As the offense floundered in the second half for the Milwaukee Brewers last season, the pitching staff led the way as the club finished with an 86-76 record, just one game out of a Wild Card. At the end of the season, Milwaukee’s starters finished with a cumulative 4.10 ERA (10th overall in MLB) and 13.3 fWAR (eighth overall). That’s including the combined 283.1 innings at a roughly replacement-level output that the staff received from Matt Garza, Junior Guerra, Wily Peralta, Paolo Espino, Tommy Milone, Brandon Woodruff, and Michael Blazek.
The staff was powered by a couple of breakout performances from a couple of experienced arms in Jimmy Nelson and Chase Anderson.