It does not matter that the Milwaukee Brewers have a perpetually low-ranking payroll; they continue to be one of the best teams in baseball.  

The Brewers are coming off a 97-win season and a National League Championship Series appearance. Moreover, Matt Arnold won his second-straight Executive of the Year award, and Pat Murphy won his second-straight National League Manager of the Year award. 

Despite all the Brewers’ success, there is one criticial need for improvement: Power hitting. 

In Bleacher Report’s recent piece titled “MLB 2026 New Year's Resolutions for All 30 Teams,” it called on the Brewers to improve their home run hitting abilities, which have not been a strong suit for the team. 

“The Brewers haven't had a particularly exciting offseason, but it's hard to get too upset at a franchise that keeps beating expectations and winning division titles,” it wrote. “They know what they're doing.” 

“The one missing ingredient in recent years, however, has been power. The Brewers haven't cracked the top half of the NL in home runs in any of the last three seasons, and it is part of the reason they keep falling short of the World Series. In the 2025 NLCS, Shohei Ohtani outhomered the entire team in the last game alone.” 

In some ways, Milwaukee’s offense was potent, especially in batting average with runners in scoring position; a metric which ESPN’s David Schoenfield outlined recently. 

“The Brewers hit .279 with runners in scoring position, second best in the majors behind the Blue Jays' .292 average, and it is a key reason Milwaukee finished third in runs scored despite ranking 22nd in home runs,” he wrote. “That .279 average was 21 points higher than the Brewers' overall mark of .258 (the average gain with runners in scoring position among all teams was a 10-point increase).”  

Yet, the Brewers hit just 166 home runs in 2025, placing them at No. 22 in Major League Baseball. The lack of power reared its ugly head in the NLCS when Milwaukee could not score more than one run in each of its four games as the Dodgers cruised to a sweep. 

The Brewers will need to find a way to generate explosive runs by making the ball leave the park in 2026, especially if they want to challenge the Dodgers and other teams for control of the National League. 

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