Jacob Misiorowski doesn’t just bring power to the mound. He’s brought a fastball that has warped the numbers around it.
As the Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays get set for the World Series, one of the biggest talking points is the Brewers’ young right-hander and the kind of velocity he can reach. Misiorowski has built his season around a heater that has been nothing short of outrageous, and the numbers behind it are hard to ignore.
Codify Baseball put it bluntly: “There have been 412 pitches thrown by MLB starters at 102+ MPH in the entire pitch tracking era and Jacob Misiorowski threw 365 of them this season. It's completely ridiculous,”
That kind of pitch volume at that kind of speed is the headline, but the bigger test now is whether Misiorowski can stretch it deeper in a game. That’s the question hanging over him in the World Series.
He hasn’t been at his sharpest in the postseason, though he also hasn’t been anything close to a problem for Milwaukee. In his first two starts, he logged just 8.1 innings total and needed at least 88 pitches in each outing. Even so, he gave up only one earned run against the Los Angeles Dodgers and two against the San Diego Padres.
The Brewers know what they have in him. Misiorowski is viewed as one of the most gifted young pitchers in the game, with some even believing his fastball could go down as the best in MLB history.
What Milwaukee still needs from him is length. He hasn’t gone beyond 6.1 innings in any start since Aug. 2, and while that could raise a few eyebrows, there are reasons the Brewers have been comfortable handling him that way. Their bullpen is considered one of the best in Major League Baseball, and the club leans heavily on its relievers to close out games once the starter hands things off.
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The performance against Tampa Bay took that power to another level, even by postseason standards. Misiorowskis velocity put him in a class all his own on baseballs biggest stage, and it only added to the sense that the Brewers may have something special in their rotation as the pressure rises. The only real question now is how far that arm can carry them when the games matter most. [Read more 🡒]
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Springsteen had been watching the Brewers and wanted to connect with Murphy, which made the exchange even more meaningful. Murphy described the conversation as easy, and he spoke about the impact Springsteens music has had on him and his teams over the years. It was a reminder that the Brewers postseason run has started to reach beyond the field, in ways that can surprise even the people closest to it. [Read more 🡒]