Jackson Chourio keeps finding October comfortable, and the Brewers keep getting a front-row seat to it.
At 22, he has already built a postseason résumé that looks nothing like a player still early in his career. Chourio has been in big spots for years, from being the youngest player around at every stop in the minors to going head-to-head with Eugenio Suarez in the Venezuelan Winter League Home Run Derby at 20, to playing for Venezuela in this year’s World Baseball Classic. In Milwaukee, he has carried that same edge into the playoffs and has led the Brewers’ offense in each of the first two postseasons of his MLB career.
The production backs it up. Across his first two postseason trips, Chourio has put up a 1.044 OPS in 47 plate appearances. That kind of output doesn’t happen by accident, and it has put him in position to start rewriting Brewers playoff history.
The biggest mark within reach is the home run record. Chourio enters the 2026 postseason tied with Ryan Braun and Orlando Arcia for the most postseason homers in Brewers history with four.
Two of those came in the 2024 postseason, both in Game 2 of the Brewers’ NL Wild Card matchup against the New York Mets. He added two more last October, including a three-run blast in Game 2 of the NLDS and a leadoff homer in Game 2 of the NLCS.
One more this year would give him the franchise lead outright.
He is also close in RBI. Chourio is five behind Braun for the most postseason RBI in Brewers history.
Braun had 16 in 27 playoff games, while Chourio already has 11 in 12 games and has driven in a run in half of those contests. If Milwaukee goes on another long run, that record is well within reach too.
There is even another lane for Chourio to climb: stolen bases. He finished September tied for the major league monthly lead with nine steals, and if that pace carries into October, he could keep moving up the Brewers’ postseason list. He has only one stolen base in his playoff career so far, but the franchise mark is just five, held by Christian Yelich.
For a player this young to already be brushing up against records owned by some of the Brewers’ best postseason performers says plenty about the way he handles the moment. Chourio has not just shown up in October - he has looked built for it.
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