We’ve reached a point in the season where I feel like I can say this, with confidence, without fear of something wild and terrible happening: the Brewers are going to make the playoffs. They are going to win the National League Central. Who they will play is anyone’s guess: the Diamondbacks, Padres, Mets, and Braves are all within three games of each other, vying for three Wild Card spots; the team who finishes third in that bunch (the Mets, if the season ended today) will almost certainly travel to Milwaukee for the Wild Card matchup.
For the purposes of today, I don’t care who they end up playing, but I’m going to envision what the Brewers’ hypothetical pitching strategy might look like in a best-of-three series and, to a lesser degree, further into the playoffs.