Last season, the greatest strength of the Milwaukee Brewers was the bullpen. Craig Counsell’s oft-used ‘pen stacked up 614.0 innings pitched by the end of the regular season, second-most in the National League. The group was baseball’s fifth-best unit by ERA (3.47) and fourth-best by FIP (3.57). Only the relief corps for the Yankees and Astros finished with a higher strikeout rate than Milwaukee’s 10.38 K/9. The bullpen finished seventh in K/BB ratio (2.91) and eighth in WHIP (1.25).
Led by the “electric dudes” of Josh Hader, Corey Knebel, and Jeremy Jeffress, the bullpen figured to be Milwaukee’s strongest asset once again in 2019.