The Milwaukee Brewers keep stacking wins, and the latest one pushed them into territory no other club in franchise history has reached through 110 games. A 3-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday night moved Milwaukee to 69-41, the best record in Major League Baseball and the best start the team has ever had at this point in a season.
That kind of run would normally have the entire fan base floating. Instead, the rest of baseball spent Saturday night reacting to the Los Angeles Dodgers landing two-time AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal from the Detroit Tigers, a move that only deepened the sense that Los Angeles is the team to beat.
Jacob Misiorowski isn’t buying into the doom-and-gloom. The Brewers ace was asked about the possibility of pairing with Skubal before the deal went down, and his answer made clear where Milwaukee’s head is at.
According to Adam McCalvy, Misiorowski said, “I’m looking at the guys that we have. I think we have a shot with this team.”
He was even more direct earlier, when the Skubal buzz was still just a possibility. “Obviously it would be awesome if you get a guy like that.
But that’s not for us. You can’t be a GM.
The clubhouse GM has never worked. You have to let the guys upstairs take care of it and play with the guys you’ve got.”
Milwaukee may still make another move or two before Monday’s deadline, but the bigger point is already clear: this group knows where it stands in the sport’s pecking order. The Dodgers were the benchmark before Saturday.
After the Skubal deal, that reality looks even sharper. The Brewers, though, aren’t retreating from it.
They believe they can still line up with anyone.
And if these two clubs cross paths again in October, Milwaukee would surely prefer a different ending than the four-game sweep it took the last time around.
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