The Milwaukee Brewers are actively trying to add a player or two (or three) to their roster as the 2025 MLB trade deadline draws closer and closer. After missing out on slugging third baseman Eugenio Suarez, who was traded by the Arizona Diamondbacks to the Seattle Mariners, Milwaukee must turn their attention else where, searching for a different power bat and/or relief pitcher(s).
Regardless of what news drops today and what trades may or may not happen, one cannot claim that general manager and the Brewers front office has not been working hard all season to improve the roster. When it was abundantly clear that they lacked starting pitching, Arnold went out and got Quinn Priester in a trade that many, at the time, found upsetting.
As it turns out, though, Priester has been one of the best stories of the 2025 Brewers.
Milwaukee Brewers Starting Pitcher Quinn Priester Is Close to Matching a Franchise Record
Priester was originally drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first round of the 2019 MLB amateur draft. He made his Major League debut with them in 2023, but never experienced success with the organization. That season, he made 10 appearances (eight starts), and was 3-3 with a 7.74 ERA.
The year, 2024, he was 2-6 with a 5.04 ERA in 10 appearances (six starts) with the Pirates before being traded to the Boston Red Sox.
When the Brewers traded for him, he was 0-1 with a 4.50 ERA with Boston’s Triple-A affiliate. Due to his lack of success, many fans were furious about the trade.
However, Priester has become one of Milwaukee’s most consistent pitchers. Now 10-2 with a 3.27 ERA, he has won nine consecutive decisions, one off the Brewers franchise record.
Milwaukee Brewers Starting Pitcher Quinn Priester Reveals What He Did to Turn His Career Around
Before being acquired by the Brewers, Priester appeared to be a former first round pick who was not going to reach the potential many thought he had. But after coming to Milwaukee, he is suddenly showing why he was once such a highly regarded prospect.
What changed?
Per Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Priester credits his turnaround to the consistency of Milwaukee’s pitching coaches and his own journaling:
“Throughout my career, if I wasn’t having the success I wanted to in the big leagues, it was always, ‘Let’s try this,’” Priester said. “Go out, don’t have the success I want to have, ‘Let’s try this.’ Another week, ‘Hey, we’re going to something new.’”
But that changed when he talked with Brewers pitching coach Chris Hook.
“‘We’re not trying something new every time.’ That’s what Hooky was saying,” Priester said. “We’re going to do this, we’re going to have a good week and we’re gonna (expletive) do it again.”
“After Chicago, it was just, ‘You need to find a way to simplify,’” Priester recalled being told. “‘What we’re saying, we’re not going to stop saying it.’ And I need the information. It was like, ‘Hey, we need you to do something.’”
And so he started putting what the coaches were telling him in his own words:
“I’ll just write down really simple rules,” Priester said. “Today, it’s three words. They’re just my goals for the day. So if they might talk about Quinn’s tempo being good; I resonate more with ‘rhythm and pace’ for whatever reason. Even if you say, ‘Be quick, be fast,’ those words just don’t perfectly work in my head. It’s so unique to me.”
It certainly seems that Priester has been Milwaukee’s most consistent starting pitcher since the All-Star Break. Whatever he is doing with his journaling is certainly working.
Maybe the rest of the staff should try it.
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