The Milwaukee Brewers exceeded any and all expectations during the 2018 season. The future has never been brighter for this franchise.
Today, we’ll take a look at what the Milwaukee Brewers options will be for the 2019 starting rotation. As you’ll notice, there are more quality internal options for the Crew to choose from than at any other point in recent memory.
Milwaukee has a trio of young arms who have shown that they might be ready for the next step. We’ll be taking a look at each of these pitchers individually as we move forward so all I’ll say about that, for now, is this: the Brewers have never had this many young, talented arms in the system at any one point in their history.
Although the ill-fated trade to acquire Jonathan Schoop cost Milwaukee a high-caliber starting pitcher in Luis Ortiz, the cupboards are far from bare for the Brewers. Milwaukee still has a few quality arms ranked in their Top-30 prospects, headlined by eighth ranked prospect Zack Brown, to go along with young pitchers Brandon Woodruff, Corbin Burnes, and Freddy Peralta.
On top of the youthful options available to the Brewers, they also have a bevy of in-house veteran options to choose from. Ranging from players coming off of poor performance during the season to coming off of injuries, we’ll be looking at those options today as well.
Fans can also never underestimate general manager David Stearns making a completely unforeseen move with a trade or free agent acquisition. I mean, who would’ve predicted that the Milwaukee Brewers would trade for Christian Yelich during the offseason at this point last year? Stearns has surprised fans in the past so we’ll be looking at some of the options available in free agency and on the trade market.
With that being said, let’s take a look at two names guaranteed to be in the 2019 rotation. First, we’ll look at a standout from the 2018 season.