Brewers Unveil Roster For NL Division Series

[Steve Drumwright]

The Milwaukee Brewers are going conventional when it comes to their 26-man postseason roster.

While some teams carry an extra position player or two in the early rounds of the playoffs, the Brewers split their 26-man roster evenly with 13 pitchers and 13 position players for the NL Division Series against the San Diego Padres.

The teams open the best-of-five series Saturday with Brewers right-hander Jacob Misiorowski facing Padres left-hander Robbie Ray. First pitch is 7:30 p.m.

Perhaps the only surprising inclusion was left-hander Kyle Harrison, whose struggles knocked him out of the starting rotation. But he showed the Brewers enough in the final two weeks of the regular season in a relief role to be on the playoff roster. First baseman Andrew Vaughn had been activated from the 10-day injured list after he dealt with an illness at the end of the regular season.

 

 

 

 

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[adambr2]

13 pitchers leads me to believe we’ll be looking at short leashes and short outings for anyone not named Misiorowski or Henderson. 

A lot of “give me 7-10 outs.”

[Just Some Guy]

I would've included Naylor and dropped Harrison, but it's a defensible unit.  I hope Harrison squares himself up and makes me look short sighted.

Also, I held out hope I'd be named to the team, so my exclusion has me gutted. 

LFG!!!!!

[Cool Hand Lucroy]

17 minutes ago, adambr2 said:

13 pitchers leads me to believe we’ll be looking at short leashes and short outings for anyone not named Misiorowski or Henderson. 

A lot of “give me 7-10 outs.”

Good point. This seems right.

And it might especially make sense if you're expecting a lot of close games where you're protecting small leads or trying to force the Padres to defend their own one- or two-run leads for 5 and 6 innings. 

You're going to churn through arms fast if you're pulling everyone at the first sign of trouble. I usually default to "offensive flexibility" in terms of postseason roster construction. But this is a "run prevention" roster, and it's hard to argue much with that approach.