Bryse Wilson is headed back to Milwaukee, and this time the Brewers are getting a familiar face who already knows how to work the middle innings at American Family Field.
According to FanSided’s Robert Murray, Wilson and the Brewers have agreed to a contract after the right-hander was designated for assignment by the Cubs on Independence Day. The exact type of deal hasn’t been announced, though Milwaukee’s full 40-man roster and Wilson’s recent track record point toward a minor league agreement.
Wilson’s return closes the loop on a winding two-year stretch that took him through Chicago, Philadelphia and back to Chicago after his last run with the Brewers ended following the 2024 season. He’s now worn six different jerseys, but his best big-league work still came in Milwaukee.
That success came after the Brewers picked him up from Pittsburgh during the 2022-23 offseason in a cash deal. Wilson had originally entered the league as a fourth-round pick by the Braves in 2016, debuted in 2018, and spent three seasons moving between Atlanta’s big-league roster and Triple-A before the Pirates acquired him at the 2021 trade deadline in the Richard Rodriguez deal.
Milwaukee turned out to be the place where Wilson found his best form. In 2023, he delivered a 2.58 ERA in 53 relief appearances, the lowest full-season mark of his career by a wide margin. He followed that with a 4.04 ERA in 34 games in 2024, including nine starts, before the Brewers moved on.
Wilson’s 2025 season with the White Sox never really got off the ground. He signed a one-year deal hoping for a longer look in a major league rotation, but he made only five starts and finished with a 6.65 ERA in 47.1 innings.
That led him to a minor league deal with the Phillies this offseason. He started 11 games for Philadelphia’s Triple-A club over the first two months of the season, then got one bullpen appearance in the majors on June 18 before being designated for assignment. The Cubs claimed him and used him in two long-relief outings, including one scoreless 4.1-inning appearance, before they also cut him loose.
Wilson cleared waivers, turned down an outright assignment to Triple-A, and now lands back in the organization where he had his most productive stretch. If he makes the Brewers’ major league roster, the expectation is that he’ll once again fill the multi-inning, low-leverage relief role that made him useful in Milwaukee the first time around.
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