MILWAUKEE -- From Misiorowski Mania to pocket pancakes to a club record for victories, here are 25 reasons for Brewers fans to feel thankful for 2025.
1. The Brewers Community Foundation delivered a reminder that good work is not limited to the baseball season. Fans set the record for frozen turkey donations during the annual holiday food drive with CBS 58 and Hunger Task Force, adding to the more than one million pounds of food collected and distributed in the community over the past 14 Thanksgivings.
2. 97 wins for a club record. Who saw that coming?
3. Torpedo bats, because what fun is a season without obstacles? The Brewers served up 15 home runs and 36 total runs while getting swept to start the season at Yankee Stadium, inadvertently launching a media frenzy over New York’s lumber.
4. Chad Patrick (and players like him). The rookie right-hander wasn’t supposed to make Milwaukee’s Opening Day roster, but he helped stabilize the pitching with an April 1 win over the Royals and wound up leading MLB pitchers in Fangraphs WAR. Patrick and fellow rookies Caleb Durbin and Isaac Collins proved that there’s often more to baseball than what meets the eye.
5. Brewers guest relations host and U.S. Air Force veteran Bob Kozlowski, who had a major health scare earlier this year but returned to work May 2 and performed his first God Bless America on May 4 against the Cubs.
6. Great trades. Sometimes the best deals happen in April. The Brewers’ acquisition of Quinn Priester from Boston’s Triple-A team on April 7 was a coup; they won 19 consecutive games in which Priester pitched from May-September. Along the way, Milwaukee also picked up Andrew Vaughn from the White Sox Triple-A outpost.
7. Thanks to the Brewers’ annual Kindness in MKE Day on May 17, we got to see Ryan Braun doing senior aerobics.
8. May 25 in Pittsburgh. The Brewers were three games under .500 and four outs from another loss when Durbin hit a game-tying two-out double, and the slumping Brice Turang followed with another double for the lead in what became the first of eight consecutive wins and 53 victories in the span of 69 games.
9. Walk-offs. The Brewers won 11 of them in 2025, including one on a Christian Yelich grand slam against the Red Sox at home on May 27 -- the first walk-off homer of his career.
10. Press box foul balls keep everyone on high alert. One reporter, Jack Stern, provided a highlight on June 24 when he took a tumble trying to catch a screamer right at him. Naturally, the moment was memorialized with a tape outline.
11. Miz Mania. The Brewers have never had a pitching prospect like 6-foot-7 Jacob Misiorowski, who started his career with 11-plus hitless innings, duels with the likes of Paul Skenes and Clayton Kershaw and the earliest-ever invitation to an All-Star Game. Misiorowski outings were an event, and the Brewers hope his postseason resurgence is a sign of things to come in 2026.
12. No one knew what to expect from Brandon Woodruff’s return on July 6 in Miami after nearly two years of right shoulder rehab. He delivered seven dazzling innings in the first of his 12 terrific starts, and the start of a 12-game winning streak for the Brewers. The longest-tenured Brewer will be back in ‘26.
13. Vaughn debuted July 7 against the Dodgers with a first at-bat home run off Yoshinobu Yamamoto and became a meme on FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin.
14. The Alumni Home Run Derby on July 25 featured everyone from sluggers like Prince Fielder and Braun to notable non-sluggers Nyjer Morgan and Yovani Gallardo. It was a surprise highlight of the summer.
15. Pocket Pancakes.
16. Do you believe in Uecker Magic? Brewers fan Frank Vitucci was a firm believer by the time Milwaukee put together a perfect homestand against the Mets and Pirates in August, so he brought a sign to the ballpark in honor of the late broadcast legend.
17. Epic comebacks. The Brewers’ 10-8 win in Cincinnati on Aug. 15 was one of Milwaukee’s most improbable, unforgettable wins ever. Trailing by seven runs in the second inning and with a 12-game winning streak in serious peril, Yelich’s four-hit, five-RBI performance while swinging a Uecker tribute bat fueled a 13th consecutive win, matching 1987’s “Team Streak” for the longest winning spree in franchise history.
18. Andruw Monasterio (and players like him). The following night, Milwaukee had a new “Team Streak” when the club that refused to lose tied the Reds in the ninth inning, scored again in the 10th and then saw the latest unlikely hero emerge when Monasterio came off the bench in the 11th to hammer a three-run home run for a 6-5 victory.
“Right now, they’re national news. Everybody is talking about the Brewers,” said Brewers legend Robin Yount.
19. Baseball road trips. Even, sometimes, for the writers, when flights are cancelled. Thanks for the lift from Cincy, Curt Hogg.
20. Franchise icons. Yount turned 70 on Sept. 16. Paul Molitor will turn 70 in August. They still look like they could fill out a uniform.
21. Champagne celebrations. For some reason, teams always seem to make a bigger mess while celebrating at the home of a rival, like the Brewers did at Busch Stadium on Sept. 21 after clinching a third consecutive division title.
22. A chance to fly the L. The Brewers trolled the Cubs while taking a team photo in the wake of NLDS Game 5, a victory that snapped Milwaukee’s streak of six consecutive postseason series losses. Between the long October drought, the managerial drama and the heat of the I-94 rivalry, Yelich said, “We knew it meant a little bit extra.”
23. Awards season. Going into last year, the Brewers never had a Manager of the Year Award winner or an MLB Executive of the Year Award winner. Now they’ve won both in back-to-back seasons, after Murphy and newly promoted president of baseball operations Matt Arnold were honored.
24. The future. Infielders Jesús Made (Milwaukee's No. 1 prospect and the No. 4 prospect in baseball, per MLB Pipeline) and Luis Peña (No. 2, No. 18) went into the season with stratospheric expectations and held up under the pressure, each making it to Double-A by year’s end. You can expect the Jackson Chourio comparisons to persist into next season.
25. Ueck. The Brewers celebrated the life of Wisconsin’s voice of summer on Aug. 24, but in reality, the whole season was dedicated to Uecker. Generations of fans fell in love with baseball listening to his play-by-play of great moments and laughing along when the game was a dud.
It wasn’t the same without him, but how thankful we all are to have known him in our own way.