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Just ran DVOA for yesterday, and this surprised me but the Vikings didn't even come close to the worst offensive DVOA performance in a win. Vikings were at -38%. Worst offense in a win was Chicago -83% in the "crown their ass" game in 2006. 4 of the 5 worst offensive DVOAs in wins are the Bears.

The smell of the tree. The crash of the bat. The season truly never ends.

If MLB owners do end up getting their long sought after salary cap, it’s gonna setup a fascinating reckoning for ownership in terms of how they want to go about setting it up and if using it to create parity is even on the agenda at all. People assume it is, but I think it’s almost certainly not. 🧵

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The 2026 ZiPS projections for the Milwaukee Brewers are now up on @fangraphs.com. blogs.fangraphs.com/2026-zips-pr...

The best way I can summarize that half of football is I take notes while watching the game and about ten minutes ago I just started drawing a picture of Santa

Here's an early look at the ZiPS x @fangraphs.com Depth Chart for the next ZiPS team, the Milwaukee Brewers.

Last night we discovered a terrible error on my part which is horrifying, but I have to admit, very funny. Sam didn't win the U-25 Draft. Ben did. I will now explain what happened.

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Why yes, I *was* looking up Minor League Free Agents and making sure I linked to the right one.

The Brewers system contained so many quality to excellent big leaguers around that time — Hader, Burnes, Woodruff, Williams, Grisham, Houser, Peralta, Erceg, Dubon — and the Marlins somehow managed to take back 4 complete flameouts for Yelich. That will never not be wild.

"Strikeouts aren't real!" I assure myself as I trade Christian Yelich for Monte Harrison, Isan Díaz and Lewis Brinson

The list of David Stearns Era Brewers who have become David Stearns Era Mets grows. -Tyrone Taylor -Pablo Reyes -Ben Gamel -Omar Narvaez -Jesse Winker -Adrian Houser -Jorge Lopez -Cooper Hummel -Devin Williams!

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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Ben had the under at 189, and will lose 21 points!

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ewstats.com has been updated the PPG results, and if you go to your personal ballot, you can now see directly how your predictions compared with the final averages!

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The Brewers have tendered Brandon Woodruff a qualifying offer. It's worth one year and $22 million. He will have until Nov. 18 to accept or reject it.

The journey to MLB The Show 26 begins ⚾ See how the franchise is evolving with a sneak peek of what's to come: play.st/49079uq

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Could this be the first World Series game in which the name of one pitcher of record translates as the name of the other pitcher of record?

Shohei Ohtani is the first player with multiple games with 12+ total bases in a single postseason Only only player with two such games in a postseason career: Babe Ruth

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Tucker Kraft plays like a snow mobile

the timing on this announcement is <chef's kiss>

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The EWStats team have had some time to kill during the postseason, so a few of us ended up creating this: The MLB All-'Star Wars Name' Team for 2025

postseason series between teams where one swept the season series: 2025 NLCS MIL (6-0) vs LAD** 2015 NLCS CHC (7-0) NYM** 2014 WS KC (3-0) SF* 2009 ALDS NYY** (7-0) MIN 2007 ALDS NYY (6-0) CLE* 2006 WS DET (3-0) STL* 2003 ALDS NYY* (7-0) MIN *won PS series **swept PS series @EliasSports

Lights out on the 2025 Brewers. Aside from the first four games and the last four games, they were a hell of a lot of fun.

Top 3 EV Top 3 distance Top pitch velo Most whiffs SHOHEI IS SO SPECIAL

Weird.

Feels like this about sums up the NLCS: No player in the series has more balls hit 100+ mph than Jackson Chourio and William Contreras. They’re a combined 1 for 8 on those swings, and 0 for 7 on balls in play.

Setting aside K and HR, which we always talk about: the two teams down 0-2 have these BABIP: .100 MIL .137 TOR two teams up 2-0 have these BABIP .310 SEA .294 LAD that's not all luck, but a little, and a .100 BABIP is no way to live

ADAM AMIN: Welcome to the top of the 47th [Sun rises] [Sun keeps getting bigger] ADAM AMIN: yes [World engulfed by flames] ADAM AMIN: oh god yes AJ PIERZYNSKI: shoulda bunted

The lesson of this Robles plate appearance, as always, is that bunting is stupid

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Jackson Chourio's career extra-base hits spray chart is a thing of odd but profound beauty, innit? Dude can just cause you problems from one foul line to the other, with raw power and with gap power and with the speed after his power. Amazing.

#Postseason Umpire: Mike Estabrook Final: Cubs 3, Brewers 7 #BeHereForIt // #ThisIsMyCrew #CHCvsMIL // #MILvsCHC More stats for this ump 👇 https://umpscorecards.com/data/single-umpire/Mike%20Estabrook

11 appearances 8 innings 12 hits 11 runs (9 earned) 8 walks 7 strikeouts 1-4, 1 blown save 10.13 ERA since Treinen's hat nonsense.