Milwaukee Brewers Old-School Baseball STUNS Analysts | Are the Brewers Redefining Success?

So, why are the Brewers so good? It’s because they do things the old school way, says one baseball expert. We’ll tell you about that next in this edition of Locked On Brew. You are Locked On Brewers, your daily Milwaukee Brewers podcast, part of the Locked On Network, your team every day. Hey everybody, we were looking for a long day of baseball. Turns out we only got a half of a day of baseball, but we’ll get to that coming up next. Hey everybody, Chuck Freeman, Locked On Brewers, proud host of Locked On Brewers, longtime sports cer here in the great state of Wisconsin and proud to be with you every day here on Locked on Brewers, part of Lockdown Podcast Network. We are your team every day. This episode brought to you by FanDuel. FanDuel football season, the NFL and college right around the corner. Visit FanDuel. Visit their app today and start planning your futures bets right now. All right, coming up on the show, we’ll tell you what one baseball insider says about the way the Brewers are winning, why they are winning. It’s the oldfashioned way. We’ll get to that coming up here in a little bit. It never gets old beating the Chicago Cubs as the Brewers did. Although the second game was called off because of rain. Freddy Peralta, could he get the 20 wins? Could be. We dodged a bullet with Greg Counsel. We dodged one right there. Right. I’m gonna tell you why we shouldn’t be booing that guy anymore. Coming up next, all this and more on this edition of Lockdown Brewers. Was looking to talk about two games today, but then when I saw the weather forecast for at night, uh, and I looked at the rain and all that, it was like 100% of rain in Chicago from 7 o’clock until 10 o’clock. And I was like, I ain’t playing no night game tonight. When are they gonna play it? And sure enough, they called it and it’s a dayight double header. They’ll try to redo it tomorrow, but the Brewers did get the first game in and beating the Cubs handily. Wow, that was so fun to watch. Uh you got home runs by Terra and Durban, solo shots, and I’m going to talk more about those two coming up here in a little bit, especially Durban. But the Brewers won this game because I mean they made the Cubs look absolutely silly. Craig Council, the manager of the Cubs, uh, and I’m going to tell you later on why we got the better. Well, we all know that right now that the Brewers got the better of the two managers, right? I’m going to tell you some further facts about that a little bit later on in the show. But the Craig I mean Craig doesn’t know where George Webb is. But was he at all prepared for what the Brewers were going to throw at him and his team? Man, that looked like an unprepared team. I I watched the Cubs this weekend and they looked they looked terrible against the Pirates. And I put out a tweet on Friday. I said the the Cubs are going to have their hands full with the Pirates. And I heard it from all sorts of Cub fans. And sure enough, I was right. They had their hands full with the Pittsburgh Pirates. I said the Brewers weren’t going to, but the Cubs were. And you watch the way the Cubs play. The Cubs are are not in the Brewers league. The Brewers are up here. And if you’re watching me on YouTube, I’m at the top of the screen. And the Cubs are probably Yeah. just below. The Cubs are playing like an average baseball team right now. They’ll win a few, lose a few, win a few. Certainly not what I thought they were going to be this year or anybody thought they were going to be, especially after they got off to that good start. And the Brewers made them look completely foolish. And that’s fine. That’s fun anytime you’re in Wisconsin and you making one of those Chicago teams look foolish because in Wisconsin we love beating teams from Illinois whether it’s the Packers beating the Bears in this case the the Brewers putting a number on the Cubs and they’ve been doing this since the Brewers were in the National League and game 163 as you see on my wall back there on YouTube I got that program up there from game 163 in 2018 and it’s trickling down to today. Now, the Cubs are ready for this series. You know, they’re talking about they’ve been talking about this for months. So, this Cubs series that’s coming up, the series against the Brewers coming up in August, the five games in four days. Well, as the Brewers kept winning and the Cubs continued to be mediocre, and the Brewers won at such an ungodly rate, it proved that this series, well, some of the luster came off of it. It was like now this series is to prove that the Cubs belong in the wild card race and uh you know that they need to just win games. Doesn’t matter if it’s the Brewers or not. Meanwhile, the Brewers 40 and 10 now since they last faced the Cubs in mid June according to Adam Adam McCely’s tweet tonight. 40 and 10. The Cubs 25 and 26. That’s why you got a nine-game lead in the division. That’s why you got a nineame in the lead in the division. You’re 79 and 45. Nineame win lead. And what I love today, Brewers fans turn Wriggley into Amfam South. Cubs fans like to talk about coming to Wrigley and calling it Wrigleyfield North. Man, that was the most Cub fans I’ve Brewers fans have ever seen in Wrigley today. Ever. And they were loud and they were let the Let’s Go Brewer chance. It was great. I loved it, man. We’re taking over that place. I was only sad that there was a rain out tonight. uh because of the Brewer fans that went down. They’re looking to take in two. Probably took a day off, maybe tomorrow off or whatever. Looking to take two uh take it two games and you know they they did see one, but they saw a good one and they saw the Brewers get the win. Now, I did feel at one point the Brewer the Cubs are going to be quick to call this one because the Brewers are hot. The Cubs are short in the bullpen right now. their starting pitcher. Horton left the game like in the fourth inning with blisters. Things were not going or in the third inning. Was it the third third inning I think it was? Um because of blisters and they had to use their bullpen. Um so the Cubs and their fans, they were pulling for a rain out because not only are they short-handed in the bullpen, but the Brewers are just a machine. In fact, they they they’re probably hoping that it the next three games get rained out, but I saw there’s like like a 15% chance of rain tomorrow at Wrigley. All those memes on Twitter about Cubs fans getting out their rain machine to try to make it rain. You know, the Cubs love their Phantom rain delays and it wouldn’t be surprising me at all. Um, but no, uh, they’re playing too. Looks like the weather’s going to be fine. Playing a dayight double header. Yeah. Uh, I think the way things were going, if they would have played this night game tonight, hard to predict baseball sometimes, but the Brewers have all sorts of momentum. The Cubs, the Cubs at the end of that game, they didn’t want to be there. They did not want to be there. Uh, the Brewers not only are the better team, but the Cubs look drained. The Cubs look like a team that uh is spent. like they’ve had their better days and they’re ready just for the season to end. They are the lifeless. I call them team lifeless. I don’t know if this a Brewers podcast, but since Craig Council’s got a coun um a connection there, they are t team lifeless. They are taking on the personality of Craig Council. I’m going to talk more about that a little bit later on. Get back to talking about our team. Um Durban seventh home run of the year, betting 255 42 home runs. I mean, I I shouldn’t have to apologize about Durban every time I come on, but I I never dislike Durban or the trade for Durban. I just didn’t think at third base was his position. I still don’t think it is. I think it’s second base, but Ortiz has been so good at short. The plan would have been moving Derba to second, Dang to short, and then maybe cutting loose with Ortiz. But man, Ortiz has proven to me everyday player. I know he had a little bleeder infield for a base hit today, taking advantage of Cubs mistakes again, but I don’t know. Ortiz has kind of worked his way back in the conversation with me. I don’t know. But I would love to have more power at third base other than Durban, but it’s working. It’s working to a tune of 79 and 45. Right. Every time we might think it’s going the other way, it never does. Maybe for like 15 minutes we get that thought. But we’re nowhere near the the comedy of the Cubs. The Cubs are a comedy right now. They are a comedy. And you know, they’re talking about benching Kyle Tucker for a couple of days, give a day off. Kyle out there wanting his 500 million. God, I hope the Cubs sign him the 500 million. I hope they give him every dime of that. What a mistake he’ll be getting. And you can keep Kyle Tucker tapping out to the right side of the Brewer infield as often as he wants to do. Man, what a great way to start the week. Little Monday afternoon baseball and the Brewers roll out the victory. All right, Freddy Peralta. Freddy Peralta. I’m going to get to that coming up here in a little bit. What I do want to talk about is something from Ken Rosenthal. Uh he was on a show today, I think it was foul territory, and he was talking about the Brewers. I know, odd that somebody from the national scene is talking about the Brewers, but the Brewers are such a story right now, you can’t help but talking about them, right? I mean, 40 and 10 since mid June. Uh what do you uh 15 of your last 16 games, you’re 79 and 45, you’re in the cat bird seat. You are the best team by far in Major League Baseball. Like I always say, still surreal to think about, but it is it’s just the facts. Ken Rosenthal was asked about the Brewers. He says, “You know what? They don’t obsess with analytics.” And Rosenthal would know. Rosenthal’s on the end with all these guys. He said, “The Brewers don’t obsess with analytics. They don’t get in into the VO stuff.” I’m sure they get into some of that. Every team does. The Brewers have their own analytics guys, but the Brewers concentrate on fundamentals. And I feel like that’s something we’ve gotten away from in all sports. But in this case with the Brewers, yeah, what they do, they do very well. Concentrate on the fundamentals. Moving a guy over, stealing a base, taking the extra base, making all the plays defensively, making the catches. Talked yesterday about the Brewers do get a few breaks along the way. Duran had one bobble, bobbled one, bobbled right into his arms, threw out a man at first base today. Cubs got the bases loaded. Hitter swings at ball four. Thank you very much. Maybe the inning changes right there. Maybe the game changes right there. But those things happen to good teams. But the Brewers, according to Rose Rosenthal, but we can see this, right? The fundamentals are there for the Milwaukee Brewers. They do everything right. What do what don’t they do right right on this team? I mean, you you you can’t throw stones at these guys. Pat Murphy, old school college coach, brings that mentality to this team that they’re going to do things right on this team. If you don’t do it right, big fella, you’re having a seat on the bench. Right now, he’s cooled off a little bit on that way of thinking, that my way or the highway. But still, the point is there that play to the best of your ability. When you come in, you’re thinking baseball. What can I do to help my team win? Move guys over, sacrifice flies, throwing to the right bases. Remember early in the year when guys were getting picked off and he was the I think it was Freelick who threw to the wrong base. He says he was it was an overthrow. You don’t see those things happen. You don’t see the Brewers make mistakes. The mistakes the Cubs made in the eighth inning, that was probably more mistakes than the Brewers have made in the last six weeks. And that’s being that’s being light on the timeline on that. So when you don’t make mistakes, you make all the plays, you do the right things, you steal bases, all that. You’re going to overcome your talent ability. You don’t have to have a a top 50 team or a top 100 player on the ESPN list. If you do all the right things right, not always the most talented team wins. Okay, you can make up for a lot of things. We’ve always talked about the window, the margin of error for the Milwaukee Brewers is very small. You can’t be making mistakes. If this team would go out there and make mistakes and and and throw the ball around and do stupid things out there, yeah, they’d be like right around the 500 mark, maybe. But they don’t do those things. They know that they have to play hard every day. They gotta swing a good pitches, work the count, and do everything else I said, you know, the defense and all that. And that’s why they are 79 79 and 45. I almost had a double I did a double take there. Making sure I had that number right. That’s right. 34 games over the 500 mark. 79 and 45. Nine games up on the Cubs. Don’t ab And I’m not an analytics guy. I know there’s room for baseball for some of that, but I don’t obsess over it either. You know, the exit velocity and velocity and all that and this and that. And, you know, I’m I’m old school. I I I think there’s a lot of room in this game for to be played a basic hard-nose way. And that’s what I enjoy about the Milwaukee Brewers. I mean, I enjoy watching this more than any Brewers team I’ve ever watched before. Because I love a team that plays. I love a basketball team that plays fundamentally. I don’t care if you play in the 40s, but if you make you don’t turn the ball over, you make the right passes and you make all your free throws and you don’t make stupid mistakes. I love watching a team like that in baseball, too. A team that plays smart, a team with a bunch of guys who are a bunch of fighters and a bunch of guys with high baseball IQs. You go right down this whole team, all those guys. There’s not one guy on that team you say, “Man, you know, no. Every guy on this Brewers team, not only are they 100% effort guys and they want to be in the lineup every day, you know, they don’t want to take any days off, but they’re smart, smart baseball guys.” Durban in the locker room today, he says, “We’re like sharks out there. We smell blood and we’re like sharks. And that’s exactly what they are. Look at those games this past weekend against Cincinnati. Look at that eighth inning against the Cubs today. They’re sharks. You give them any inch. There’s blood and those sharks are coming up from the bottom. That’s my team right there. Murphy says, “We are still underdogs.” His quote of the day, “Topps hasn’t even started making cards for some of the guys in that clubhouse. That says it all right there. We come back, we’ll talk about Freddy Peralta getting the 20 and how we dodged one with Craig Council. Remember back in 2023? Yeah, we were all worried about Council going to Chicago. We don’t have to boo him anymore. 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How are the Brewers an underdog again today? And they’re in the underdog tomorrow. They’re an underdog with Peralta on the hill today. Who got to his 15th win? Cubs had Cubs had a shot against him in the fourth inning base for walk the bases loaded and he got out of it. Six innings, one hit, on his way to his 15th win. It’ll be the first time the Brewers will get a 20-game winner if he finishes this off since 1986. Getting the 20 wins used to be a benchmark for pitchers. That’s how we grade pitchers on 20ame winner Jim Palmer. 20ame winner Teddy Higgera. It’s no longer the case anymore. Quality starts, keeping your team in the ball game, going out there and having a great RA. So 20game winner, he has record 15 and five. That’s beautiful. It looks great in the scorebook. Looks great on the scoreboard, but the fact is that he’s gone out and pitched so great this year like an ace. We question whether or not I did before the season. We talk about Freddy being the ace. I’ve said he’s the number one pitcher in this rotation. I wouldn’t necessarily call him an ace. He had not been pitching like an ace. He is this year. Even Murphy has said Freddy Peralta is the best version of himself right now. He is. And again, it’s been 29 years Teddy Higera on a bad base Brewers team got to 20 wins. Teddy Haggera, one of the all-time best lefties in Brewers history. Brewers cut short because of a rotator cuff surgery, rotator cuff injury, and uh back then the surgeries were not as advanced as they are today. And that pretty much ended Teddy Haggera’s career in the early 90s. Um, today Teddy Haggera would have probably been back following year or two after the rotator cuff surgery. Um, but back then 80s and 90s, uh, the advancements in in medical weren’t where they are today. But Peralta’s got a chance to move into a 20ame winners spot. But regardless, I don’t care if he gets the 20. Well, 20 will mean that the Brewers continue to win. I just want this team to keep on churning out victories. Churning out victories. All right. Uh Chad Patrick is going to pitch, by the way, uh in the first game on Tuesday. He was supposed to pitch in the night one on Monday night. He’s the 2. He’s you’re allowed to expand your roster to 27 with the double header. So Chad Patrick, the 27th man, is going to pitch in game one and then Woodruff will pitch in game two on Tuesday. So it’ll be Patrick and Woodruff. Matthew Boyd will pitch in game one. He’s an 11 game winner. One of their best pitchers. Uh Tyion will pitch for the Cubs in game two. So it’ll be Boyd and Tyion and Patrick and Woodruff. Looks like two more wins in my book for the Milwaukee Brewers. All right, why we should not be booing Craig Council anymore. Be cheering the Cubs because this coming up next here on Locked on Brewers. Price Picks. Daily Fantasy with Price Picks. 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Um, so we’re heard everywhere, all around the world. And thank you for You’re telling me your story. It just I love it. I love reading your stories and your Brewer fan stories. Uh, one guy who was a Brewers, a Brewer, uh, Craig Councel, we shouldn’t boo him anymore because you know what, him going to the Cubs was the best thing that happened to the Milwaukee Brewers. Best thing, the Brewers aren’t here with Craig Council as their manager. I noticed this last year when Council was in Chicago, how lifeless his teams were at times. And I’m like, man, his teams don’t show any fight. They give up in the seventh inning and the eighth inning, they’re done. They get behind, they are done. I said, man, I’ve noticed that. Looks like a familiar storyline. I noticed that in Milwaukee and it’s continuing this year. When the Brewers got that two nothing lead, perhaps one- nothing lead, this game is over. You put one arm behind the Cubs back and they are calling uncle. They are saying, “I am done. We are finished.” Those are Craig’s teams. They take on the personality. He’s a smart manager. I know he knows his baseball, but there is no fight in this Cubs team. And you know what? This Brewers team, there’s no way they would have a record of 79 and 45 right now. Absolutely not. Pat Murphy, the perfect manager for this team. A guy who a guy who was not the first or second or third choice. A courtesy interview. I suppose this could apply for all things in life. The guy you might not think is going to be your star could turn out to be the right hire. You know, number four on your candidate list could be the guy Pat Murphy courtesy interview. Let’s interview this guy and man, what a hire he has. Well on his way to getting manager of the year once again. Now, I know he wants he doesn’t want to hear it. He doesn’t want to talk about it. He doesn’t like talking about stuff like that, but certainly is. for a thousand different reasons. You could tell that Murphy is a better manager than Craig Council. Number one, especially his team’s got a pulse. Brewers with council did not have a pulse. There’s no absolutely no way do I think the Brewers would be like this if council was here. The Cubs spent 40 million on him. Thank God. Thank God he took the offer. Thank God he left. Right. We were kind of not mourning but yeah mad, disappointed and all that when he left. Thank goodness man. We got the better guy and this guy Murphy is taking us to new levels. Who knows how long he wants to manage being in his mid60s young kids. I don’t know but I hope he stays here for a long long time because his magic is working with this franchise. It is working with this team council. No fire. You would think he’d throw it, get thrown out once in a while, you know, do something, spark his team. None of that. He is just couch just sits back and is content with his team getting their butts kicked in by the Milwaukee Brewers. Oh well, I don’t like hanging around with people like that. People just, oh well, they’ll get them next time. No, show some fire. I show some fire. I throw some clubs once in a while. I throw a club once in a while when I golf. Spike a golf ball. Yeah, childish a little bit, but it shows I got some fire at least in my throw club. I make sure it’s not in anybody’s direction. All right, that’s going to do it. We’ll see what team Lackluster the uh Chicago Cubs have for the Brewers tomorrow. Another dayight double header scheduled. Again, we thought this was going to be a long day today. Turned out it wasn’t. That’s fine. We’ll get them through tomorrow. Brewers are on their way, baby. On their way. And they didn’t let a little loss on on Sunday get in their way. They bounced right back. It took care of business behind Freddy Peralta doing Brewer baseball, ABC baseball. Couple of solo home runs, doing Brewers things this afternoon. Monday afternoon. I love it. Hey man, have yourself a great Monday. We’ll see you back here later on on Tuesday night. Ah, have yourself a great Monday. I’m I’m doing this on a Monday. Have yourself a great Tuesday. We’ll be back here late Tuesday night talking Brewers baseball with you and hopefully talking about a dayight sweep and moving 11 games ahead of these guys. Telling you the Reds are going to catch the Cubs before you know it. Not our problem. We’re just worried about getting the best record in baseball. My name is Chuck Freeman. Thanks for making us your first listen to Everyday. and all you everydayers on Lockdown Brewers, part of the Lockdown podcast network. We are your team every day.

The Milwaukee Brewers befuddle the Chicago Cubs with dominant performance.
Chuck Freimund breaks down the Brewers’ impressive 9-game division lead, highlighting their 40-10 record since mid-June and analyzing their success beyond analytics. The discussion covers Freddie Peralta’s stellar pitching, Pat Murphy’s energetic management style, and how the team’s “shark-like” approach is reshaping the MLB landscape. Key topics include the Brewers’ fundamentals-first strategy, upcoming doubleheader against the Cubs, and the potential for securing the best record in baseball.

Don’t miss this in-depth analysis of the Milwaukee Brewers’ path to success. Will Freddy Peralta become the first 20-game winner for the Brewers since 1986?

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32 comments
  1. Are you sure that Pat Murphy only had a courtesy interview? According to the Milwaukee Journal, Yelich lobbied loudly for Murphy in internal discussions that began the afternoon that Counsell announced he was leaving.

  2. Priester said of the players' mentality when they fall behind: "It's just like this feeling of, like, "so what"? We play nine innings. We don't play six innings."

  3. I find it almost laughable that it took the Cubs 18 days to gain a game on the Brewers in the standings, yet it only took the Brewers less than 18 hours! to gain it right back! That has to be very disheartening for the Cubs at this point!

  4. P.S.S. I don't think they should PH for Ortiz when a lefty is up at the present. He is hitting .273 with a .395 SLG vs lefties this season. This is with his very slow start. We know how well he's been swinging the bat the last month or 2. I do agree to bring a PH if the Brewers need a HR or a 2B and they have a better option in the bench though. The biggest reason is to keep his GG type defense on the field as much as possible. I know some will argue and they would have an argument.

  5. It's just that Pat Murphy is so zoned in to what each of his players can and can't do. He rides each pitch with his players. You're right Chuck about Pat Murphy drilling the fundamentals. But, Murph mixes in risk with good fundamentals and his "total team being better than the sum of the parts" . The primary reason the Crew is as good as they are is because of Pat Murphy. Others deserve credit, but only in a secondary way. Players, coaches, develepment personel, administration are all important, but less as far as why the Brewers are so successful.
    This team is the living embodiment of Pat Murphy's personality.

  6. I’m not sure if the brewers could have pitched mcgil against the reds or Murphy was saving him for the double header… but I do see too often that managers are so worried about tomorrow, it causes. Mistakes today. Because of weather and the big win in game one mcgil got his rest.

  7. Counsel got the highest paid contract for a manager in baseball by selling out to the enemy. Lol, he better be able to handle getting booed and jeered. Of course Murphy is superior to Counsel. That was known last year though. This year it's just more extreme.

  8. Counsel and Murphy are close friends. Counsel wanted Murphy as his bench coach precisely because their personalities were different. Murphy almost went with Counsel to Chicago. The media always wants to pit one coach against another to make a story or start some chatter. The bottom line is Counsel and Murphy are lifelong friends.

  9. Just wait until October my friend. I am neither a Brewers nor a Cubs fan, but as I keep posting here almost on a daily basis, just when you think that the Brewers is this unstoppable team, which it certainly looks like at the moment, come October it could all go the other way. It's very difficult to maintain this sort of a streak for months at a time, so the danger is always there that the Brewers are peaking at the wrong time. At this point you have to be confident that they are a World Series team, but you never know who you will run into come October, and no one will care how good the Brewers were in the regular season when another team is hoisting that trophy.

  10. At its core, baseball is a blue collar sport. And Milwaukee is a blue collar city with a team playing in it’s image.

  11. I wasn't mad or disappointed when he left. i always said it would be great to win a championship with Counsell with him being from WI. but it was evident after his 2nd season he was never going to get us over the hump. Brewers fans would get so mad at me for saying it but it was clear as day. I think he should have been fired years ago. I was surprised he went to shitcago though.

  12. Read the Rosenthal piece, and a lot of what he wrote made sense. There are huge advantages to having a team of young players open to coaching on small contracts, but I think he undersold the Brewers analytics in identifying players having correctable flaws to their game and getting them. One trade for a player that suddenly improves can be luck. Doing so over and over demonstrates some incredible analysis of potential players that other teams don't seem to be able to duplicate.

  13. If you guys read the Rosenthal piece you would understand what I've been saying since February – right around the time Chuck was crying again about "doing nothing" this offseason.

  14. How many times did we see Willy Adames strike out last couple years with one or less outs and runner at third. It seems a lot and that is just one example where the Brewers have been capitalizing this season just by putting the ball in play… Ken Rosenthal is a dweeb. lol

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