Brewers Preview

The series starting tonight against the Brewers is not exactly our most exciting series of the season. Our starters will be Jamie Moyer, Joe Blanton, and Kyle Kendrick. The Brewers lucked out by missing Cole Hamels and Roy Halladay. The Phillies lucked out, though, by missing Brewers ace Yovani Gallardo. So what can we expect from this series? Probably a lot of runs.

Randy Wolf and Jamie Moyer will be a good matchup in the first game. Wolf always has an odd, underrated amount of success. Jamie Moyer seems to be the same way. In the 3 seasons prior to this one, only 9 pitchers in baseball won more games than Jamie did. Who are they? Check out this list: CC Sabathia, Roy Halladay, Josh Beckett, Justin Verlander, Dan Haren, Ted Lilly, Johan Santana, Adam Wainwright, and Andy Pettitte.

The Brewers are simply not a very good team overall, but they have been very streaky this season. Their last 19 games: lost 8 out of 10 to the Cubs, Pirates, and Padres; won 5 out of 6 against the Dodgers and Diamondbacks; lost all 3 to the Braves.
Because of this, it's hard to know what to expect from the Brewers. Their offense this season consists mainly of Ryan Braun and Casey McGehee, who are their only regular starters batting anywhere close to .300 (although both are well above) and have accounted for 1/3 of the teams home runs. A team that includes a struggling Prince Fielder (.254, 4 HR, 15 RBI). Maybe he should have stuck with pitching - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcvaYgWc9eY
(Yes, that is Prince Fielder)

So, overall, it is tough to say what to expect from this series. We should expect to sweep them, but I cannot say I would be shocked if it were the other way around. It would be bad, but not necessarily shocking.