The Cardinals tend to be one of the most stable, unsurprising teams in baseball the usual question is whether this will be one of those 87-win seasons or one where they win 92. The projections for next year obviously have not been made yet, but the preliminary one would have placed him at the back of the top 10 at the start of the 2021 season.
31 pitcher in rest-of-career projected WAR, so a legitimate Cy Young-worthy season puts him easily over the top. The 2020 season was enough for ZiPS to believe that Burnes was a three-win player as a full-time starter and the No. Player Projection Spotlight: Corbin Burnes Rowdy Tellez and Daniel Vogelbach aren’t long-term solutions at first, and the Brewers can’t assume that Hiura will be given his struggles. Lorenzo Cain will be 36 and is increasingly fragile, and Bradley is not the answer Starling Marte would be a lot of fun in center. Yelich isn’t going anywhere, but expectations have to be adjusted downward. Improvements this offseason ought to primarily be lineup-based. Adrian Houser and Eric Lauer fill out the rotation, and Milwaukee has additional depth there.
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The good news for the Brewers is that there aren’t any serious losses in free agency this winter. He would have been my NL Cy Young pick, but you could have put Woodruff and/or Freddy Peralta on the ballot without looking like you’re taking kickbacks from Miller. It’s not like he went full-on Bob Tewksbury to manage that either he hit double-digits in strikeouts in eight games, punching out 96 batters against a measly five walks in those eight games. Burnes issued fewer walks than a Texas judge, handing out one or zero in 17 of his 28 starts. In the end, the Brewers got just “enough” offense, with the rotation pushing the team over the top. Luis Urías provided a lot of power, and I personally appreciate him not making me look stupid. The Brewers gave up an excellent prospect in Drew Rasmussen to get Willy Adames, but he was a key factor in them outpacing the division and has three more years until free agency. 168, and Avisaíl García was one of the offensive highlights, would you think “shucks, now that sounds like a team that’s going to coast into the playoffs?” Some things did, in fact, go in the lineup’s favor. If you were told at the start of the year that Yelich would turn into Mark Loretta, Jackie Bradley Jr. Heading into his age-30 season, there are good reasons to worry about his future.įor the Brewers, however, the season went swimmingly - almost shockingly so. 384 SLG against heaters in 2021 was easily the worst of his career, well off his over-.600 marks in ’18 and ’19. He largely drifted back toward the lower-loft, lots-of-liners, high-BABIP hitter that he was in Miami, but without the old ability to feast on fastballs. Corbin Burnes provided an ample demonstration of why you shouldn’t freak out about homers allowed for otherwise effective pitchers, and Brandon Woodruff had an entire season at bonafide ace status. Helping matters was a pitching staff that took a big step forward during the shortened season. The Brew Crew didn’t look like a 95-win team coming into the season, but in a weak division and with possible upside from players like Yelich and the contact-challenged Keston Hiura, you had to like their chances as much as anybody.
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