MLB Daily Whiff Leaders 2026-05-16 1) Logan Henderson - 18 2) Cristopher Sánchez - 17 3) Jacob deGrom - 17 4) José Soriano - 16 5) Davis Martin - 15 Daily Recap: https://tjstats.ca/2026/05/16/mlb-daily-recap-may-16-2026/

The irony of MLB posting this is not lost on me

Four of the top five second basemen in the league are in the NL Central

Brewers legend Ben Grieve

Dylan Cease looking like, as a young Lieutenant on the rise, he played a critical role in the Union holding the high ground at Gettysburg

Fastest pitches by starters under tracking (2008, incl playoffs): 5/8/26 Jacob Misiorowski: 103.6 mph 5/8/26 Jacob Misiorowski: 103.6 mph 5/8/26 Jacob Misiorowski: 103.6 mph 5/8/26 Jacob Misiorowski: 103.5 mph 5/8/26 Jacob Misiorowski: 103.3 mph 5/8/26 Jacob Misiorowski: 103.3 mph

Heeeeellllllll no

Brewers have +10 DRS and -2 OAA. Clear as mud

Do you ever think to yourself, "The Brewers have a great farm system loaded with elite teenagers and Jackson Chourio is still younger than nine of the team's top 20 prospects and two months older than two others?"

Stuff+ is cool but: Trevor Megill, who allowed two runs in one inning, scored 117 while Paul Skenes, who allowed one run in eight innings, scored 97. 🤷🏼‍♂️

As far as I’m concerned, this is his legacy. One of the only good things left on TV and I hope it doesn’t get dismantled now that he is gone.

You guys: Matt Olson could make the Hall of Fame one day???

Rough

The positional stuff is weird and the BABIP King can’t keep it going forever, but: Milwaukee needs to know if Black is anything, long term, and there is no better time to figure that out than when Yelich (or, hypothetically, Bauers) is on the IL.

Jacob Misiorowski now has 4 career strikeouts at 102.0+ mph That’s the same total as all other starters combined under pitch tracking (2008) — Hunter Greene 2, Tarik Skubal 1, Yordano Ventura 1

Cannot stress how much Roch Cholowsky is a character from the Mad Max universe

Honestly I love that 34-year-old Mike Trout is leading the pack and I desperately want it to continue all season

I'm exploring Brandon Sproat's Statcast page, and here are the top five comparable pitchers of 2025 based on velocity and movement: 1. Bryan Woo 2. Zack Wheeler 3. Yoendrys Gómez 4. Mike Vasil 5. Paul Skenes That seems pretty good!

Jesús Made uncorked a 100 mph throw across the infield yesterday. No Triple-A or MLB infielder has done that in the Statcast era 😳 buff.ly/71INB7N

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

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Remember when Gil was supposed to be the centerpiece of a Peralta trade

Update: Hamilton doubled!

Only two hitters in baseball have more than 45 PA this season without an extra base hit: Joey Ortiz and David Hamilton. They have a combined 146 plate appearances.

My two-year-old daughter just referred to the beer I am drinking as “baseball juice”

Figure it’s as good a time as any to give Black a shot, I am in favor of this move.

This is odd given how many supposed zero-offense-all-defense players the Brewers have been playing

Give me Creepshow on this list. Young Ed Harris? Come on.

Brewers players at 240lb or greater to hit a triple: Corey Hart, 33 times Prince Fielder, 9 times Jesús Aguilar, twice Gary Sánchez, twice Rowdy Tellez, twice Chris Carter Jeff D'Amico Juan Francisco Rhys Hoskins Lyle Mouton Omar Narváez

From Tomah, WI

That’s I think three times in a row now where Megill has had some of the best stuff of the day among relievers. Still giving up hard contact but might be coming around.

Safe to say that I did not have a Brandon Lockridge-Greg Jones-Luis Matos outfield on my 2026 Brewers bingo card

Jack Chesbro is not impressed

Matt Olson has played in 800 straight games and is 11th on the all time list and only needs to do 11.3 more seasons without missing a game (til he’s 43) to catch Ripken

Something cruelly ironic about Megill being here

Not great, Bob

Yeli going on the IL according to Murph

They're almost 100% not going to do it because of 40-man/service clock/option burn reasons and with Chourio coming back in 2ish weeks, but I would think long and hard about Luis Lara right now. The outfield combo of Perkins and Matos is providing nothing and with no encouraging underlying signs.

What the fuck there is an exclusive clip of a Cannes film featuring diegetic usage of Charlier 2 you have to be kidding me

The Brewers started the season 11th in MLB’s power rankings and 10th in the Athletic’s. They finished last season with the best record in baseball. After a week and a half, they are third in both. Who ever could have seen this coming? 🙄

This is what I mean. All of these are expansion era teams, three of them from the last 30ish years. The Guards first played in 1901! They’re as old as the American League!

This is cool. Cleveland is a really old franchise with a ton of history. It’s kind of amazing that a player in 2026 set a record like this.

Mona rules

OK, I'm now utterly obsessed with this umpire, S.M. Decker. Look at how he's listed in this box score in the Chicago Tribune that same year.

Snuck a Karl Hungus reference into an article today so naturally one of my proudest as a writer www.brewcrewball.com/milwaukee-br...

The broadcast tells us that that, Yelich's 234th career homer, was his first ever pinch-hit home run

Contreras coming up down 3 in 8th inning with bases loaded. It will either be a game-tying double or a double play. There is no in between.

There it is: three catchers in the Milwaukee lineup today. (Contreras DH, Sanchez 1B, Quero debut at C.)

Turang is 3-for-5 with two doubles and the two outs were hit 106 and 102 mph.