The Milwaukee Brewers have spent 84 games looking every bit like one of baseball’s best teams, and that success is starting to show up in the All-Star conversation. At 53-31, Milwaukee owns the best mark through 84 games in franchise history, and after last year’s club set a team record with 97 wins, the Brewers are on pace to challenge that again in 2026.
Yet when the first round of fan voting wrapped up, no Brewers players landed among the finalists at their positions. That doesn’t shut the door on Milwaukee, though. It just means the rest of the All-Star path runs through the media and the players.
Ken Rosenthal has already weighed in, and he sees four Brewers who should be wearing National League All-Star colors: Jacob Misiorowski, Kyle Harrison, William Contreras, and Brice Turang.
Rosenthal also pointed to three “notable omissions” from his list who could still have legitimate cases: Jake Bauers, Jackson Chourio, and Trevor Megill.
Milwaukee sent three players to last year’s All-Star Game - Misiorowski, Freddy Peralta, and Trevor Megill - and this group has been even stronger at this stage than that team was a year ago. That makes the likelihood of multiple selections feel pretty natural.
Misiorowski’s situation is a little different from the rest. Because of his scheduled starts before the All-Star break, he will probably not be able to pitch in the game, though he is still expected to be named an All-Star.
Chourio’s case was complicated by the time he missed early in the season. He sat out the first month with a fractured hand, and that slow start likely kept him from collecting enough votes or attention to crack the finalist group. Without that injury, he very well could have been in the mix to start the All-Star Game.
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