The Post\u2019s Mark W. Sanchez previews the NL\u00a0Central:<\/p>\n
1. Milwaukee Brewers<\/p>\n
O\/U wins: 84.5<\/p>\n
Key player: Jacob Misiorowski. With Freddy Peralta a Met and expectations for a rehabbing Brandon Woodruff unclear, the front of the rotation belongs to \u201cThe Miz.\u201d Coming off a roller-coaster rookie season \u2014 in which the phenom began his career with 11 no-hit innings, eventually fell out of the rotation, and then took another star turn in October \u2014 there are questions about whether a pitcher who can throw 104 mph can survive in a rotation for a complete season. If he can, there are few in the game with more potential.<\/p>\n
Player who\u2019ll need to step up: Jackson Chourio. Is it possible that a solid outfielder who posted a .770 OPS at 21 was a disappointment? Such are the expectations around Chourio, who took a half-step back during a still-solid sophomore season before elevating his game in October. There is MVP potential within one of the young faces of the game, and it would not be a shock if he puts the offense on his shoulders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Post\u2019s Mark W. Sanchez previews the NL\u00a0Central: 1. Milwaukee Brewers O\/U wins: 84.5 Key player: Jacob Misiorowski.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,136,24,50,843,59,4280,4,81741,877,35,64,185,428,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-643164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-brewers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brewers","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-cincinnati-reds","12":"tag-milwaukee","13":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","14":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-mlb-preview-2026","17":"tag-paul-skenes","18":"tag-pete-crow-armstrong","19":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-plus","22":"tag-st-louis-cardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116291638913751106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643164","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=643164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}