How Baseball’s “Cheapest Team” Became MLB’s Best Team

How Baseball’s “Cheapest Team” Became MLB’s Best Team

Over the last decade, the Milwaukee Brewers have garnered a reputation of being one of the cheapest teams in Major League Baseball. But regardless of these claims, the Brewers continue to find ways to win baseball games. They don’t spend money. They don’t extend their superstars, and they build teams that all the modern computer algorithms would say shouldn’t be a successful team. But yet, year after year, they beat the odds and prove that they are one of the best teams in baseball because of the things that they do excel at. This combination of success and value because of their overall payroll is making some general managers and franchise owners question the way they run their own teams. But is the Brewers success a simple flash in the pan or are they really finding a way to break Major League Baseball? And make sure you stick around to the end of the video because I think that the way that they are winning these games and the conclusions that I come up with might really make other teams think about the way they handle their own roster construction. Anyway, let’s break it down and find out what’s really happening over in Milwaukee. But really quickly, look how crazy this is. Less than 6% of my regular viewers are subscribers. And since I consistently have over 200,000 people watching my content monthly, if you subscribe, you’ll help me work towards reaching my ultimate long-term goal of 100,000 subscribers. You don’t even have to leave full screen. Just click the little subscribe button in the righth hand corner of the video and subscribe for me. I really appreciate the support. Anyway, let’s talk about the Milwaukee Brewers. Making this case study about this franchise is extremely difficult to do because normally I like to start saying the last time they made the postseason or something like that, but this team somehow makes the postseason almost every single year. So, it’s difficult to even pretend like they’ve struggled recently in the seven seasons since 2018, not including this current season where the Brewers have almost a 100% chance of making the playoffs. in six of those seven seasons they’ve made the postseason. However, they’ve consistently struggled once October has rolled around as they’ve gotten eliminated four times in the wildcard round out of their last five appearances and haven’t made the NL Championship Series since 2018. They last made the World Series back in 1982, which is the only time they have made it to that stage. They lost in seven games and they are one of the few franchises that have yet to win a World Series. That’s where the struggle comes into play. They’ve been kind of like the Tampa Bay Rays in more ways than one. They’ve been a regular season powerhouse with their low payroll, but then once the lights get the brightest and they have to deal with the clubs that are riddled with superstars, the Brewers start to struggle. But this year, I think it might be different for the team that according to their own shortstop, Joey Ortiz says has the power of friendship on their side this year. Back in the 2024 off season, the Brewers traded away debatably their best player, an Ace and former Sai Young winner Corbin Burns. And with the fourth straight disappointing season from former MVP winner Christian Yelich, it was looking like the window that had once existed for this club from 2018 through 2023 had officially closed. Even though they made the postseason in the previous season, the season before the Burns trade looked like it might sink the franchise anyway. There were clear holes in the lineup with first base, center field, right field, and DH all looking like problems for the 2023 club. Salic and Garrett Mitchell were more than talented enough, but their inability to stay on the field was a cause for concern for the Brewers. The rotation behind Corbin Burns and Freddy Peralta was also a concern because of an injury that limited Brandon Woodruff to just 11 starts in 2023 and zero in 2024. Colin Ray, Julio Tyron, and Adrien Howser all got fairly consistent starts in the rotation, even though they all struggled throughout the season. The bullpen, however, like it always is in 2023, was one of the best bullpens in MLB, as they were second in the league in bullpen erra, trailing only the New York Yankees. Because of this extremely elite bullpen and the two aces at the top of the rotation in Burns and Peralta, the Brewers still had the third best team erra trailing just the World Series winning Texas Rangers and the San Diego Padres’s. Where the Brewers struggled was on the offensive side of the ball. The Brewers ranked just 26th in runs scored that season. The largest part of these struggles came from their inability to hit home runs. They were 24th in the league in that category. They also couldn’t double as they were 24th in the league in that as well, which put them 25th in the league in slugging percentage. Batting average was also bottom 10 as well as OPS. So, the offense was pathetic no matter which way you looked at it. William Contrarus was the only star player on the offense that season. Christian Yelich was also solid, but a huge step back from his 2019 dominance. They were the best at something though, and that was defense. This team was otherworldly defensively, and this will be very important for them when we get to this 2025 season. According to Fan Graph’s defensive value, they were almost twice as good defensively as the third best team in MLB. And they were 60% better than the second place club with their 50.3 defensive value. They were also the best team in baseball in outs, which is my personal favorite defensive stat. They were just truly insane defensively and that is part of what makes them so good in 2025. But we aren’t there yet because even though this Brewers team ended up winning the NL Central going 92 and 70, they were unable to go on a real postseason run because of the lack of offense. They went 0 and2 in the wildcard series, losing to the eventual World Series losing Arizona Diamondbacks as Corbin Burns and Freddy Peralta both had disappointing starts. And overall, the offense scored just five runs total to the Diamondbacks 11. It was clear that the Brewers were lacking the offense needed to be a real postseason powerhouse. Having guys like Rowdy Tles, Brian Anderson, and Jesse Winker were just not working out for this Brewers team. They needed to get more athletic if they wanted to find a way to compete. But before that, disaster struck. Have a week. Baltimore Orioles. new owners and now a new ace as of Thursday evening. Jeff Passion of ESPN reporting that the deal is in place to send Corbin Burns to the Baltimore Orioles. Unbelievable. The Brewers had just ripped away one of the key pieces in the thing that made them a playoff team in the rotation. And with Brandon Woodruff out for the season in 2024 as well, it was looking like the opening day rotation was going to be Freddy Peralta and a dream as they didn’t make any additions to this starting pitching group. Well, except DL Hall, who was one of the rookies traded in the Corbin Burns trade. Colin Ray, Joe Ross, and Jacob Junis rounded out this poor rotation, but Wade Miley would be back at some point in the season coming off of a good 2023 campaign. Along with Hall and Joey Ortiz being traded for Burns, there was at least one other trade that would be majorly impactful for the 2025 season with prospect Chad Patrick being added to the farm system. Speaking of farm system, the biggest addition for the 2024 Brewers was the top prospect Jackson Jorio, who was extended for eight years before even making his major league debut. During this off season, they did extend Woodruff even though he was unable to pitch in the 2024 season. And they also added Reese Hoskins for first base because they desperately needed some power and an upgrade to Carlos Santana, who completely disappointed in 2023. They also brought in Gary Sanchez, but that’s just a backup catcher/desated hitter because of William Contreres still being there. But overall, very clearly this was a significantly downgraded roster. They lost their best player in Corbin Burns, and they didn’t really do anything to improve their downright bad offense during the off season. But that was barely even the worst part of these downgrades. Maybe the worst loss during this off season was the loss of their extremely talented manager, Craig Council. And to add insult to injury, he went to the Chicago Cubs, probably the Brewers biggest rivals. After nine years of managing the Brewers, his tenure was over. He won 707 games and lost just 625. Six consecutive winning seasons except for the shortened season in 2020, and now he was gone. He would be playing 13 games against the Brew Crew in 2024 on the other side of the dugout. With all things considered, things should have gone very wrong for the Brewers in 2024. According to Fan Graph’s opening day playoff odds for the 2024 season, the Brewers were given just a 30% chance of making the playoffs and just an 18% chance to win the division. However, my god, the Brewers are just inevitable. They got even better. They won the division again this season with their record being one game better than their 2023 season. How do they keep doing this? With a record of 93 and 69, they were magically back in October. And once again, even with the god awful rotation, the Brewers were a top five team according to team erra. The bullpen ranked second in the league in ERA. And somehow the rotation was actually good as well. Tobias Meyers was called up and posted a three RA in 27 starts. Aaron Savali was acquired in a trade and he was also good in 12 starts with Milwaukee. And Freddy Peralta wasn’t as good as the previous seasons, but he was still Freddy Peralta and very good. Frankie Monttos and Colin Ray were both not great. Ray was okay, but Monttos was bad. Once again, the pitchers benefited from an absolutely unreal defense, coming fifth in total defensive value and third in outs. And this time, the offense was actually competent as well. And by competent, I mean really, really good. They were sixth in the league in runs scored. And while they weren’t good at driving the ball, being 16th in the league in homers was a big improvement than the 24th that they were in 2023. The slugging had also improved to above league average at 13th. And that combined with being fourth in the league in on base percentage, the Brewers had become a top 10 offense according to OPS. This was the season that the Brewers found their true identity as well, coming second in the league in stolen bases and eighth in the league in batting average. This old school baseball approach would continue into 2025 and is one of the key reasons why they’re so successful today. This approach was decided upon mainly by Brewers former bench coach and brand new manager Pat Murphy. Murphy had sat behind council for eight of his nine years as head coach in Milwaukee. So, he learned many things from the elite manager, including how to handle roster turnover. For example, losing a player like Corbin Burns. In his introductory press conference, he stated, “You don’t necessarily win championships with resources. You win championships with people. We want to get the players to play at the high end of their value. That creates a culture of responsibility. That creates a culture of, hey, the expectation is to win. That’s what we’ve tried to do. And I think that’s what we’ve had here. Regardless of the roster turning over and regardless of the moves or whatever, the Brewers were very good, but once again, they were unable to make it past the wildcard round. But there was a new elite core in Milwaukee and it was clear that even though it looked like the window might have closed on the Corbin Burns le Brewers, a new window had just been slammed open. This time by Pat Murphy and Jackson Chorio, who dominated the league in the second half of his rookie season. There were more positives than just Choro offensively though. Christian Yelich regained his MVP caliber form, batting 315 and getting his first all-star nod in a few years before getting injured and missing about half of the season. Sau Freelick, the right fielder, put together a gold glove campaign. And William Contrarus built on his phenomenal 2023 season with an even better 2024 one where he posted a 4.9 war while coming fifth in NL MVP voting in large part due to his 281 batting average in 23 home runs from the catcher position while playing great defense behind the dish. Bryce Draang also broke out stealing 50 bases while winning a gold glove at second base which gave him a 4.7 war season as well. Joey Ortiz, one of the pieces in the Burns trade, also proved to be a very good defender. While Jackson Chorio showed off to the rest of Major League Baseball that he was one of the games best five tool players, even though he was just 20 years old. Even Willadamis, who the Brewers had acquired from the Tampa Bay Rays a few years back, had a career season, hitting 32 home runs and stealing over 20 bases at shortstop while coming 10th in MVP voting. However, Adamus was a free agent and like Murphy had said a little over a year prior, the expectation is to win regardless of roster turnover. And much like the 2024 off season, the 2025 offseason would consist of some major roster turnover. First off, one of the best players in the game, Willadamis was a free agent and demanding a big time 9figure contract. And considering in 2024 the Brewers were willing to trade him at the deadline, it was pretty clear that the Brewers would not meet the matching price of their superstar shortstop. And on December 10th, that assumption would become a reality with the Giants and Adamus agreeing to a 7-year 182 million contract. The Brewers had lost one of their MVP candidates, 33 doubles and 32 homers along with 112 RBI’s. and now they were going to have to replace that production one way or another. Not much happened in terms of notable free agent signings heading into this season. Frankie Monttos was let go of as they did not pick up his secondyear option. However, they did pick up the option on first baseman Ree Hoskins who had an okay first season with Milwaukee. As for new major league free agents, they spent a total of $6.1 million total. They signed four players to one-year deals. Joseé Quintana, Tyler Alexander, Elvin Rodriguez, and Grant Holrim. They even declined a $4.5 million offer to Colin Ray, who was decent in the 2024 season for the Brewers. And with how much starting pitching costs in 2025, it was very clear that they were being extremely cheap during this off season. That wasn’t all though. They also traded away probably the best closer in baseball in Devin Williams and they received infield prospect Caleb Durban and starting pitcher Nester Cortez in return from the New York Yankees. This trading the closer on the Brewers for more valuable positions is not a new concept for the Brewers. They also traded Josh her when he was at the peak of his game. However, it would be pretty disappointing that the last thing that Devin Williams did in a Brewers uniform was blow a game to the New York Mets when Pete Alonzo hit that home run against him in the wildcard round. The Brewers also non-tendered one of their better relievers in Hobie Milner, who is projected to make just over $2.5 million. So again, the Brewers felt like they were punting away this season, losing two of their best players for the second off season in a row. Brandon Woodruff was still going to be out most of the season. It was just a clear developmental year for the Brewers, right? Fan Graph’s playoff odds also agreed that there was a decent chance that they made the postseason, but the odds of the club winning the division were poor with just a 24% chance of winning the division and just a 35% chance of making the playoffs overall. A large part of this low playoff odds was once again losing their talent after a huge year the season before. And the reason why I called the Brewers the cheapest team in baseball in the title isn’t because of the payroll being the lowest in the league or anything like that. But the way that this Brewers team is able to just throw away star players in trades or let them walk in free agency is just insane. It’s very Tampa Bay Rayike. But the Brewers have a bigger fan base, more ticket sales, and a much better stadium in sports market that can be successful. So, I would say that they are cheaper than the Rays even if they do spend somewhat more money. For example, in 2025, the Brewers rank 23rd overall in team payroll, but this was after they made the postseason the season before. The Rays ranked 26th. The Brewers are spending $113 million total, which is onethird of the top two payrolls in the league in the Dodgers and the Mets. So, they certainly are not putting money into this build like other teams are. But opening day was here and there was no more time to spend money. It was time to see if Pat Murphy could once again turn a roster that had been ransacked by a cheap owner into true gold and turn this team into a true contender like they so desperately wanted to be. The opening day roster was not filled with household names. There were some big names, don’t get me wrong, but there were lots of rookies and sophomore players that weren’t really bigname prospects. Let’s look at the opening day lineup. Jackson Jorio was leading off, followed by Christian Yelich, then William Contrarus batting third. Reese Hoskins was the cleanup hitter at first base. Seric was in right field batting fifth. Joey Ortiz was the shortstop batting sixth. Garrett Mitchell was in center field. Batting eighth was Vinnie Capra playing third. And rounding off the lineup, second baseman Bryce Terang. So again, Christian Yelich, Jackson Toro, William Contrarus. Those are true superstar players. But Garrett Mitchell, Salic, and Vinnie Capra were probably not players that were going to win you a World Series. And in the first four games for the Brewers of the 2025 campaign, these potential struggles would become a reality as they lost all four games, including game two of the season where the Yankees scored 20 runs off Netor Cortez. Three of the four games they allowed over 11 runs. So after Freddy Peralta pitched well in his first game, Nester Cortez, Aaron Savali, and Elvin Rodriguez all pitched terrible and the fear that the rotation might be Freddy Peralta in a bunch of band-aids was starting to look like it might be a reality just four games into the season. However, after the 4-ame losing streak to start the season, the Brewers won eight of their next 10 games and then played a little below 500 baseball until the end of May where the Brewers started a series against the Boston Red Sox in Milwaukee. Their record was a disappointing 26 and 28 through the team’s first 54 games, which is exactly 1/3 of the season. But from there, the Brewers decided to wake up. And my god, did they start exploding. Really quickly, just to explain how the Brewers got so much better, let’s start talking about the stats before May 25th, or these first 54 games that I was just talking about, so we can later compare them to their hot streak following. So, the Brewers were 21st overall in offensive team value on fan graphs with a negative 18 value. kind of insane that there were still nine teams worse than that considering they were -18, but that’s where they were ranked. Defensively, they were still fifth in the league in defensive value. So, that was not slumping for the second season in a row. Overall, according to War, that put them at a respectable 17th overall for position players. It was slightly below league average, but I guess it wasn’t awful. They were 23rd in batting average, 28th in on base, 25th in WRC plus, which is basically the same as OPS+, and they were right around league average and strikeout percentage. However, according to Isolated Power, which is basically how good the team is in power, they were 28th of 30s in that as well. And if you’re more interested in slugging, they were also 28th in that. There were some good things though. They were second in stolen bases and somehow they were still 12th in runs scored, which I don’t understand how that’s even possible. According to hard hit rate, they were 26th in the league. So overall, no matter how you look at it, they were bad offensively. Basically, according to every single stat that you looked at, they didn’t get on base, they didn’t hit the ball hard, and things were not looking great for the Brewers. Not every player on the team was bad necessarily, but there weren’t any players that were having stellar offensive seasons either. Moving to the pitching side of the ball, the Brewers might have lost their touch. They were 21st in team erra, 21st in FIP, which projects very poorly for the rest of the season. However, there was a big-time upgrade for pitcher war. They were ranked 19th in that category. So, that’s a big time upgrade. Everything was bad for the Brewers throughout these first two months of the season. But when the Boston Red Sox came into town, something clicked and the Brewers, they figured it out. The Red Sox got swept by the Brewers in all extremely close games. And following that, the Brewers would extend their winning streak to eight games in a row, giving them a record well above 500. They would play 500 ball for the next week or so, but then they decided that they never wanted to lose another baseball game ever again. They won eight of their next nine games. Then that turned into a 20 and5 stretch, including an 11game win streak, which they went through the All-Star break holding. They went 4-4 the next eight games, and then they won 14 games in a row once again. How did this happen? The Brewers went from 50 and 40, which was already a really good record, to having a record of 79 and 44. They went 28 and4 over a 32game stretch. That is insane. If they played 28 and4 baseball for the entire season, that would put them on pace to win 141 games and lose just 21. I this team and 32 games. It’s a not a huge sample size, of course, but it’s a month’s worth of games, even more so. So, for a month, they only lost four games. And I think they just lost three in a row to their division rival Cubs or whatever. But honestly, who cares? I don’t. The stretch that the Brewers just played on was otherworldly. They went from second in the division to a commanding lead, even losing three in a row to the Cubs. It just doesn’t matter. So, let’s figure out how that happened. From May 25th when the sweep of the Red Sox happened, the Brewers have played 73 games at the time of recording and they have scored the most runs in baseball since that stretch and they are the only team that has played less than 74 games. So, they’ve played the least amount of games and scored the most runs. That’s a good recipe for success. The batting average went from that terrible 23rd in baseball all the way up to second place. Stolen bases was still fourth in baseball. on base percentage was second place as well. Oh boy, the Brewers could slug now. They were third in slugging percentage as well. And don’t forget, they were 28th in the league in slugging before this stretch. Now they’re top three from bottom three to top three in baseball. Second in WRC plus, second in offensive value, which was twice as high as the third place Dodgers. And defensively, they were the second ranked team in defensive value as well. This position player group had magically become one of the most elite groups in baseball, seemingly overnight. One of the craziest parts of this turnaround was the hard hit rate was still below league average, meaning that there was a clear approach that the Brewers had, and it was putting the ball in play as much as humanly possible, which is not the way that most general managers and managers run their teams in 2025. The Brewers are fourth in the league in strikeout rate as an offense. And like I said in my video about the Blue Jays, which came out about a week ago, there is clearly becoming some consistent trend where putting the ball in play is winning lots of baseball games again, which people have been turning away from recently. Looking at individual players, the turnarounds were insane. Almost no one was bad and everyone was good, which was the opposite of what it looked like the last time we checked. Andrew Vaughn, who was traded for in the middle of this stretch, had quickly become the hitter that the White Socks expected him to be when he was drafted third overall. He was acquired for Aaron Savali from the White Socks, and he has batted 320 as a Brewer with nine home runs in less than 35 games. The Gold Glover, Sal Felix, started hitting over 310 with decent power. Yelich is hitting .308 with 17 homers, which puts him on pace for over 35 throughout the full season. So, he’s back to his MVP form. Jackson Torio got injured in the middle of this stretch, but he’s also batting over 300 during it. Rookie Isaac Collins has emerged as probably the rookie of the year favorite for the National League with an absolutely insane 66game stretch where he’s been batting over 295 with some extra base power. Even Bryce Terra and Caleb Durban, the rookie, started having good seasons as well. And even with William Contreras continuing to have a pretty major down season, it just hasn’t mattered. Everyone else has been so good. The pitching side of the ball was much like the offensive side. It went from bad to the best team in baseball by over.3 runs according to Rra and FIP. They’ve been insane at all three true outcomes, limiting home runs and walks and striking out a ton of batters. The batting average against is the best in the league. And the Brewers have also been insane at leaving the runners that they do allow on the bases. And they give up the third softest contact in baseball. They’ve completely turned back into that pitching lab that they have been so known for, which they had lost throughout the first third of this season. But that lab is a huge reason again why they are winning games. On the pitching side of the ball, there was another acquisition that helped set up this winning streak. And that was once again at the hands of the Boston Red Sox, who they acquired Quinn Pier from, another former firstround pick who was unable to break out with his teams. Remember how I said that the Brewers had a 14game winning streak earlier? Well, they actually had another one of those. And this 14game win streak is in Quinn’s last 14 starts, dating all the way back to May 30th. So in that 73game stretch where the Brewers have been the best team in baseball by a lot, they have not lost one single time that Quinn Priest has touched the baseball. Since that stretch, the Brewers are a simple 54 and9. To all my fans that are a little bit newer to sports, that’s pretty good. Sorry, I need to get back to the pitching. Everyone is good. Brandon Woodruff came back maybe better than ever. Jacob Mizarowski came up as a rookie phenom and looked untouchable. Although he has come back down to earth after his first few outings were just so so good. Freddy Peralta is still Freddy Peralta and even guys like Chad Patrick who is a rookie and Joseé Quintana are giving you good seasons with erraas just over four for Patrick and Quintana is around the 3.6 range. The bullpen as always is unbelievable. And once again, the Brewers are proving that it simply doesn’t matter what you do in terms of free agency or what you do at the trade deadline, which was also extremely underwhelming for the Brewers and their fans. But what matters is playing baseball the right way, playing great defense, running the bases correctly, pitching well, making contact, just the fundamentals that you’re taught from Little League. and the payroll. It doesn’t matter if you handle your business the way that teams like the Brewers do. I think the Brewers are changing baseball day by day. And soon we will see teams prioritizing having a 26-man roster that are all valuable rather than paying $30 million to a star shortstop like Willia Damis. Just to hammer home that point for a minute, Willadamis, who again was a top 10 MVP candidate the previous season, is now batting just 222 with 19 homers in worth just 1.5 war with a 102 OPS plus. Caleb Durban is playing third, sure, but I think it’s fair to compare the two because Joey Ortiz has moved to shortstop in the absence of Adamus and Durban has taken over Ortiz’s spot at third base. So really, Caleb Durban was the infield replacement for Adamus. Durban overall this season is batting .255 with a 100 OPS plus. So almost the exact same OPS+ as Adamus. However, this year Adamus’ defense has slipped just a little bit. So, Durban’s 2.1 war is actually better than Adamus’, meaning that rookie Caleb Durban, making $760,000 on league minimum, has contributed more to the Brewers winning baseball games than the $182 million man Willis has to his new team. Durban was a part of that Devin Williams trade if you had forgotten. And he’s been worth.5 war for the Yankees as he’s really struggled. So, Durban’s 2.1 war is over double as good as the combined wars of the two players he basically replaced. Let that sink in. This rookie has been twice as valuable to the Brewers as Willadamis and Devin Williams would have been. The guys that I said are two major losses. This rookie has performed better than both of them combined twice. That’s just crazy to think about. Baseball is such a weird sport. This goes to show that baseball isn’t all about salary. At the end of the day, teams with smaller payrolls, if built correctly, can handle any team in Major League Baseball, regardless of the star power. So, are the Brewers really cheap, or are they just ahead of the curve and extremely smart? The final thing, because I just reached page 13 on this script, and this video is going to be extremely long, but I just want you to look at this baseball reference page for the 2025 Brewers. First, the offense. There have been 24 players that took an atbat for the Brewers this year. 20 of them have been positive war players, meaning that they are more valuable than a replacement level player, and there are only four that are not. And all four of the ones that are worth negative war have played less than 25 games for the Brewers. Seven of those guys are above a two war. And considering that there are only nine starters on a team, that means that a huge percentage of the starters are extremely valuable players. And that’s not even including Andrew Vaughn, who’s already at 1.2 war in less than 35 games played. Now, moving to the pitching side of the ball. Every player that has logged at least 22 innings pitched has been a positive player other than Tyler Alexander, who’s been really bad for the Brewers this year. And they’re 12 in and 28 when he touches the field. So imagine if he didn’t play baseball this year, things would be even crazier for the Brewers. But either way, whether it’s a starter, a reliever, or even an infielder, outfielder, bench player, anything on this Brewers roster, they’re valuable and they’re worth having on the team. This makes the Brewers depth elite. And again, I think they’re changing the way that teams are going to go into roster building. I think the quantity of good players rather than the quality of the fewer good players might become more of a big deal in MLB. Having 26 guys that can all contribute rather than having five stars, it goes a long way. Think about teams like the Yankees. They might have Aaron Judge and Cody Bellinger and some stars here and there, but the replacement level players are not as good as a team like the Brewers. And I think that that’s how the Brewers are winning these games. They can just beat you at the bottom of the lineup. And teams like the Yankees just can’t really do that as much as they would want to. So, I think teams might start taking a more Brewerlike approach in upcoming seasons. And again, I think the Brewers are one of the first teams that are figuring that out. I hope you enjoyed this very long breakdown of the Milwaukee Brewers. Please consider leaving a like for the amount of research and time that went into this video. Consider subscribing and thank you for watching. I really appreciate it.

The Milwaukee Brewers have been on a historic tear in the 2025 season, recently achieving a franchise-record 14-game winning streak, driven by a combination of relentless offensive pressure, clutch performances, and solid pitching. Their aggressive, up-tempo style, characterized by long at-bats, constant base runners, and fast baserunning, has stressed opposing defenses, leading to errors and unearned runs. Key moments include Andruw Monasterio’s pinch-hit three-run homer against the Reds and William Contreras’ walk-off homer, showcasing their ability to deliver in high-pressure situations. The team’s pitching, led by Brandon Woodruff’s return from injury with a 1.65 ERA, has been a backbone, while their pesky rallies and strategic plays, like surprise bunts, have kept opponents off balance. With a league-leading run differential (+159) and the best home and road records, the Brewers have surged to the top of MLB standings, undefeated in August and 29-4 since July 6.

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