The Milwaukee Brewers keep stacking wins, and they keep getting treated like a team people are waiting to believe in.
That’s the strange part. Milwaukee has already broken its franchise record from last year’s 97-win season and now sits at 98 wins, the best mark in baseball.
The Brewers also have the inside track to the top seed in the National League again, ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers. None of that has changed the way some people talk about them.
Rob Parker made that point loud and clear on MLB Now, calling Milwaukee “bologna all the way” when it comes to the postseason.
“Bologna all the way ... It's a bologna sandwich with cabbage on it, not even lettuce, that's how much I'm not buying into them," Parker said.
" ... I just cannot buy into them until I see it for myself.
I saw this team, they've done nothing but win and win and win the last four years, then you get to the postseason and the bullpen gives it up."
Parker also took aim at the pitching and said the Yankees have better depth on the mound than Milwaukee.
That argument doesn’t really hold up when you look at what the Brewers have actually put together. Their rotation owns the fifth-best ERA in baseball, and Jacob Misiorowski is front and center in the Cy Young conversation.
His 1.86 ERA leads all of baseball. Logan Henderson has a 2.51 ERA, better than any Yankees starter not named Cam Schlittler.
Dustin May, added before the trade deadline, brings playoff experience and should be fine. And Milwaukee has more behind them, with Robert Gasser, Shane Drohan and hopefully Kyle Harrison in the mix.
There’s even a case that this staff is deeper than it was a year ago. That matters, because last postseason the Brewers were leaning heavily on Freddy Peralta with the rest of the rotation still very much unsettled.
The bullpen has been just as strong. Milwaukee is tied for third in the league with a 3.42 ERA out of the pen, which makes the idea that pitching is some glaring weakness feel off-base.
The comparison to New York is shaky too, especially with Aaron Judge missing. The Yankees probably shouldn’t be the measuring stick for any contender right now.
If there’s a real concern with this Brewers team, it’s the power. Milwaukee is tied for last in baseball with 149 home runs. That’s the area that can raise real questions about a deep October run, not the pitching.
And yet the Brewers still get the same treatment they always do: under the radar, overlooked, and dismissed because they don’t look like the expensive, headline-heavy clubs with all the shine. The Dodgers, Yankees, Braves, Phillies and Red Sox tend to get the benefit of the doubt. Milwaukee usually doesn’t.
Last year, the Brewers reached the NLCS before falling to the Dodgers. This group is better than that one.
Whether that’s enough to get past Los Angeles this time is another question. In the postseason, anything can happen.
But after another regular season run to the top of the league, acting like Milwaukee is somehow not worth buying into misses the point.
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