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As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists and consistently look to update them when necessary and based on necessity. As such, we are delighted to present our post-2024 revision of our top 50 Milwaukee Brewers.
As for all of our top 50 players in baseball, we look at the following:
1. Advanced Statistics.
2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National League.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.
Please note that our algorithm has changed, which yielded minor changes throughout the baseball lists.
Last year, the Brewers won the National League Central, but were bounced by the New York Mets in three games in the Wild Card round. There were two new entrants and a few notable player movements.
As always, we present our top five, which had no changes.
1. Robin Yount
2. Paul Molitor
3. Ryan Braun
4. Cecil Cooper
You can find the entire list here.
Former MVP Christian Yelich advanced one spot to #6.
Pitcher Brandon Woodruff held at #20.
Infielder Willy Adames and Pitcher Devin Williams enter at #40 and #41 respectively.
We thank you for your continued support of our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.
In what was considered a minor surprise, the Tampa Bay Rays traded Willy Adames early in the 2021 Season to Milwaukee, and from that point until 2024, he was one of the more dependable Infielders in the game.
Adames, finished the season with 20 Home Runs and a .285 Batting Average, and the year after, his Batting Average dipped (.238), but he provided the Brewers with his first 30-plus Home Run Season. In 2024, he had his best power year for the Brewers, with 32 Home Runs and 112 RBIs, and was tenth in MVP voting.
Adames left after the 2024 campaign for the West Coast, joining the San Francisco Giants as a Free Agent.
Willy Adames was traded early in his fourth MLB season from Tampa to Milwaukee, and it remans to be seen whether this is a transaction that the Rays will regret in the future.