Michael Trzinski

Dan or Don? 😁

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PCA looks a lot like Opie, and apparently the new earring is a magic power amulet. A 2.5% HR rate prior to this year, and now he is at 6.7%. The kid can run and play 'D' and now he has power. Starting to live up to his potential...

Much was expected of Steve Stanicek after his first two seasons as a Brewer farmhand. After being traded by San Francisco to Milwaukee during spring training in 1986, the right-handed infielder was assigned to Double-A El Paso and batted .343/.448/.583 across 582 plate appearances and was named the Texas League MVP after leading the league in several offensive categories. His 25 home runs were good for second in the league. The following season, Stanicek was promoted to Triple-A Denver and had an almost identical season, slashing .352/.396/.616 over 515 trips to the plate. What many people didn't factor into the success was that Stanicek played in two hitter-friendly ballparks. Would those numbers translate to the major leagues? Stephen Blair Stanicek was born in Lake Forest, Illinois and was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 16th round of the 1979 MLB Amateur Draft but elected not to sign. He attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and hit .449 with 29 homers and 70 RBI in just 185 at-bats. Impressed by those numbers, San Francisco made him the 11th overall pick in the 1982 draft, 14 picks in front of future teammate Dale Sveum. Stanicek played four good, not great years at Single-A and Double-A in the Giants' chain before being traded to Milwaukee. After the two stellar seasons at El Paso and Denver, Stanicek was called up in mid-September 1987 and played in just four games, going 2-for-7 and getting his first big league hit off Detroit closer Willie Hernández in his second game. The following year, Stanicek had knee surgery in early March and was sent back to Denver to start the sesaon. After playing in only 27 games with Denver while battling a thigh injury, Stanicek was released by the Brewers in October. The Philadelphia Phillies signed Stanicek to a minor league contract in January 1989. He spent the majority of the season at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and batted .285/.337/.443 over 406 ABs before getting called up for a sip of Starbucks in Philadelphia in September. Stanicek played in just nine games, going 1-for-9 serving only as a pinch-hitter. In 1990, Stanicek returned to S/W-B and played in a career-high 127 games and batted .282/.369/.407 but was released by Philadelphia after the season. Stanicek signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates in a minor league deal in early 1991 but was released during spring training. After his playing career, Stanicek coached high school baseball and retired after 23 years in 2023, including the last 10 years at Glenbrook (IL) South High School. He also coached at two other schools prior to that. He was also an assistant football coach for 25 at various schools. Stanicek was inducted into the Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2019. During his nine-year minor league career, Stanicek batted .293/.372/.470 across 3,465 plate appearances, Yet his major league career consisted of 16 trips to the plate. He never played a defensive position in the big leagues. Why was he not given a chance by Milwaukee or Philadelphia? View full player

I believe that the Brewers are willing to keep Durbin at third, as he has an OPS of .766 (.366/.400) over the last month. While not great, it is pretty solid. Joey Ortiz might be another story. If a decent SS can be found, they might reach for him externally. Outfield and pitching staff look pretty good, so there is no immediate need there.

Proving that versatility is a valued asset by major league teams, Jake Elmore spent parts of six seasons in the bigs, starting games at every position save pitcher and catcher, but he even played at those spots. In fact, Elmore pitched and caught in the same game on August 19, 2013 for the Houston Astros. He entered the game in the third inning behind the plate when catcher Carlos Corporan left with concussion-like symptoms after being hit by a foul tip. With the Astros trailing Texas, 16-5, in the eighth inning, Elmore came on to pitch for Houston and retired all three batters he faced. Jacob David Elmore was born in Dothan, Alabama but after moving, attended Pleasant Grove High School, just outside Birmingham. Elmore graduated in 2005, having been named to the Alabama Class 5A All-State football team as a defensive back, and was named to the All-State baseball team as well. Elmore attended Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, Alabama for two years before transferring to Arizona State University. After electing not to sign with the Florida Marlins after being drafted in 2007, he signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks after being picked in the 34th round of the 2008 MLB Amateur draft. Elmore played five seasons in the D-Backs’ organization before getting called up to Arizona in 2012, where he played the last two months of the season. Elmore batted .191/.247/.250 and was released after the season and was signed by Houston. The utility player split time between the minors and bigs over the next three years, playing for Houston (2013), Cincinnati (2014), and Tampa Bay (2015) before signing with Milwaukee after the 2015 campaign. Elmore played all three outfield spots, plus second base and third base for the Brewers in 2016. He split the season between Triple-A Colorado Springs and Milwaukee, playing roughly 50 games for each team. He was called up in late June and played the rest of the season for the Brewers and batted .218/.371/.244 across 99 plate appearances, drawing walks at a 17% clip. After the season, Elmore elected free agency and over the next three seasons, played in the minors for Toronto, Miami, Chicago White Sox, and Pittsburgh before getting into 20 games in two stints during the 2019 season with Pittsburgh. Once again, he was granted free agency and although he signed with Pittsburgh (again), Cleveland, and Philadelphia, he did not appear in the big leagues again. In February 2022, Elmore was hired by the Phillies to serve as hitting coach at Low-A Clearwater. Over the next two seasons, he was promoted to minor league lower level hitting coordinator for the Phillies and then minor league hitting coordinator. View full player

Our 'Sissyfuss' has pushed the rock up the hill enough. Time for him to get his reward!!

And it certainly looks like Yeli has stepped up the pace, batting .415/.492/.774 over his last 53 ABs, including six HRs and 15 RBI. Hopefully he can stay healthy and continue to play well.

The little Asian American from Hawaii was a good enough player that he spent 11 seasons in the major leagues and was also an astute baseball man who coached or managed in the A’s, Angels, Giants, and Rockies organizations for nearly 20 years. He also coached and managed in Japan. Lenn Haruki Sakata was born in Honolulu and attended college at Gonzaga University. After choosing not to sign with San Francisco (1972) and San Diego (1974), he signed with Milwaukee in 1975 as the 10th pick in the secondary phase of the January draft. The 5-foot-9 infielder spent a season at Double-A Thetford Mines and one-plus seasons at Triple-A Spokane before getting called up to Milwaukee in July 1977. He made 15 straight starts at second base for Milwaukee in July/early August and would split time at the position with Don Money. Sakata started 0-for-12 but got his first big league hit off Ron Guidry of the Yankees. Two days later he hit his first HR off Dennis Martinez of the Orioles. His batting average got as high as .216 but dropped to .162 at the end of the season after an 0-for-25 skid over the last month. Sakata won the second base spot in 1978 and started nearly every day for the first five weeks despite batting under .200. But when Robin Yount ended his holdout in mid-May, Paul Molitor moved from shortstop to second base and Sakata was out of a job. Sakata ended with 78 at-bats and a hitting line of .192/.267/.244 with four doubles. Even though Sakata batted .500 (7-for-14) in four games for the Brewers in 1979, he spent most of the season at Triple-A Vancouver. He requested a trade after the season and was dealt to Baltimore in December. Sakata played with the Orioles from 1980-1985. In 1981, he took over the shortstop position from eight-time Gold Glover Mark Belanger. In July 1982, he was replaced by Cal Ripken, Jr., who began his long consecutive games played streak. Sakata moved to second base and had his best season offensively, setting career highs in every category. He played just 36 games over the 1986-87 seasons with Oakland and the New York Yankees and retired from baseball before beginning his long coaching and managing career. Sakata was named by Sports Illustrated as one of the 50 greatest sports figures in Hawaii’s history and is also a member of the Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame. View full player

Image courtesy of MLB Via Getty Image Milwaukee Brewers fans have been on the ‘Steel Vengeance’ rollercoaster ride while following the team that has been in Brew City since 1970. Regardless of age, fans have seen the ups and downs of their favorite baseball team, much like the riders of the world-famous ‘coaster in Sandusky, Ohio have experienced. In the 55 years of Brewers baseball, the team has finished with a record of .500 or better just 24 times. The best stretch of 81 or more wins was from 1978 to 1983, the origin of Bambi’s Bombers and Harvey’s Wallbangers. Since then, the longest streak of winning ball was a four-year span from 2021 to 2024. Does having a winning team equal strong attendance? Looking back to the County Stadium days, the largest single-year attendance was 2,397,131 in 1983, which was a carryover from the ‘magical’ 1982 season. The Brewers won 95 games in that season before losing to the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games in the ‘Suds Series.’ It is fair to say that winning has a positive impact on the number of fans in the stands. But what about emotion and sentiment? After the July 1999 ‘Big Blue’ crane accident that set back the opening of Miller Park one year, the Brewers would be forced to play at County Stadium for one more season. The only two dates in 2000 that featured an attendance figure of more than 50,000 were Opening Day (April 9), on which 53,509 people celebrated the last home opener, and the final game (September 28), on which 56,354 fans said goodbye to the old ballpark. In the other 79 home games, Milwaukee drew an average of 18,528. Perhaps fans simply wanted to see the new ballpark open. Welcome to Miller Park! In 2001, President George W. Bush and 42,024 fans welcomed the Brewers to Miller Park and saw a 5-4 Brewers win, courtesy of Richie Sexson’s eighth-inning home run. Fans flocked to the park to the tune of 2,811,041 during the year despite the Brewers’ woeful 68-94 campaign. Perhaps they just wanted to see the roof open or close, which the Brewers operated every game for a large part of the season before they realized it would cause excessive wear and tear on the retractable roof. Skipping ahead a quarter-century, let’s talk a little about how fans perceive the team depending on the Brewers’ fortunes. Are Brewer fans ‘fair-weather’ or will they pledge their allegiance no matter what? In three recent polls on Brewer Fanatic, readers were asked: · Do you approve of the job Pat Murphy is doing as Brewers manager? · Will the Brewers make the postseason in 2025? · How many games will the Brewers win in 2025? How is manager Pat Murphy doing? On March 31, when the Brewers started the season 0-4, about 50% of the poll respondents thought Murphy was doing a good job. His highest approval rating, about 95%, in April and May occurred on April 12, following the Brewers' win of four of their last five games. It hit rock bottom on April 26 when no one liked Murph. That was after a four-game losing skein. The approval rate rose in early May after three straight wins but sank to its lowest point again on May 11, following a trio of losses. His approval rate was about 91% on May 27, when the Brewers were in the midst of an eight-game winning streak. Survey says: the Brewers fans like Murphy when the team wins. Will the Brewers make the postseason? Fans were optimistic to start the season, but then came three losses to the hated Yankees and one to the Royals as March ended. Oops. Fans were largely positive in the first three weeks of April, despite the Brewers' 12-11 record as of April 21. From about May 7 until Memorial Day, more fans thought that the Brewers would NOT make the playoffs. A 9-9 record in that timeframe, combined with the fact that they had been mired in third place in the NL Central, probably had something to do with the polling results. Our fine fandom is more positive since Milwaukee won nine of its last 10 contests as May turned to June. Conclusion: fans are concerned about the Cubs and Cardinals, as well; they should be. Neither team is showing any signs of weakness. At least not yet. How many games will the Brewers win? In April, the consensus was that the Brewers would win somewhere in the 86-90 range. After the Brewers started May with just three wins in nine games, the faithful lowered their collective expectations to the 81-85 win range. Then, after going 5-4 in the next nine games, Brewer partisans got hopeful, and approximately 50% of the poll respondents were ready to give the Brew Crew a chance to win 91-95 games. Belief that the Brewers would perform that well quickly subsided over the next few days, but rose slowly at the end of the month. The numbers have fluctuated, but generally, fans expect Milwaukee to win between 81 and 90 games. I’m not entirely convinced that winning or losing games has a positive or negative impact on fans’ perceptions of the team. Still, it is enjoyable to review the season and compare the success (or failure) to what our astute readers share in our poll results. Tell us what you think in the comments section. Is your perception of the team colored by win/loss record? Is the T-Dog (author) full of it? Please let us know, and thank you for reading! View full article

He might get bumped up to Biloxi later this summer.

Image courtesy of © Dave Kallmann / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images One of last month’s honorable mentions—John Holobetz—was traded to the Boston Red Sox organization. Logan Henderson, also an honorable mention for March/April, pitched mostly with Milwaukee in May and acquitted himself quite nicely. Here is the link to the March/April Minor League Starting Pitchers of the month. Without further fanfare, here are the eight pitchers feted as the May Minor League Starting Pitchers of the Month by Brewer Fanatic. Honorable Mentions Brandon Woodruff, Nashville/Wisconsin – 4 G, 4 GS, 18.1 IP, 1-0, 1.47 ERA, 1.091 WHIP, 17 H, 3 BB, 17 K. Tyler Renz, ACL Brewers – 4 G, 3 GS, 19.9 IP, 1-1, 2.37 ERA, 1.211 WHIP, 20 H, 3 BB, 17 K. Melvin Hernandez, Carolina Mudcats – 5 G, 3 GS, 26.1 IP, 1-3, 3.76 ERA, 1.372 WHIP, 32 H, 4 BB, 20 K. TOP FIVE STARTING PITCHERS FOR MAY #5 – Tanner Gillis, Carolina Mudcats/Wisconsin Timber Rattlers - 5 G, 3 GS, 28.0 IP, 1-1, 1.93 ERA, 1.036 WHIP, 22 H, 7 BB, 16 K Gillis was named to the first team All-Horizon League at Northern Kentucky in 2024. Prior to that, Gillis pitched at Cedarville (OH) University, an NCAA Division II school, for four years. The Brewers signed Gillis as a non-drafted free agent in September 2024. The 6-foot-2, 210-pound right-hander began his pro career in 2025 at Carolina and pitched in seven relief appearances before being promoted to the T-Rats in mid-May. He won one game and saved another for the Mudcats with an ERA of 1.32. Gillis pitched well in his Midwest League debut against Beloit, allowing just three hits, one run, and two walks while striking out three in a six-inning no-decision. In his second start at South Bend, Gillis went six innings, allowed seven hits and three runs in a 6-2 loss to the Cubs. Gillis earned his first MWL win at home against Peoria on May 30, going seven strong innings, allowing four hits and one unearned run. He had a decent K rate in Carolina, striking out 24.6% of batters faced while working out of the pen. In a smaller sample for the T-Rats—and a different role—Gillis has only struck out batters at an 11% clip in his three starts. Check out the reaction time on a rocket back through the box by Gillis in this video: #4 – Bishop Letson, Wisconsin Timber Rattlers - 2 G, 2 GS, 10.2 IP, 1-0, 0.84 ERA, 0.938 WHIP, 6 H, 4 BB, 13 K Letson, who finished third in April’s MiLB Starting Pitcher Of The Month ranking, has been slowed by a sore shoulder in May. He made two starts early in the month but was sidelined after May 9. The lanky (6-foot-4, 170-pound) righty was the 11th-round pick of the Brewers in 2023. His best pitch is a slider, which has a CV of 50 and an FV of 60. Overall, this season, Letson has struck out batters at a 30% rate, while walking only 7% of the batters he faces. Letson set a career-high with nine strikeouts on May 2 against West Michigan. In five innings, Letson allowed three hits and one walk in a 6-1 win. Six days later, in Peoria, he left after 5.2 innings with the score tied 2-2. The T-Rats scored a run the next inning to take a 3-2 win. Letson allowed three hits, two runs (one earned), and three walks. He struck out four batters in the game. #3 – Tate Kuehner, Biloxi Shuckers – 5 G, 5 GS, 26.0 IP, 3-0, 2.08 ERA, 1.154 WHIP, 16 H, 14 BB, 34 K The sole lefty on this month’s squad, the 6-foot-1, 195-pound Illinois product, was a seventh-round pick in 2023. Used mostly as a reliever in his four years at the University of Louisville, Kuehner has started 30 of 35 games in his professional career. After a nice season in 2024 with the Timber Rattlers, Kuehner moved up to Double-A Biloxi at the end of the year. Kuehner needs to work on his control, as he has walked batters at nearly a 16% clip with the Shuckers. His five starts in May have been a mixed bag but he pitched well enough to earn three wins as the Shuckers went 5-0 in his starts. His only really bad game came on May 3 against Columbus, when he allowed two hits, four runs, and five walks while whiffing nine Clingstones. Eight days later against Pensacola, Kuehner gave up five hits, one unearned run, and one walk in a 5-1 win over the Blue Wahoos. On May 17, he held the Montgomery Biscuits hitless over 5 2/3 innings while walking three. He notched his third win of the month over Knoxville on May 17, and finished off the month with 5 2/3 solid innings (five hits, one run, one walk, eight K’s) over the Rocket City Trash Pandas. In Kuehner’s 10 starts, Biloxi has scored only 12 runs yet won six of those games. #2 – Jacob Misiorowski, Nashville Sounds – 6 G, 6 GS, 28.2 IP, 2-2, 2.83 ERA, 1.290 WHIP, 22 H, 15 BB, 35 K What more can be said about Miz? Here’s something you may not know. Aaron Ashby, Andy Ashby, and Joe Boever all attended the same college as Miz: Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri. So did Travis Phelps and former Brewer farmhand Lance Burkhart. See, you learn something new every day. Misiorowski started off May well, earning wins over Gwinnett and Norfolk, allowing a combined seven hits, one run, and five walks while striking out 16 in 12 2/3 innings. He took a no-decision against Memphis on May 15, allowing four hits, one run, and one walk in seven innings. Then came two games where he struggled a bit against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and Indianapolis, giving up a combined eight hits, three runs, and three walks in seven innings total. He was tagged with his first loss of the year after leaving the game with a pitch count of 87 in four innings. In his final game of the month on May 31, Misiorowski got beat up, giving up three hits, five runs, and six free passes in an 8-4 loss to Indianapolis. The tall, talented righty took his lumps the last three times out, so unfortunate as it may be, Miz might be injured or simply tuckered out. Miz really has nothing left to prove at Triple A, so at some point this year he will probably get the call to the bigs. #1 – Tyson Hardin, Wisconsin Timber Rattlers - 5 G, 5 GS, 30.0 IP, 2-1, 1.50 ERA, 0.933 WHIP, 26 H, 2 BB, 33 K A 12th round pick in the 2024 draft, the 6-foot-2, 185-pound righthander was the fifth-best starter in the Brewers organization last month as ranked by Brewer Fanatic's MILB Starting Pitcher piece but climbed to the top in May. Hardin was basically a reliever in college, making only two starts in 40 appearances. That has all changed this year, as Hardin made nine starts with a good deal of success. His BB rate this year is 3.2%, including 28 consecutive innings without a free pass in May. Hardin has struck out 28.6% of batters faced in those nine starts. The K-BB rate of 25.4% is very impressive. Other than one bad outing, Hardin has been very good in three out of his four starts this month. He had a no-decision in a tough luck 1-0 loss to West Michigan in which he pitched four-hit, scoreless ball over seven innings. Six days later at Peoria, he allowed nine hits and four runs in his only loss of the season. Hardin earned his third win of the year on a rare complete-game shutout over Beloit on May 16, allowing only two hits while striking out six. In South Bend on May 22, Hardin gave up six hits and one run in six innings, setting down eight batters on strikes. His final start on May 29 against Peoria was a ho-hum no-decision in which he went only four innings while allowing five hits, one run, and his only two walks since April 26. How did we do this month? Feel free to put us on blast or give us mad props in the comments. Either way, THANK YOU for reading Brewer Fanatic! View full article

Hall was on the bubble, either at short, third, or utility. Sexson played in 2000 but that didn't count as MP/AFF stats. He was definitely second on my 1B list. Cain was right there, too, but I thought Gomez did a little more in his time with Milwaukee. Just my humble opinion! Thanks for reading!!

It is rare that a player would require Tommy John surgery after college, go undrafted by all major league teams, and play in an Independent league before signing with a big-league club. And in the meantime, the player worked the graveyard shift stocking freezers at a large Texas grocery store chain prior to getting the call. Aaron Daniel Wilkerson was born in Fort Worth, Texas and was an NAIA All-American pitcher at Tennessee’s Cumberland University, finishing with a record of 26-1 while pitching a record 54 consecutive scoreless innings. He discovered that he pitched his final year with a frayed UCL in his right elbow, requiring TJ surgery in 2011. After being out of baseball for two years, Wilkerson spent time with three independent teams in 2013 before getting signed by the Boston Red Sox as a free agent in July 2014. The righty performed well for two years at all five minor league levels (A, A-, A+, AA, AAA) for Boston before getting traded to the Brewers just before the All-Star break in 2016. Wilkerson struggled in the second half of 2016 with an ERA of 6.42 at Triple-A Colorado Springs and was bumped down to Double-A Biloxi to start the 2017 campaign. After leading the team in wins, innings pitched, and strikeouts, Wilkerson was called up to Milwaukee in September. In his major league debut on September 15 in Milwaukee against the Miami Marlins, Wilkerson pitched one inning and struck out a pair. A start on September 20 was less than stellar, but in the final regular season game, Wilkerson pitched seven innings and allowed two hits and a run while striking out five, earning his first (and to this date only) major league victory. The following year, Wilkerson was optioned to Colorado Springs after posting an 8.22 ERA in the spring. His second time in Colorado was much better as he notched an ERA of 2.49 in 15 appearances, including 12 starts. He was called up to the Brewers in July and made only three appearances and although he rode the Milwaukee-Colorado Springs shuttle several times, did not pitch in the bigs after July 14. Wilkerson split 2019 between Triple-A San Antonio (8-2, 3.42 ERA in 17 starts) and Milwaukee. In April, Wilkerson got his first and only MLB hit, which just happened to be a home run, off Michael Wacha of the St. Louis Cardinals. Hitting prowess be damned, Wilkerson was released by the Brewers in September. Since 2021, Wilkerson has pitched in three big league organizations (Dodgers, A’s, Reds) but hasn’t made it back to the bigs. He played three years in Japan and South Korea before being signed by the Reds in early 2025 and is currently playing at Triple-A Louisville. In three major league seasons, Wilkerson appeared in 14 games (three starts) with a 65 ERA+ and a FIP of 6.10. View full player

This year marks the 25th anniversary of play at Miller Park/AmFam Field, and the Brewers will celebrate that milestone this summer, including a special day at the ballpark on Friday, July 25. Several players from each of the last 25 seasons will be at the ballyard in late July, signing autographs, working at concession stands, and manning the cash registers at retail stores inside the stadium. To help celebrate, Brewer Fanatic is presenting its All-Time Miller Park/Am Fam Field pitching staff and position player roster. Without further ado, here is Part Three of a three-part series, featuring the 13-man position player roster, based on Brewer stats only from 2001-2025. Catcher Jonathan Lucroy (2010-16) PA – 3137, HR - 79, bWAR – 17.2, OPS - .779, OPS+ - 110 Lucroy was a two-time All-Star with Milwaukee (2014, 2016) and received enough votes to finish fourth in the 2014 NL MVP race. He also led the NL with 53 two-base hits, which is tied for a single-season high for Milwaukee, along with Lyle Overbay in 2004. The right-handed batter was truly an ironman for the Brewers, especially during the 2013 and 2014 seasons, when he played in 300 games, including 255 starts behind the plate. First Base Prince Fielder (2005-11) PA – 4210, HR – 230, bWAR – 16.8, OPS - .929, OPS+ - 143 Fielder piled up all sorts of accolades during his seven-year tenure as a Brewer. He finished seventh in the NL ROY race in 2006 against a stacked field, which included winner Hanley Ramirez, Ryan Zimmerman, and Dan Uggla. The stocky southpaw made three All-Star teams, won a pair of Silver Slugger awards, and finished in the top five MVP voting three times. Fielder is the all-time career leader in Brewer history in OBP, SLG, OPS, and OPS+. His 230 home runs rank third. Second Base Rickie Weeks (2003, 2005-14) PA – 4700, HR – 148, bWAR – 12.4, OPS - .771, OPS+ - 105 The righty-swinging Weeks provided speed and power atop the Brewers lineup, hitting 15 or more home runs four times while stealing 15 or more bags five times. He hit 20+ home runs three times, including a career-high 29 jacks in 2010. Weeks was named to the NL All-Star team in 2011. Although averaging only 100 games per season during his 11-year Brewers career due to various injuries, Weeks ranks in the career top 10 in several categories, including being the leader with 125 hit by pitches. Third Base Aramis Ramírez (2012-15) PA – 1814, HR – 65, bWAR – 7.1, OPS - .815, OPS+ - 120 Ramírez is one of the few third basemen in Brewer history that held a job for a few years and performed well, as documented in the Brewer Fanatic piece, ‘In Search of a Third Sacker: The Brewers’ Never-Ending Story. Ramírez came aboard as a 34-year-old free agent and solidified the Brewers line-up. He led the NL in 2012 with 50 doubles (third in Brewer single-season history) and was named to the All-Star team in 2014. Shortstop Willy Adames (2021-24) PA – 2356, HR – 107, bWAR – 13.9, OPS - .780, OPS+ - 113 Adames came over in a trade from Tampa Bay and stepped into the role at short, giving the Brewers a power bat that they needed. The righty swinging Adames had two seasons of 30+ home runs and knocked in 112 runs last year, ranking second behind Shohei Ohtani’s 130. He also stole a career-high 21 bases in 2024. Outfielders Ryan Braun (2007-20) PA – 7340, HR – 352, bWAR – 47.2, OPS - .891, OPS+ - 134 One of the most polarizing figures in Brewers history, Braun nevertheless posted some outstanding numbers. He was named National League Rookie of the Year in 2007, despite committing 26 errors and posting a horrendous -32 defensive runs saved (DRS) in his only season at third base. Braun was named to the NL All-Star team six times, earned five Silver Slugger awards, and was named the NL MVP in 2011. Braun has the most homers in Brewers history and ranks in the top five in numerous categories. Corey Hart (2004-12) PA – 3802, HR – 154, bWAR – 15.5, OPS - .824, OPS+ - 116 The lanky Hart was an average outfielder (career -6 DRS) but had five 20+ HR seasons, along with a pair of 20+ steal campaigns. He earned All-Star status in 2008 and 2010. Hart ranks in the top 10 in several career Brewer categories, including doubles, triples, and extra-base hits. Christian Yelich (2018-25) PA – 3769, HR – 152, bWAR – 24.1, OPS - .863, OPS+ - 133 (stats thru May 20, 2025) ‘Yeli’ came over from the Marlins and became an instant fan favorite at Miller Park. In his seven-plus years as a Brewer, Yelich was the NL MVP in 2018 and probably would have won a second award in 2019 had he not suffered a fractured right kneecap that caused him to miss the last three weeks of the season. Yelich was named to three All-Star teams and earned two Silver Slugger awards. The lefty-hitting Yelich owns single-season Brewer marks for slugging percentage, on-base plus slugging, and OPS+. In addition, he is in the top 10 career-wise in several categories. RESERVES William Contreras (2023-25) Not sure if the catching depth was that bad over the years or if Contreras is that good. Either way, we are proud to put him on our All-21st Century team JJ Hardy (2005-09) Hard to believe that Hardy played more years for Baltimore than he did for Milwaukee. He was a solid defender and could play a little D, too. He is our back-up SS. Geoff Jenkins (1998-2007) 'Brett Favre' got dinged on this team because two of his best seasons were played at County Stadium prior to 2000. Despite that, his longevity, durability, and power earned him a spot as a spare OF on this team. Carlos Gómez (2010-15) ‘Go-Go’ was an excellent defender who hit with power and stole bases. The only way he knew how to play was ‘all out.’ Hernán Pérez (2015-19) Every team needs a utility played and Pérez is certainly that. In his tenure with the Brewers, he played every spot except for catcher. And he could even pitch if you needed him to. Now, the really fun part: tell us how we did! Who got snubbed, here? Who doesn't quite belong? Join the conversation. View full article

I know you 'new wave' guys aren't much for the 'olden day' stats, but in his first six starts in 2023, Teheran had a 'game score' between 57-66, which FanGraphs (how about that!) ranks as 'above average' or 'good.' Kinda went downhill after that, much like that ski-jumper that fell off the side of the ski jump ramp back when ABC had the 'Wide World of Sports.'