Milwaukee’s well-oiled run prevention machine may lose its manager after this season. Until then, the Wisconsin native will try to get his team over the postseason hump.
owner Mark Attanasio how in the world his team does it. Ask him how a team that plays in the majors’ smallest television market, that has not produced a top-five offensive team in the National League for more than a decade and annually keeps a payroll below major league average can win more games over the past seven years than every NL team but the
And yet at that meeting, even as the Brewers were headed toward their fifth postseason in the past six years, Counsell told Attanasio he would not commit to returning as Brewers manager next season. His contract expires with the last game the Brewers will play this year. “The analytic metrics when you dive into the qualitative data for Wilson are not off the charts, but the surface numbers are good,” Attanasio says. “Craig has picked terrific spots to use him. He talked about Wilson as an example of a guy you may not be able to see on a computer how effective he can be, but he’s been effective for us.
Milwaukee hit the fewest homers, had the fewest hits and slugged the worst of any postseason team. Only three teams have won a full-season division title in the wild card era by hitting .240 or less. Counsell has managed two of them . “The great thing about run prevention is everybody on the team takes part in it. On offense, it’s just your 13 hitters. But run prevention is something we care about and make a point of emphasis.
Williams was drafted in the second round out of high school in 2013. Woodruff was an 11th-round pick the next year out of Mississippi State. Peralta was acquired the next year from Seattle in a trade for Adam Lind. And Burnes was picked the next year in the fourth round out of St. Mary’s. All four, available to every team, became the building blocks of how Milwaukee has reached the postseason five times in the past six years, surpassing its four postseason berths in its first 49 seasons .
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