The only thing on The Miz's mind is building on his latest masterpiece

ANAHEIM – Jacob Misiorowski will be on the mound Sunday at Angel Stadium in the Brewers’ final game before Monday’s 5 p.m. CT Trade Deadline. Yes, he’s been following developments. But no, he hasn’t spent too much time thinking about the possibility the Brewers could fortify the staff around him.

“I’m looking at the guys that we have,” Misiorowski said. “I think we have a shot with this team.”

Misiorowski has been fronting a young starting staff that, at the moment, is composed entirely of pitchers who entered this season with less than two years of Major League experience. That includes the well-traveled Kyle Harrison, who is poised to return from the 15-day injured list on Wednesday against the Pirates.

The next two days will tell whether that’s the Brewers’ only addition to the staff this week. They are in the market for starters and relievers, and have signaled a more aggressive approach than recent years that included interest in the top arm available: Tigers ace Tarik Skubal.

But that won’t be happening. On Saturday night, the Dodgers reached an agreement to send three top prospects to Detroit for the left-handed ace, besting other suitors like the Brewers, Yankees and Cubs.

“Obviously it would be awesome if you get a guy like that,” Misiorowski said before Friday's 3-1 win against the Angels, when Skubal was still on the table. “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.”

In Misiorowski, the Brewers have a frontrunner for the NL Cy Young Award as the calendar flipped to August. In a final, remarkable start of July, he struck out the first seven Rockies batters to set a Brewers franchise record for strikeouts to start a game. He went on to strike out 12 of the first 13 batters who stepped to the plate and retired the first 14 before Colorado’s Cole Carrigg homered with two outs in the fifth.

Misiorowski set a record for the pitch-tracking era for triple-digit velocity, throwing all 66 of his fastballs at least 100 mph. It was total dominance, no matter what you think of the Rockies’ roster, and Misiorowski wasn’t aware of any of those details until he was informed after his 83-pitch, five-inning outing.

“I think it’s so funny I get flak because I don’t realize what I’m doing,” he said. “It’s like, ‘Dude, I don’t give two [shakes] about strikeout records. I’m trying to get a win.’ There’s no thought about getting one more K or not giving up a hit.

“If you start thinking about anything other than execution, it’s the end of the story. It’s not going to go your way. It doesn’t work like that.”

Misiorowski will enter Sunday with a Major League-leading 1.58 ERA and 185 strikeouts through his first 20 starts this season and will pitch opposite Angels right-hander Walbert Ureña, an impressive 22-year-old with a 2.70 ERA through his first 19 games (17 starts).