{"id":680151,"date":"2026-04-21T04:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T04:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680151\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T04:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T04:16:07","slug":"aaron-ashbys-surprise-surge-has-him-leading-mlb-in-wins-for-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/680151\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Ashby\u2019s Surprise Surge Has Him Leading MLB in Wins for Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6i\">The Milwaukee Brewers have Major League Baseball&#8217;s wins leader so far in the 2026 MLB season, but it&#8217;s not who you think.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6l\">When it comes to Milwaukee, you&#8217;d think the wins leader for the club would be someone like Jacob Misiorowski or Brandon Woodruff. That isn&#8217;t the case, though. Relief pitcher Aaron Ashby is leading the Brewers \u2014 and Major League Baseball \u2014 as a whole with five wins right now. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6o\">How about that? Ashby is tied with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/stats\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Soriano of the Los Angeles Angels<\/a> for the league lead with his five wins. Ashby has appeared in 11 games so far this season for the Brewers and has a 3.21 ERA across 14 innings of work. Milwaukee has played just 21 games so far this season. That&#8217;s 12.96 percent of the 2026 season. Ashby is going to have time to rack up more wins before this season comes to a close.  <\/p>\n<p>The Brewers Reliever Has Thrived In 2026<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/01kppmyp9n85ezccc73d.jpg\" alt=\"Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Aaron Ashby\" title=\"Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Aaron Ashby\" width=\"4641\" height=\"2610\" class=\"undefined w-full w-full blur-[5px]\" q:id=\"71\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apr 10, 2026; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA;  Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Aaron Ashby (26) warms up in the teams new City Connect uniform before game against the Washington Nationals at American Family Field. Mandatory Credit: Benny Sieu-Imagn Images | Benny Sieu-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"75\">Now, of course, wins are volatile when it comes to relievers. There&#8217;s really no way to predict how many wins a reliever is going to get because it depends on the score of a game changing at a very specific point. For example, Ashby earned his fifth win of the season after pitching just 1\/3 of an inning on April 16. His fourth win of the season came on April 15 when he pitched one inning. Wins are impossible to predict for relievers, clearly. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"78\">If he can keep up this pace (five wins in 12.96 percent of the season), it would be a pace of 38 wins over the course of the 2026 season. Now, of course that&#8217;s just not going to happen. It just goes to show how wild a pace he&#8217;s on right now to kick off the season. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7b\">Right now, the record for wins in a season by a reliever is held by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-almanac.com\/recbooks\/wins-records.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former All-Star hurler Roy Face<\/a>, who racked up 18 wins in 57 appearances in 1959 as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/facero01.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">member of the Pittsburgh Pirates. <\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7e\">Ashby is just 13 wins away from tying the record on April 20. That&#8217;s pretty wild. Again, there&#8217;s no way to predict how things will shake out for relievers. There&#8217;s a chance he doesn&#8217;t earn another win all season. There&#8217;s also a chance that he racks up another five wins over the next few weeks. It&#8217;s just simply unpredictable. But Ashby has been everything the Brewers could&#8217;ve hoped for to kick off the 2026 season. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow si.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=si.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\">Follow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Brewers have Major League Baseball&#8217;s wins leader so far in the 2026 MLB season, but it&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,136,843,59,4280,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-680151","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-milwaukee","11":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","12":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116440764928714915","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680151","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=680151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}