{"id":559896,"date":"2026-02-07T17:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/559896\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T17:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:42:19","slug":"brewers-best-and-worst-case-scenarios-for-2026-second-base-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/559896\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers\u2019 Best and Worst Case Scenarios For 2026: Second Base – Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Brewers were blessed in 2024 and 2025, as Brice Turang<\/a>\u2019s offense took some quantum leaps in each of those seasons. He went from a barely adequate starter to a perennial Platinum Glove threat with a lethal offensive profile, posting a 121 OPS+ and racking up 28 doubles and 18 home runs. He\u2019s also been reliable, playing in 311 out of 324 games the last two seasons.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tLet\u2019s see how second base breaks down for your 2026 Milwaukee Brewers.\n<\/p>\n

\tBrewers Second Base 2025 Review<\/p>\n

\n\tTurang, who won a Gold Glove and the Platinum Glove in 2024, posting 4.7 WAR per Baseball Reference, managed to be even better in 2025. His OPS and OPS+ were the best among any Brewer with more than 300 at-bats. His defense was still superb, even if he was robbed of the Gold Glove by Nico Hoerner<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe only drop-off\/regression that Brewers fans saw was a decline in stolen bases, from 50 to 24, a career low for Turang, who was also caught a career-high eight times. Then again, Turang\u2019s power surge upped his WAR to 5.6 in 2025, per Baseball Reference.\n<\/p>\n

\tBrewers Current Roster Situation <\/p>\n

\n\tTurang is the incumbent starter and is arguably on the cusp of eclipsing Rickie Weeks<\/a> as the best second baseman in team history. He\u2019s blown past other notables at the position like Fernando Vina<\/a> and Jim Gantner<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tCaleb Durbin<\/a> and Andruw Monasterio<\/a> each saw ten games at second in 2025. Both would be capable choices at the position, but the offensive and defensive prowess of Turang would be noticeably absent. Other players with some experience at the position on the 40-man roster and among the NRIs are Tyler Black<\/a>, Anthony Seigler<\/a>, Eddys Leonard<\/a>, Jesus Made<\/a>, Cooper Pratt<\/a>, Eduardo Garcia<\/a>, and Jett Wiliams.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the high minors, the Brewers also have Ethan Murray<\/a> and Freddy Zamora<\/a>, while further down on the farm, Josh Adamczewski<\/a>, Luis Pena<\/a>, Jadyn Fielder<\/a>, and Filippo di Turi could be fast risers in the organization due to their bats. In short, in the next few years, the Brewers could have the proverbial overflowing cup at second.\n<\/p>\n

\tBrewers Second Base Best-Case Scenario<\/p>\n

\n\tBrice Turang gets roughly 140 starts at second base, getting time off from the presence of players like Black and Williams, while delivering 2025\u2019s at the plate profile with 2024\u2019s basepath production. Turang could be a 20-50 player for the next few years with Gold Glove-caliber defense. This is one area where Milwaukee may not get pure power, but a guy who takes extra bases and steals bases can be very useful in scoring runs.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHI paying fewer games would not be a bad thing, either: He\u2019s played 155 games the last two seasons, but the team did appear to run out of gas against the Dodgers in the 2025 NLCS, and a few more games off might help the team out in October. There are plenty of options.\n<\/p>\n

\tBrewers Second Base Worst-Case Scenario<\/p>\n

\n\tAndruw Monasterio sees more than 20 games at second base. This is not because Monasterio would be horrible \u2013 in fact, he\u2019s a competent option at the position. The problem would be that Turang and other higher-ceiling options were injured or ineffective, leaving the Brewers no choice but to go further down their depth chart.\n<\/p>\n

\tOverview<\/p>\n

\n\tThere are a lot of ways for second base to go very well for Milwaukee, both for 2026 and the long term. Turang is probably the most familiar option, and if he is a 20-50 player, it will be hard for the Crew to get any better than his performance \u2013 or keep him around past 2027 (free agency and a massive payday will beckon).\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThat said, if Caleb Durbin gets a lot of time at second, due to Turang moving to shortstop to fill in for a slumping Joey Ortiz<\/a>, that\u2019s not a bad outcome for Milwaukee, either. Neither is Jett Williams<\/a>, Cooper Pratt, or Tyler Black taking playing time. Later in the season, one of Made, Adamczewski, Pena, or Garcia could be a viable choice.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tBrewers fans will likely have some very talented second basemen in the near future \u2013 worthy successors or complements to their current one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brewers were blessed in 2024 and 2025, as Brice Turang\u2019s offense took some quantum leaps in each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[40216,5,136,3800,843,59,4280,4,16282],"class_list":{"0":"post-559896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-brewers","8":"tag-2026-season","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-brewers","11":"tag-brice-turang","12":"tag-milwaukee","13":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","14":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-second-base"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116030586517103073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}