Brewers are Stealing Signs

[Swirls]

This thread definitely took an interesting turn.

[Vidor]

In all seriousness, why haven't one of the bigger stat driven sites tackled this? You think with an outlier this big, FanGraphs or Baseball Think Factory would be chomping at the bit to try and explain it. Do MGL and Tango still visit GRB?

The only other situation remotely like this that I can ever remember is the infamous case that all of us Cardinal fans know and hate--the 1987 Minnesota Twins. Who were outscored on the year, had a pythagorean W-L of 79-83, and went 29-52 on the road but 56-25 at home.

I am not a conspiracy theorist by any means, but the 2011 Brewers sure do look weird.

[pioneer98]

In all seriousness, why haven't one of the bigger stat driven sites tackled this? You think with an outlier this big, FanGraphs or Baseball Think Factory would be chomping at the bit to try and explain it. Do MGL and Tango still visit GRB?

The only other situation remotely like this that I can ever remember is the infamous case that all of us Cardinal fans know and hate--the 1987 Minnesota Twins. Who were outscored on the year, had a pythagorean W-L of 79-83, and went 29-52 on the road but 56-25 at home.

I am not a conspiracy theorist by any means, but the 2011 Brewers sure do look weird.

Yeah, but even the 1987 Twins hitting stats don't come that close. The Twins had a bigger split with their pitching stats to add up to the big difference in W/L records.

1987 Twins OPS home: 0.794
1987 Twins OPS away: 0.722

1987 Twins ERA home: 3.92
1987 Twins ERA away: 5.48


2011 Brewers OPS home: 0.817
2011 Brewers OPS away: 0.666

2011 Brewers ERA home: 3.55
2011 Brewers ERA away: 4.22

[cwolf20]

I think the Brewers are cheating on the road now too!

[go birds]

Its nice to see a brewer fan finally admit to it.

[Faceman]

Maybe the Brewers learned it from the Jays.

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/ ... ers-centre

[signthief]

I think the Brewers are cheating on the road now too!

You're taking these guys waaaaaay too seriously.

[cwolf20]

"You're taking these guys waaaaaay too seriously."

I'm well aware that most of the people in this thread are being sarcastic.

I'm still not above taunting, however.

[cards2468]

"You're taking these guys waaaaaay too seriously."

I'm well aware that most of the people in this thread are being sarcastic.

I'm still not above taunting, however.

it's alright, I had a fun time last night getting in Nyjer Morgan's head from the left center bleachers

[go birds]

Well in any case, the brewers are a pretty dang good team that will probably win the central. I take comfort in the fact that there will be an asterisk by their name in the record books though.