With 10 games left in the regular season, the Milwaukee Brewers are sitting at 95-57 and owning the best record in baseball once again. They’ve already wrapped up their fourth straight National League Central title, and they’re still chasing the top seed in the playoffs.
A huge reason for that run has been Jacob Misiorowski. After fading late in 2025 and ending up in the bullpen, he has turned into Milwaukee’s ace and is lined up to start Game One in every postseason series the Brewers play.
That kind of rise is exactly why MLB analyst Keith Law is now admitting he missed on Misiorowski as a prospect. Milwaukee took the towering right-hander in the second round of the 2022 MLB Draft, and four years later he’s not just a starter - he’s a two-time NL All-Star and the favorite to win the 2026 NL Cy Young.
Law wrote Thursday about current big leaguers he was wrong on, and Misiorowski was the first name he tackled. He said:
“I know I wasn’t alone in my belief that Misiorowski wouldn’t hold up as a starter, either because he wouldn’t throw enough strikes or because he would break down. No one has ever thrown this hard, this much, without getting hurt.
“The delivery was still quite rough, and even with the benefit of some of the best stuff in the minors, he still walked almost 15 percent of batters during his time in Double A in 2023 and 2024. He was so inefficient that he’d hit his pitch limits before getting through five innings in the majority of his outings.
“I thought any team would try to smooth out Miz’s delivery, but that either it would cost him velocity - that the power was the result of the violence, not held back by it, because who thinks a guy throwing 100 could actually be throwing harder if he had better mechanics? - or that it wouldn’t improve his control enough to keep him a starter. Obviously, that didn’t end up being the case. His delivery and command improved and he maintained his elite velocity.”
Law also pointed to Misiorowski’s own commitment to getting better, along with the Brewers’ coaching staff, for helping him sharpen his command and stay healthy while throwing harder than any starting pitcher in the pitch-tracking era.
And the numbers back up the turnaround. With one or two starts left, Misiorowski is 15-5 with a major league-best 1.89 ERA, 243 strikeouts and a .081 WHIP. Opponents are batting just .160 against him, which is currently the lowest mark for a starter in baseball history.
Misiorowski has already answered the questions that followed him as a prospect. Now the Brewers are hoping the same kind of finish follows the team itself, as Milwaukee looks to reach the World Series for the first time since 1982 and win it for the first time ever.
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