they don’t make it, but man what a compelling year we’ve been treated to. Anyways, on to your questions: Baseball Punditz asks: Why? Why didn’t the Brewers win more games in 2017? The Brewers didn’t win more games in 2017 because of Nick Franklin. Really though, it took a few months for the bullpen order to get sorted out so that lead to some painful losses early on in the year. Things started to turn once Hader joined the ‘pen in June, and then the additions of Swarzak and Jeffress in July really helped fortify things down there. It didn’t help, either, that Zach Davies was crap the first half, that Matt Garza was crap the second half, that Junior Guerra was either hurt or crap all year, or that Wily Peralta imploded, or that Chase Anderson and Jimmy Nelson both got hurt at key points in the season. And it REALLY didn’t help that the offense sort of forgot how to score runs for about a four week stretch coming out of the All-Star break until about the middle of August, when they endured two separate 6-game losing streaks. For most of the year, Milwaukee struggled for consistent offensive production from second base and center field, two positions that will need to improve for this club to really make a push in 2018. But overall, this ...
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