Milwaukee got its parade on Friday, and now it's getting its hardware. ESPN rolled out its All-October Team this morning, a roster built from the players who actually showed up when the lights got bright, and the early word from the wire is that the Brewers are all over it.
I don't have the full lineup in front of me yet. ESPN hasn't published the actual names, just the setup, so I'm not going to pretend I can hand you a roster that hasn't crossed the desk. What I can tell you is simple: when a World Series champion gets described as having "plenty of Brewers" on an all-postseason team, that's not noise. That's a team that peaked on time.
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Yes, and Friday made it official in the way these things get made official in Wisconsin: thousands of people in the streets. The reporting out of Milwaukee described the parade as thronged, fans packing downtown to celebrate a title that's been a long time coming for that franchise.
checked the almanac on this one, because it felt worth confirming. the brewers had never won a world series before this year. their only prior trip to the fall classic was 1982, a seven-game loss to the cardinals. forty-four years is a long wait, and it ended with a parade route instead of a what-if.
That context matters for how I read the All-October roster. Postseason awards like this tend to overweight recency and storyline, sure, but you don't accumulate multiple spots on a list like that by getting hot for one series. You get there by stacking good performances across three or four rounds, which is a much harder thing to fake.
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The same wire chatter pointed at manager Pat Murphy's handling of this team, with one of the week's MLB roundups built around what it called "Pat Murphy's magic." I don't have the game logs in front of me to tell you exactly which decisions made the difference, lineup construction, bullpen sequencing, in-game aggressiveness, whatever it was. But a manager getting that kind of attention after a title run usually means the stuff that doesn't show up in a box score, the bullpen call in the sixth inning, the double switch nobody notices, actually worked all month.
what's next for milwaukee and the rest of mlb
The parade is over, but the sport doesn't stop for long. The hot stove is already lit elsewhere: the reporting says Bo Bichette is exercising his option to stay with the Mets, and longtime Rockies manager Clint Hurdle said his goodbyes after more than twenty seasons with that organization. None of that touches Milwaukee directly, but it's a reminder that the offseason calendar doesn't wait for confetti to clear.
For the Brewers specifically, the next real marker is the actual All-October roster drop, full names, full breakdown, and whatever the World Series MVP conversation looks like once ESPN's historical tracker gets updated with this year's winner. I'll be watching for both, because a champion's offseason narrative usually gets written in the two weeks right after the parade, not during it.