The Milwaukee Brewers are entering play on August 5, 2025 with the best record in baseball. Over the last two months, they have been firing on all cylinders, the front office made moves early in the season by bringing in Quinn Priester and Andrew Vaughn, and despite recent injuries to Jackson Chourio and Jacob Misiorowski, they are continuing to get healthier.
All of this led to what looked like another underwhelming trade deadline haul for them, as this year they added an outfielder named Brandon Lockridge from the San Diego Padres and a pair of injured pitchers in Shelby Miller and Jordan Montgomery from the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Despite this, The Athletic recently summarized their trade deadline with the word “icing”. Here’s why.
Milwaukee Brewers trade deadline summarized in one word: Icing
Staff writers at The Athletic Grant Brisbee, Chad Jennings and Levi Weaver described the Brewers trade deadline with the word icing. Their reasoning is as follows:
Here are two major additions to the 2025 Milwaukee Brewers: Jacob Misiorowski (debuted June 12) and Brandon Woodruff (returned from IL on July 6).
No team in baseball added two starters of that quality, and it didn’t cost the Brewers a single prospect.
As constructed, Milwaukee has a very dangerous rotation, a fun and effective style of offense, and a bullpen that isn’t bad (and just added Shelby Miller). We’ll see how that translates in October!
More icing to come
While Brisbee, Jennings, and Weaver make good points, there is more icing to come for the Brewers. Southpaw Robert Gasser is on the mend from Tommy John surgery, is being built up as a starter, and could be available for the team to use later this month or in early September.
Furthermore, their Triple-A pitching staff has a surplus of big league ready talent. With Jacob Misiorowski on the injured list, they brought Logan Henderson back up, and he went on to deliver 4.1 innings while only allowing one earned run. Through five career MLB starts this year, Henderson has a 1.78 ERA, but yet he can’t manage to crack regular playing time with Milwaukee.
Additionally, Tobias Myers and Chad Patrick are options for the Brew Crew, if needed. Myers was huge for Milwaukee as a rookie last year and Patrick earlier this year, but similar to Henderson, they are backup options in this plethora of pitching talent.
All of this highlights how great of a job Milwaukee’s front office has done at acquiring talent, making a deep roster, and putting the “icing” on the cake at the trade deadline by going out and adding outfield depth and another back end of the bullpen option, all while giving up a rental in Nestor Cortes a long with about $2.0 million cash.
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