Brice Turang’s rise reached another level on Sunday, and the Brewers second baseman finished it by putting his name beside some of the biggest players in franchise history.
Milwaukee’s season finale against the St. Louis Cardinals didn’t even get out of the first inning before Turang crossed a major milestone.
He entered the day with 99 RBI and got to 100 on an RBI single, part of a four-hit start for the Brewers that opened the game with four straight singles. That swing made Turang just the eighth player in franchise history to post 100 runs scored and 100 RBI in the same season.
The list he joined is a loaded one: Robin Yount, Cecil Cooper, John Jaha, Jeromy Burnitz, Prince Fielder, Ryan Braun and Christian Yelich. Now Turang is there too.
It’s a fitting checkpoint for a season that marked the best regular-season performance of his four-year MLB career. Turang finished with a 7.3 bWAR after opening his career at 1.5 bWAR as a rookie, a sharp climb that reflects just how much his game has grown. He set career highs in home runs with 21, doubles with 37, RBI with 100, on-base percentage at .366, slugging percentage at .450 and OPS at .816.
The offensive jump didn’t come out of nowhere. Turang carried the breakout he showed late in the 2025 season into this year, and he kept building even after some uneven stretches.
August was rough - he posted only a .513 OPS that month - but he finished strong enough to erase plenty of the noise. In September, he hit .361/.475/.602 with four homers and 22 RBI, the kind of closing kick that can reshape a season.
His value wasn’t limited to the bat. Turang’s defense, which stood out enough to win a Platinum Glove in 2024, slipped a bit in 2025 before bouncing back this season. That makes him all but certain to be in the Gold Glove conversation again.
Turang led the Brewers in hits, RBI and runs scored, and his overall year was a big reason Milwaukee put together a record-breaking 2026 regular season. More than that, he’s gone from a rookie who struggled badly at the plate to a player now showing up on the same franchise lists as Yount, Braun and Yelich.
The progression has been clear: first he improved his bat-to-ball skills in 2024, then he added power in 2025, and in 2026 he tied it all together. Milwaukee will need that full package again in the postseason.
Turang was excellent in the Brewers’ three-game NL Wild Card Series against the New York Mets in 2024, then less effective during the 2025 playoff run. If the Brewers are going to chase the World Series goal they’ve been building toward, they’ll need the version of Turang that showed up at the end of this season.
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