This is a story about DL Hall, the seven-pitch middle reliever who sometimes works around traffic by design. Everything about what he's become traces back to a simple goal. "Miss the barrel. That’s what we’re paid for, so that’s all I’m trying to do.” brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

"It's uncanny." "Joey Ortiz has elite body control." On the skill that fuels Ortiz's defense prowess and is why the Brewers believe he's an indispensable fielder at shortstop ⬇️ brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

“Left-handers with that unique slot and that velo and that makeup don’t come around that often." Kyle Harrison makes his season debut tonight. Here's what the Brewers have been working on (including what they've scrapped), and why they like his upside: brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Luis Rengifo has a career -6 DRS and -18 OAA at third base, but Matt Erickson and the Brewers believe they can develop him into a solid defender. "The physical ceiling he has, I think, is impressive." On the infield guru's newest project: brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

The Brewers starter with the best Stuff+ behind Jacob Misiorowski in 2025? Chad Patrick. The curveball he added in August is pretty good, too. He can be easy to overlook in a stable of young starters, but Patrick might be one of the closest to a breakout. brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Jacob Misiorowski calls it a slider, and he can keep calling it a slider. It's effectively a cutter, though, and he and the Brewers used it as such throughout his rookie season. brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Trading Isaac Collins and Nick Mears for a middle reliever wasn't about who was more valuable in 2025; it was about who would contribute more in Milwaukee moving forward. Angel Zerpa has great stuff, and the Brewers may hold the missing link to his breakout. brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

All night long, the Brewers kept swinging at Yoshinobu Yamamoto's splitter as if they thought they were getting a fastball. "This guy's split looks like a heater." Blake Snell and Yamamoto have dismantled their offense. Now they're halfway to elimination. brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Danny Jansen tried a glove drop earlier this year to better frame low pitches. It didn't work, so he ditched it. When he joined the Brewers, catching guru Nestor Corredor suggested swiping his glove across the dirt. Why they think it's helped his receiving: brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

"He's proven to me that he's got a spot here." Why the Brewers keep giving opportunities against right-handed pitching to Anthony Seigler, whose results have yet to match his swing decisions and quality of contact ⬇️ brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Tobias Myers stopped using his changeup in games earlier this year because he couldn't throw it with fastball-like conviction. Thanks to a new split-changeup grip, he's back to throwing offspeed stuff. "It just keeps feeling better and better every day." brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Brice Turang crushes upper-deck home runs in batting practice. How much power lies beneath his slap-hitting approach? "I think there's a lot." He and the Brewers are working on pulling more balls in the air, but getting there the right way is a long road. brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Jared Koenig throws tons of fastballs over the plate, and hitters keep failing to barrel them. How? "I'm funky," he explained. How Koenig's delivery and seam effects make his sinker and cutter challenging to track, even if they don't seem that way from afar ⬇️ brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

"We already have the blueprint in Hoby Milner and how he used his stuff, and now we can use this with Grant." How the Brewers helped Grant Anderson develop an improved sweeper and clean up his mechanics ⬇️ brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Elvin Rodríguez saving the bullpen with five innings of relief was a silver lining in another blowout loss. More importantly, after some conversations following his last start, he and the Brewers finally used the pitch mix they should have from the start. brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Garrett Mitchell is fully aware of his struggles against high fastballs. He's made defending against them a significant part of his approach — not so he can crush them, but so he can force pitchers back into his damage zones. brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Tyler Alexander makes his first start tonight. The left-hander on his process on the mound, how the Rays improved his sweeper last season, and why Milwaukee is a great place for fine-tuning the rest of his arsenal ⬇️ brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

His adjustments began the year before, but after joining the Brewers last season, Eric Haase became the latest catcher to transform his pitch framing under their tutelage. The backup backstop on his evolution to modern receiving techniques ⬇️ brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

The good news from Brandon Woodruff's spring training debut: he hit 95 mph, and the secondaries look great. The complication: he's unintentionally cutting his four-seamer. On Woodruff's remarkable steps so far and where he remains a work in progress ⬇️ brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Our @jackstern.bsky.social is down in Maryvale for the balance of #Brewers camp, and has good coverage this afternoon of the implications of Tobias Myers's injury and Nick Mears's illness for the Opening Day roster. New @brewerfanatic.com: brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Last year, Connor Thomas separated his sweeping slider from his cutter and arrived at what he felt was the best way to use both pitches. Now he's competing for a job with the Brewers, who are guiding him toward new ways to use his arsenal. brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Relying on DL Hall, Jakob Junis, and Joe Ross as starters a year ago did not work out well for the Brewers. After signing José Quintana, they'll enter 2025 with four pitchers who started at least 30 games last season. On Milwaukee's rotation makeover: brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

The non-roster players who receive the most attention in spring training are usually top prospects. Here are some others to watch in #Brewers camp ⬇️ brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

After last year's trade deadline, opponents started swinging harder at Nick Mears' fastball at the top of the zone and crushing it — almost as if they knew it was coming. Reducing those confident swings will be the key to a breakout season. brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Most recent Brewers pitchers have been deceptive kitchen-sink multi-inning guys or relievers with great stuff. Elvin Rodriguez could be either, depending on which route the Brewers choose for his development. brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Trevor Megill excelled at limiting home runs last year, but he doesn't profile as a pitcher who can continue doing so. Why Megill's home run rate is likely to rise in 2025, and what that might mean for a post-Devin Williams bullpen ⬇️ brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

The Brewers built most of their 2024 rotation on the fly from pitchers without good stuff but compensated by excelling at deception. Thanks to Baseball Prospectus' new arsenal metrics, we can now quantify it. brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

For most of 2024, Rhys Hoskins looked like a hitter swinging without the full support of his lower half, and it reduced his ability to reach velocity. A deep dive into what went wrong and his outlook moving forward ⬇️ brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Bob Uecker wasn't just the voice of Brewers baseball. He was Brewers baseball. Furthermore, he represented everything that makes this sport great. What he meant to players, to the organization, to fans, and to me: brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

Aaron Ashby's stuff and command took off with a late-season move to the bullpen, but his breaking pitches and sequencing also improved in equally dramatic ways that aren't exclusive to a relief role. Why that may warrant one last crack at starting ⬇️ brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...

The Brewers' pitching system can give Deivi García something he's lacked for most of his professional career: consistent and productive messaging that advances his development instead of impeding it. brewerfanatic.com/news-rumors/...