The Milwaukee Brewers have won the National League Central for the last two seasons. In 2023, Craig Counsell was the manager and in 2024, Pat Murphy was the manager leading the way.
In 2025, it remains to be seen if the Brewers will three-peat in the division or not. The National League Central is one of the weakest divisions in baseball. The Pittsburgh Pirates and the St. Louis Cardinals will be long shots to win the division this season, but the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago Cubs can very well challenge the Milwaukee Brewers for the division title this season.
CBS Sports Writer Dayn Perry Thinks That the Milwaukee Brewers Did Not Do Enough This Offseason
CBS sports writer Dayn Perry wrote about three different MLB teams who did not do enough this offseason to help themselves. One of the teams he listed was the Milwaukee Brewers. This does not come as a surprise with Willy Adames leaving for the San Francisco Giants and not making other moves. Perry said:
“One should probably not doubt the Brewers when it comes to overcoming seeming roster holes and a fairly stagnant payroll trend. As such, it won’t be a great shock if the Brewers in 2025 return to the top of the National League Central. Their offseason work, however, hasn’t helped the cause. Most notably, shortstop Willy Adames, who finished 10th in the NL MVP vote last year, is gone via a nine-figure contract with the San Francisco Giants. As well, what was once enviable rotation depth has been thinned out, and that’s the case even with the addition of Nestor Cortes (a trade that cost them Devin Williams, perhaps the best reliever in baseball right now) and the presumed return to action of Brandon Woodruff. The left side of the infield is also a worry.
The Brewers have done effectively nothing on the free-agent market, and that’s happened at the same time the Chicago Cubs have been active, at least by the standards of NL Central teams. Yes, almost no team incubates young talent like the Brewers, but you won’t find many informed observers who will pick the Brewers to repeat in the division. That reflects the Cubs’ improvements, but it also reflects the Brewers’ losses and their failures to replace them. Given the strength of the NL, it’s hard to imagine that a wild-card team comes out of the Central, so it may be a division title or bust for Milwaukee. They’ve got a chance to win their third straight division title for the first time ever, but they haven’t helped their odds of doing so.”
It is going to be interesting to see what the Milwaukee Brewers lineup and starting rotation will be for the team by the time opening day rolls around for the Brewers. The Chicago Cubs made a ton of moves in the offseason to improve the roster. Milwaukee is very good at finding internal replacements, but there may be a chance that losing Adames will catch up to them.
The odds are very good in the National League that only one team will make the playoffs from the central division. The Milwaukee Brewers will have to win 90 games to win the division this season or otherwise, they could find themselves in a crazy wild card chase.
