Brewers place league-high 4 players on All-MLB Team

MILWAUKEE -- Coming off a Major League-leading 103 wins during the regular season, Brewers players led the way at the MLB Awards presented by MGM Rewards on Wednesday, with Jacob Misiorowski, Brice Turang and Jackson Chourio earning First Team honors and William Contreras recognized on the Second Team. 

The Brewers’ four honorees were the most of any team, with their World Series foe, the Rays, coming in second with three. But these All-MLB honors, which were first established in 2019, don’t use postseason play among the criteria. Instead they recognize baseball’s best at each position based on regular-season play. ​

The initiative was introduced to honor players’ full-season contributions, given that All-Star selections are based on first-half performance. Fans were asked to vote at MLB.com to help choose First and Second Team selections at each position (including three outfielders, a designated hitter, five starting pitchers and two relievers) among this year's nominees.

It’s merely the latest in a series of honors for Misiorowski, who won the NL Cy Young Award in unanimous fashion earlier in the night and was the hardest starting pitcher to hit in modern Major League history during his remarkable regular season. The 6-foot-7, 24-year-old Brewers ace finished as the MLB leader in ERA (1.80), strikeouts (252), WHIP (0.80) and opponents’ average (.157) in 174 2/3 innings while joining Justin Verlander (2019) and Pedro Martínez (2000) as the only pitchers in history with 250-plus strikeouts and a WHIP as low as 0.80. Misiorowski’s opponents’ average surpassed Martínez’s .167 in 2000 as the lowest on record for a full season.

The Yankees’ Cam Schlittler, Braves’ Chris Sale, Blue Jays’ Dylan Cease and Phillies’ Cristopher Sánchez were the other four starting pitchers on the All-MLB First Team.

In the outfield, Chourio joined the Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong and the Padres’ Fernando Tatis Jr. on the All-MLB First Team after Chourio delivered another season of 20-plus home runs and 20-plus steals. He became the first player with three 20-20 seasons prior to his 23rd birthday, and that was just the headline on a season in which Chourio set career highs in all three slash line categories plus home runs (25), stolen bases (23), adjusted OPS (129) and weighted runs created plus (130). ​

In the outfield, Chourio joined the Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong and the Padres’ Fernando Tatis Jr. on the All-MLB First Team after Chourio delivered another season of 20-plus home runs and 20-plus steals. He became the first player with three 20-20 seasons prior to his 23rd birthday, and that was just the headline on a season in which Chourio set career highs in all three slash line categories plus home runs (25), stolen bases (23), adjusted OPS (129) and weighted runs created plus (130). ​

Turang, too, had a career year, topping 20 home runs for the first time and leading the Brewers with 100 RBIs. He won his second career Gold Glove Award and became the Brewers’ first middle infielder to finish in the top three of his league’s MVP Award balloting since Robin Yount won the honor as Milwaukee’s shortstop in 1982.

At catcher, Arizona’s Gabriel Moreno was named First Team All-MLB and Contreras got the Second Team honor after hitting .270/.341/.417 with 18 homers and 94 RBIs. He became the first catcher in Brewers history to play 1,000 innings behind home plate in three consecutive seasons -- a stretch that began in 2024 when Contreras was an All-MLB First Team honoree.

This year marks the first time the Brewers had more than two players named to All-MLB teams, and the first time since 2021 (Corbin Burnes and Josh Hader) that they had multiple players on the All-MLB First Team.