The Brewers announced this morning that they’ve placed right-hander Jacob Misiorowski on the 15-day injured list (retroactive to July 31) due to a left tibia contusion. Right-hander Logan Henderson was recalled to replace Misiorowski on the active roster.
Misiorowski was expected to start today’s game against the Nationals, but instead will head to the shelf. That the right-hander’s injury doesn’t involve his arm is surely heartening news for fans in Milwaukee, but it’s nonetheless worrisome for such a key piece of the club’s recent surge to miss any time at all while the team is locked in a heated division race with the Cubs. Any amount of time missed by such a talented arm will be a blow, but if Misiorowski misses only the minimum he could be back on the mound for the club’s series opener against the Reds on August 15.
The rookie was somewhat controversially named an All-Star this year despite having just five appearances in the majors under his belt prior to this year’s All-Star game, but Misiorowski has done everything in his power to justify that honor with a 2.70 ERA, 3.10 FIP, and an absurd 36.4% strikeout rate in 33 1/3 innings. Misiorowski’s huge strikeout numbers are somewhat balanced out by a 10.9% walk rate, but his overpowering stuff (which includes a fastball that averages 99mph on the radar gun) is more than enough to make up for those pitfalls when it comes to control.
Misiorowski isn’t the only injury of note the Brewers have suffered in recent days. Star outfielder Jackson Chourio is on the injured list due to a hamstring strain and might not be back until September. Another major piece of the club’s outfield puzzle, Sal Frelick, was pulled from yesterday’s game due to knee soreness in what the Brewers described (according to Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) as “precautionary.” With Chourio and Misiorowski out of commission for the time being and Frelick’s status uncertain, the Brewers are looking very banged up after a quiet trade deadline that saw them add only backup catcher Danny Jansen from the Rays and injured right-hander Shelby Miller of the Diamondbacks while trading away starter Nestor Cortes in a deal with the Padres.
The 21-year-old Henderson is another impressive young arm, as he made his big league debut earlier this year and has looked quite good in four spot starts. He’s posted a 1.71 ERA and a 3.05 FIP in 21 innings of work at the big league level this year while striking out 35.8% of his opponents, though a 3.59 ERA and 27.9% strikeout rate in 16 appearances at Triple-A is slightly less impressive. Regardless, Henderson will have the opportunity to further establish himself as the next man up in a crowded rotation mix that has sent arms like Chad Patrick and Tobias Myers to Triple-A as depth.
Contustion? Does he have a bruise or did his leg catch fire?
He took a line drive off his shin last start and it was a nasty bruise
When you’ve got contustion, the only cure is Robitustin.
Or more cowbell.
Nick “Dirty” Deeds needs an editor.
Get some’Tussin on that
He’s too tall for the job. Gangly extremities force command issues.
Except this has nothing to do with his height
I root for him , but possible reliever risk over time.
Randy Johnson didn’t have a problem. Chris Sale is also 6′ 6″
They didn’t draft him for his height. This is MLB. He has the stuff regardless.
He is gangly tho, he puts on some muscles he should be good
He is already good. Why body shame him?
Bruised and contused
Dazed and Confused
I’m very Contusted by this.
Is there a chance he’ll experience Spontaneous Human Contustion?
I’m going to assume you didn’t like getting swept, twice.
Gyo: As a lifelong Yankees fan, no, it was no fun getting completely spanked, turned over and spanked again, by multiple teams.
I can say Aaron Boone is the best manager in the league…….for every team the Yankees play.
Thumbs up just for the last line, Clip.
This is one way of limiting innings. Especially vs inferior teams.
His next start would have been against the Mets.
Yes, this is 100% to limit innings for the post season run.
Brewers also have the depth to let some others pitch while he heals from his bruise.
Not 100 per cent. People who weren’t born at the time still remember Dizzy Dean.
Ol’ Diz could have benefited from Chris Hook as his pitching coach.
Get a clue dude. He took a liner off his leg on his last start. This is not a conspiracy to limit his innings!! You been watching too many Oliver Stone movies it would appear. Murph wants his players healthy by the time Sep rolls around
They’re killing two birds with one stone, Doesn’t have to be either/or. And, meanwhile, the Brewers are auditioning one of their top young starters for a potential future need.
“getting two birds stoned” -Ricky
Worst case Ontario he gets rested up for stretch run they probably just wanted to be overly cautious with him.
Jacob should take all the time he needs. A month seems reasonable.
And even Oliver Stone could figure this one out. Miz is at 96 innings for 2025. In 2024 he set a personal record of 97 innings in a season. Brewers taking opportunity to sit and rest him.
Sooo.peaking at the schedule that’s a pretty bold statement since he will likely miss games vs the cubs(who just swept the brewers) and mets who lead thier division..reds and braves..but sure you say they are inferior to the brewers ..so guess the brew crew went from average Joe’s to overconfident Joe’s overnight..lol good luck stay humble
Swept by the Cubs? Are you living in an alternate reality?
They say dreams are healthy, and the Brewers took 2 out of 3 from the Cubbies.
My bad not sure what I was thinking but calling all those teams inferior to a team that calls themselves average Joe’s seems foolish to me..
Probably just trying to manage his workload
He took a liner off his leg in the last game, no conspiracy here guys. Brutal week for the crew but Henderson has a couple good starts already this season.
Not a conspiracy, but certainly an opportunity to limit innings.
Henderson is a top 100 prospect, and looked good in spot starts back in may. It’s a good thing the brewers have a very deep and good farm system. The crew are banged up now but hopefully when Sep hits we should be healthy
The most heartening recent development has been William Contreras regaining his slugging ability.
Injury wise it is brutal, but we are plowing through the Nats like they aren’t even there at the moment. Not that bad of a week.
His selection as an All Star was a travesty. He is talented, no doubt, but after only 5 starts he took away a spot from somebody who had been pitching to big league hitters all season. Manfred is the worst commissioner in baseball history.
Hall of Fame first ballot even if he doesn’t throw again he’s that good
Who, exactly, did he take a spot from? One of the Phillies starters who turned down a spot when offered? Get over it.
Yip, just taking a cue from big baby Philly players
At least a dozen more deserving pitchers. That’s probably light.
One of the Phillies starters who turned down a spot when offered?
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Suarez turned them down. Sanchez should’ve had the spot. He leads MLB in bWAR.
Replacements have to commit to the game.
Sounded great on paper. Looked really bad in execution. Especially the hot wheels that did a lap after each home run. I know Tennessee fans unfairly are the butt of jokes in SEC country. But seeing the camera shots off those fans staring off into space upon ceaeless and unending alcohol abuse, jokes kinda write themselves.
The ASG is an exhibition. One of the few opportunities for MLB to showcase its talent before the postseason. As with Skenes last year, Miz was the hottest new face out there. Why not introduce him to casual fans?
Putting him on the ASG roster really lowers the bar. At least Skenes pitched in 11 games in 24, not just 5. Lots of rookies have a 5 game hot streak. Don’t reward him for that. Let’s see how he does the second and third times he faces the same teams.
The AS game should be an honor. Leaving guys like Sanchez off the team is one of the reasons I no longer watch the ASG. When I was a kid, it was reserved for only the best, where AS players would later get HOF votes.
Now we have some mediocre players getting voted in, and more mediocre players chosen because every team needs to be represented.
George Springer entered the chat.
They should have Don Cortese and Bill Bellamy and Jimmy Kimmel then from the old MTV rock n jock games named to the roster then to showcase the fan to casual younger fans. Even if those guys are like over 50
Windowpane: Try to be even more melodramatic and dial the hyperbole up another couple of ticks.
And please explain how this “travesty” harmed you.
Lol. Never said it harmed me. But my comment obviously harmed you. Here is a tissue.
Windowpane: You know, the last time I saw something like you, I flushed it.
I love being in your head rent-free! Gimme more!
It was a travesty. He was chosen for publicity purposes, not for his accomplishments. There isn’t a single person on the planet that will argue he was having a better season than Sanchez.
You don’t know what the word travesty means.
OMG, crying a new river? I don’t care if he made it to the game or not. It’s a trivial pause in the game to celebrate the game, not to be angry
The All-Star Game is a travesty; it’s an exhibition game.
Uh oh spaghetti
You’re really just gonna leave it with spaghetti and not say the O
Oh gee, had an inkling i was missing something. Thanks for the able assist
Franco American wants in.
Due to his fondness for youth, Franco will never get to be American.
Chef Boyardee
oldgfan: Julio Franco isn’t but John Franco is.
What a bummer. First Chorizo, now Misiowaski. Are the Brewers deep enough to survive and thrive during the dog days of summer?
As always, we await developments.
It’s one thing Milwaukee has been very good at knowing you got be almost 50 to 60 guys deep for a whole season. Definitely something other teams haven’t figured out.
Well it seemed like opening weekend they weren’t quite prepared with enough pitching depth lined up, but they sure as heck remedied that little problem in a hurry.
50 or 60 deep?
Riiiiiight
First Stearns, and then Counsell. How did the Brewers ever survive that?
First Corbin Burnes, and then Devin Williams, and then Willy Adames.
. . . .
First Seattle then Milwaukee.
First American League now the National League.
Ya, best record in MLB. They suck
Speeling iz knot your strong suite.
If he keeps putting up good numbers once he’s back from the IL, I would think he would get Rookie of the Year votes.
The ROY clubhouse leader is catcher Drake Baldwin, who hails from Madison, Wis..
Long as he doesn’t finish top 2 in ROY, thats cool.
This is most likely load management but its all good.
Hopefully this and Frelick injury is the opening the cubs need to get a hold of their division again
If striking out four times a game will drive the Cubs upward, PCA is here to help. And Kyle Tucker might want to get that injured finger checked out.
@Jim: Yes, something is wrong with Tucker. Either that or all along he was not the kind of difference-maker we were led to believe he was. (It has been a bit pathetic watching Cubs shills try to convince themselves that, even though he has had very little success or impact with the Cubs, according to this or that quasi-stat, actually he has been very good!)
The Brewers can better withstand injuries than most teams, for a simple reason: Everyone in their lineup hits. Their ability to string together hits to create multi-run rallies at least three or four times a game has been extraordinary. Their lineup doesn’t have big names, but it has big ability. They are going to finally win their first NL pennant, and probably beat the Astros in the World Series.
You sure they won’t beat the White Sox in the World Series?
@Strunk: LOL, not this year, but the White Sox have some nice young players who will be even better next season. People who are still using the White Sox as a sort of punch line have not been watching lately.
Milwaukee came within one victory of a Chicago-Milwaukee World Series in 1959. It was one of the most fascinating pennant races in both leagues.
@Jim: Juuuust before my time; I became a fan of both the Sox and Cubs in 1960. But I have read about it. The Braves and Dodgers finished the 154-game season in a tie for first, am I right? And then the Dodgers beat the Braves in a playoff?
Google doing all the thinking for Alan.
You are correct. That was the first year I started following MLB in baseball-crazy Milwaukee. Extremely tight three-way race among the Braves, Dodgers and Giants. Imagine a 9-year-old kid taking a transistor radio to bed for West Coast games that started at 10 p.m. Central. The Dodgers played at the L.A. Coliseum until Dodger Stadium was built. The Braves lost a critical player, second baseman Red Schoendienst, who had led them to the ’57 and ’58 World Series. Schoendienst contracted tuberculosis during the ’58-59 offseason.
@Jim: I remember. A few years later I read one of those sanitized sports biographies for kids, of Schoendienst, and it talked about his TB, etc.
At 72, I’m glad that I had some of the early baseball experiences I had–in addition to playing constantly throughout the snowless months. A few years later I practically lived at Wrigley Field and Comiskey Park (and sometimes County Stadium). I feel sorry for younger people that they weren’t baseball-blessed the way we were; they didn’t have comparable experiences. It shows in the foolishness and oddly brittle, cynical nature of some of their comments here and elsewhere.
So true. Living in Milwaukee allowed us to listen to Cubs and/or White Sox games on radio, and people living in two-story houses with rooftop antennas could watch Cubs games. To watch the Braves on TV, we had to wait until they were in the World Series. Milwaukee became the transistor radio capital of America.
Listening to Sox and Cubs night games with my transistor radio under my pillow, played soft enough that my mother wouldn’t hear…it was a vivid, formative experience. I think our country started to go downhill when the transistor radio began to disappear.
Transistor radios were effectively replaced by boomboxes. That had societal implications.
Oh, Alan it’s not going to be the Astros, I’m not sure where that premonition came from but try to suppress it because the Astros are DOA and currently their AL West lead is crumbling underneath them as we speak.
@SOB: Yeah, they have been slumping. Love the Correa add, though. The AL looks wide-open; the Tigers, Blue Jays, Astros, Yankees have all had great streaks and then cooled off and looked less dominant. Certainly the Mariners and Red Sox could also emerge as pennant winner. Rangers dark horse at the wire?
I’m a little biased Alan, but I have to go with my Mariners. I think they have the right combination of strong starting pitching, an offense with a lot of power, and a decent enough pen. Try to check them out if you can, they’re a fun team to watch. I feel like they get overlooked a bit playing on the West Coast and overall not having much postseason luck, but that should change here shortly. Yes for sure the AL is wide open right now and I think the Jays & Astros have been playing over their skis and the Yanks have looked atrocious. So Don’t count out Texas yet! Cheers !!!
Pitchers get injured no matter how much or little they pitch. There’s no reason to limit guys like Skenes or this guy, regardless. Just don’t pitch him too much like the Cubs did to Prior and Wood. Limiting these guys to four innings is just silly
I want to see the medical records because I call BS. He’s being shelved to keep his innings down if they make the playoffs
“There’s no reason to limit guys like Skenes or this guy, regardless. Just don’t pitch him too much”
Umm
Let’s be real: a strong gust of wind looks like it could injure this guy.
That’s what people said about Randy Johnson as a youngster. He managed to duck under the doorway of the Hall of Fame.
But nothing could possibly move 5’ 8” 350 pound Strunk from his couch.
I hope you’re being sarcastic.
Fans only vote for position players.
Should we give that task to the maniacally power-hungry president of the United States?
I posted that Milwaukee will start its downfall soon. This is going to be the start. They have been playing way over their heads, in my opinion.
@Chris: Your opinion is the opposite of mine. We’ll see who’s right!
Well, you posted this when they were up 4-1… I still think they are going to start their downfall soon. Beating the team they just swept previously isn’t where the bar is set for me.
12-1 now. Your distant view of the Crew won’t serve you very well.
Ok, Jim. We will see.
LOL
Milwaukee has the best record against winning teams in the MLB. They have the second best run differential. I see them with a real chance to win it all.
The Brewers’ run differential improved considerably today; could be No. 1. Since May 18, when this surge began, their 7-8-9 hitters lead MLB in OPS, which is somewhat hard to believe given Joey Ortiz’s struggles.
Forgive me, but it’s MLB, not “the MLB.” MLB is not the name of the league, like the NBA and the NFL are, so it doesn’t take the definite article.
It’s like writing, “I like to play the golf.”
People say this every year about Milwaukee. You need to learn to temper yourself. Every good team is going to go thru it’s ups and downs. Part of the roller-coaster ride that is a 162 game season.
It’s the first time I’ve said it. This year looks different to me.
You’re the smartest guy here. We envy your absolute brilliance.
Yeah… best record in baseball over the past three months. Playing “way over their heads” for three quarters of the season. Good call.
I’ve been told that I am supposed to let the season play out and see what happens…. If you can’t see that they are playing over their heads, that’s ok. I guess we will find out.
This comment is why you should have to take a IQ test in order to comment on here. That way nobody would ever have to read the stupid things you say that are factually incorrect.
Isn’t it about time that all of us admit that the Brewers’ ability to put together long rallies where just about everybody hits–is rare to the point of almost being unprecedented? And that it has lasted long enough, against all kinds of pitching, that it cannot be considered ephemeral or fluky?
As a Cubs fan, I am sad to see it–but there’s no use pretending that it isn’t real.
The Cubs are not going to win the division. We should be looking at the teams behind us, hoping to keep them there so we can get a wild-card spot. And know that our upcoming games against the Reds, Giants, and Cardinals are games we need to win.
And those long rallies are not the Brewers’ MO. They are a run prevention team first and foremost. They’re keeping Joey Ortiz at shortstop because he plays his position at an elite level. The Brewers just happened to set a team record for the most hits in a three-game series. The horrid Nationals contributed mightily.
Yesterday, I bet a Cubs fan that we will win the division.
Last year, I proclaimed to Cub fans that the Brewers would finish ahead of their team in every year of Counsell’s contract. The secret sauce has a name: Chris Hook.
I’d take the bet that the Brewers will not finish above the Cubs.
The Brewers are legit, a bit surprising but you can’t deny their talent. Their pitching staff is overpowering and talented. I don’t think their offense is as good as they’ve shown lately, but I also question the legitimacy of the Cubs offense. Guys like Carson Kelly are hitting way above their talent level. Cubs need to call up Caissie and give him some ABs in LF, because Happ has been a major disappointment. Caissie can also get ABs at RF/DH while he gives Tucker and Suzuki some much needed days off. Most Cubs starters have had only a couple games off all season. And it’s starting to show.
Let’s hear your denial of reality some more.
Tell us about the Marlins now.
I bet my Chicago buddy that the Brew will win the division.
Everyone in here talking about workload management for a pitcher who has only pitched 33 innings this season lol.
A+ post DDC.
You need to count his AAA innings, he’s at about 100.
Brewers have excellent record with their payroll.
Meanwhile: Nick Pivetta is 11-3 with a 2.73 ERA
He can wait until after the Reds series to come back. Take your time, rook.
He still has to walk to get around i imagine. Why cant they just put a protective pad around the area.
Is Andrew Vaughn juicing it up, or just great timing and focus, lol. Keep it up, whatever it is 🙂