Milwaukee Brewers

As Jonah Heim squeezed the final strike of the 2023 postseason and Josh Sborz spiked his mitt on the mound to celebrate the Texas Rangers’ first World Series title, a thought crossed my mind: How will this change the franchise rankings?See,…
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Welcome to this year’s ranking of the top 100 prospects in baseball. I’ve been compiling and writing such rankings for 17 years now, and those of you who’ve read them before will find the format here similar to those from the recent past.…
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — There were Adrián Beltré and Joe Mauer. This was their first Hall of Fame election. They won’t need a second. On Tuesday, they became baseball’s newest first-ballot Hall of Famers. And that stamps them as baseball…
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However you perceive Gary Sheffield — icon or problem child, steroid user or public-opinion victim — one image almost certainly springs to mind. It’s that waggling bat, the pulsating motion that for 22 seasons radiated so much…
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Look, we get it.The Baseball Hall of Fame is a breathtaking idea. It’s a celebration. It’s a history lesson. It’s a pilgrimage. The museum in Cooperstown is home to heroes and memories and the posters on our walls. The very notion can fill…
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Every year we're amazed at the many creative ways baseball players can appear on the ever-popular Strange But True Injuries of the Year leaderboard.So we'd like to thank this year's baseball crowd for... cooking breakfast... playing the…
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year … except for one thing:It’s no longer baseball season!But that’s where we come in. It’s our not-so-solemn duty to get you through these long, chilly, baseball-free months by helping you relive the…
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Nine weeks from today, we’ll find out who gets to live out the weekend of a lifetime next July in magical Cooperstown, N.Y. Spoiler alert: Adrián Beltré’s friends and loved ones had better make those dinner reservations ASAP!But there were…
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Free agency officially started Monday, but the managers, not the players, stole the show, culminating in the Cubs' stunning move to land Craig Counsell. To be honest, I still am shocked following yesterday's series of management moves,…
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – As soon as reports of Craig Counsell's surprising destination circulated online, a National League executive, unsolicited, texted a reporter two exploding head emojis along with three letters: WTF. When asked to explain…
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