After just five starts, Misiorowski is an All-Star
Brewers rookie Jacob Misiorowski comments on becoming an All-Star after just five starts. Misiorowski was interviewed American Family Field on July 11, 2025.
Milwaukee Brewers fans would take a World Series title regardless of circumstances. Heck, for a franchise that hasn’t been to the World Series in nearly 45 years, even just winning the NL pennant would set the town ablaze.
But an interesting column from Los Angeles Times sports writer Bill Shaikin throws in another detail: Could the Brewers actually alleviate concern about a labor stoppage by winning it all? Would their presence in the top tier of MLB teams actually make them, in a way, “America’s team?”
As the Brewers play in Los Angeles facing a Dodgers team against whom the club has had uncommon success in 2025, the Brewers are rising more and more into status of bona fide contender. The smallest market in MLB hasn’t won a playoff series since 2018 and has precious little World Series history, but it’s also been a regular playoff qualifier in recent years.
With the salary cap a central issue in labor negotiations and the threat of a work stoppage looming after the 2026 season, a Brewers championship would represent an ideal outcome for those opposed to a salary cap, proof that the current MLB ecosystem allows for light-spending MLB teams to thrive.
“If you’re the union, you’ll say expanded playoffs offer every team the chance to win a wild-card spot and get hot in October, as the 84-win Arizona Diamondbacks did two years ago,” Shaikin wrote. “But, should the Brewers win the World Series this year, owners certainly would call it the exception that proves the rule.
“Over the last seven years, the Brewers have made the playoffs as many times as the Yankees have. Yet, for all their success in the regular season, the Brewers have not won a postseason series since 2018.”
Baseball hasn’t lost any regular-season games to work stoppage since the notorious 1995 strike season. It’s a strange position to occupy: Brewers success works against the idea that the game needs a salary cap, even though a cap would stand to greatly improve the quality of competitiveness for teams like the Brewers.