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A Brewers-centric look at the 2026 Hall of Fame ballot

Today, ballots were mailed out to the voting members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, the group that elects players to the Hall of Fame. We’re going to take a quick look through the new and returning players on the ballot, with special attention paid to those who have ties to Milwaukee. This article’s […]

Brewers Film Room: Brice Turang

Second baseman Brice Turang was, by most measures, the Brewers’ best hitter in 2025. Turang was named to the All-MLB Second Team after posting 5.6 bWAR and slashing .288/.359/.435, all career highs. His batting average and OPS+ were also both tied for the best among Brewers’ regulars (excluding Andrew Vaughn, who had less than half […]

Potential Brewers offseason targets: Starting Pitching

With Sunday night’s news that Josh Naylor signed a five-year free agent deal to remain in Seattle, the 2025-26 baseball offseason is officially in full swing. Over the next couple weeks, we here at Brew Crew Ball will be looking at various areas on the roster, looking at how extensive the team’s need is in […]

Rounding up the rest of MLB’s awards from Thursday night

Comeback Player of the Year: Jacob deGrom (AL), Ronald Acuña Jr. (NL) DeGrom was the best pitcher on the planet for a few years, winning back-to-back Cy Young Awards in 2018 and 2019 as a member of the New York Mets. After injuries derailed his last couple of years in New York, deGrom signed with […]

2025 MVBrewers #3: William Contreras

Brewers’ catcher William Contreras slots in at No. 3 in our 2025 MVBrewers rankings, behind Freddy Peralta and Brice Turang, respectively. The BCB community voted for Contreras with 18 votes in The Feed, compared to one vote for Jackson Chourio and one vote for Quinn Priester. Contreras, who turns 28 this offseason, took a very […]

Two Brewers named to All-MLB Second Team

Starting in 2019, MLB began awarding two “All-MLB” teams, similar to the long-standing All-Pro teams that the NFL awards at the end of its season. These teams, a first team and a second team (regardless of league), are designed to reward the best players at each position. Each All-MLB teams consist of a catcher, one […]

Matt Arnold named MLB Executive of the Year for second straight year

With the Brewers’ excellent 2025 season that defied expectations, President of Baseball Operations Matt Arnold was a heavy favorite to take home the MLB Executive of the Year award. That was confirmed during the MLB Awards show tonight, as Arnold was named Executive of the Year for the second straight year. He is the first […]

Offseason Trade Target: Seth Halvorsen

Colorado Rockies closer Seth Halvorsen was drafted in the seventh round out of the University of Tennessee back in 2023 and pitched well enough in two months with the Rockies organization to earn two promotions, the second to Double-A. By August 2024, he was in the big leagues. This snowballed into a good amount of […]

Skenes, Skubal win Cy Young Awards, Peralta finishes fifth

For the second year in a row, the top of each league’s Cy Young ballot was more-or-less a foregone conclusion. Tarik Skubal of the Detroit Tigers and Paul Skenes of the Pittsburgh Pirates have taken home the AL and NL Cy Young Awards, respectively. For Skenes, this is a coronation of sorts. Last season, there […]

Brewers’ Pat Murphy wins NL Manager of the Year

After a second straight season in which the Milwaukee Brewers far outperformed preseason expectations, their manager, Pat Murphy, has been rewarded with the National League’s Manager of the Year Award. Former Brewer catcher Stephen Vogt won the award in the American League. Both men won this award last season. Prior to the 2025 season, the […]

2025 MVBrewers #2: Brice Turang

After Freddy Peralta slotted into the top spot in our rankings last week, we’re back with the No. 2 spot today. The BCB community voted for second baseman Brice Turang in the second spot, as Turang garnered 13 votes in The Feed, compared to seven votes for William Contreras and one vote apiece for Quinn […]

Drake Baldwin wins NL Rookie of the Year as Caleb Durbin finishes third

After bringing up young players like Brice Turang, Sal Frelick, and Jackson Chourio in recent years, the Brewers had another feature in this year’s Rookie of the Year in Caleb Durbin. Earning a regular spot from the get-go, Durbin’s campaign placed him among fellow National League finalists Drake Baldwin, the catcher for the Atlanta Braves, […]

Revisiting our 2025 preseason predictions, storylines to watch

Bold Predictions Paul Dietrich: The Brewers have three outfielders in the All-Star Game To be fair, I didn’t really buy this when I made this prediction in March, BUT: I was pretty wrong. The Brewers did have three All-Stars, but they were all pitchers (Trevor Megill, Freddy Peralta, and Jacob Misiorowski). Christian Yelich was at […]

2025 MVBrewers #1: Freddy Peralta

By popular demand, I’ve flipped these rankings back to ranking from the top down, with the BCB community able to weigh in via The Feed. We’re kicking off the rankings of the Brewers’ 10 most valuable players in 2025 with staff ace Freddy Peralta. Peralta finished the season with 5.5 bWAR and 3.6 fWAR, good […]

No Brewers among NL Silver Slugger winners

The Milwaukee Brewers had three finalists up for Silver Slugger awards as the best hitter at their respective positions this year, but when the awards were announced on Thursday, they were shut out. It wasn’t especially surprising, when considering the players that Milwaukee’s three finalists were up against. The first of the Brewers’ finalists was […]

Thursday news and notes: Woodruff gets QO, Weeks shifts roles

After making their remaining option decisions and releasing their spring training schedule yesterday, we have more Brewers offseason news for you today. The first is pretty big: Brandon Woodruff was one of 13 players to receive a qualifying offer before Thursday’s deadline. The Brewers already paid Woodruff a $10 million buyout when he declined his […]

Ranking the five worst games of the 2025 season

What goes up must come down. Since I just wrote an article ranking the five best Brewers games of the season, here are the five worst. No, I didn’t include every NLCS game. #5: August 25th — Giants 4, Brewers 3 This game, as some of you may remember, was the celebration of life in […]

Wednesday news and notes: TV arrangement, spring training

We’ve got a couple of small newsy items for you today. First: the Brewers have re-upped with Main Street Sports Group, which owns FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin, for the 2026 season. What this means for you is that, as of now, nothing will change in how games are distributed. FanDuel Sports Network will continue to […]

Ranking the five best Milwaukee Brewers games of 2025

Despite falling short of a World Series berth, the Brewers had one of their most successful seasons in years. Milwaukee won 97 games (including two 11-plus game win streaks) for the first time in franchise history and beat their division rivals, the Chicago Cubs, in the NLDS. Since there were also a lot of exciting […]

Brewers make three remaining option decisions

The Milwaukee Brewers this afternoon made their final option decisions (which needed to be made by Thursday). There are no real surprises, though one of those decisions could have gone either way: The Hoskins and Quintana decisions were no-brainers. Hoskins was the Brewers’ best hitter by the time the season reached late May, but as […]

Brewers’ 2026 schedule with all home game times announced

On Monday, the Brewers released their schedule for the 2026 regular season. A few notable games are below, but before we get to that, there’s a new twist in game times: all of Milwaukee’s weekday home games will now start at 6:40 p.m. In 2025, Friday games started at 7:10 p.m., while games on Monday […]

2025 MVBrewers #10: Caleb Durbin

We’re kicking off our ranking of the Brewers’ 10 most valuable players in 2025 with third baseman Caleb Durbin. Durbin finished the season with 2.9 bWAR and 2.6 fWAR, good for seventh and sixth on the team, respectively. While old for a rookie at 25 years old, Durbin has come a long way from being […]

Caleb Durbin, Pat Murphy named finalists for BBWAA Awards

Next week, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA) will announce the winners for their annual awards. Voted on by members of the organization, these are considered the most important awards from the previous regular season. Tonight, the organization unveiled their top three vote-getters for each of the awards. Two members of the Brewers were […]