3 Brewers who could become first-time All-Stars in 2025

After rather easily winning the National League Central this past season by a comfortable 10-game margin, the Milwaukee Brewers are entering 2025 on a mission to go three in a row and secure their fourth division title in five years.

While it's true that Willy Adames, Frankie Montas, Devin Williams, Hoby Milner, Joe Ross and multiple other pieces from last year's roster have moved on this offseason, the Brewers are still a team packed with talent as spring training gets underway. Really, the roster looks mostly the same as it did last year, minus the aforementioned names.

Looking around the roster, Christian Yelich, Brandon Woodruff, William Contreras, and Freddy Peralta are the top four bona fide stars that have one or more All-Star Game selections under their belts. The rest of the roster, including Rhys Hoskins (who at one point was one of the game's top offensive first basemen), has never made it to the Midsummer Classic.

In 2025, that's certainly going to change. With the vast majority of their roster never earning selections before and the off-the-charts talent that some of these youngsters possess, there could be multiple players who earned their first look in the All-Star Game coming up this year. Let's check the top candidates out.

3 Brewers who could become first-time All-Stars in 2025

Jackson Chourio

On the surface, it feels a bit disrespectful that Chourio did not earn an All-Star nod this past season, but then you'll find that he didn't really begin to take off until the second half of the year. In fact, he hit just .243 with a .678 OPS through 85 first-half games in 2024, which hardly screams "All-Star" at all.

Of course, he went on an otherworldly tear in the second half, hitting 12 home runs with a .310 average, .914 OPS and .552 SLG through 63 second-half games. That's much more like it, and that's a lot more like what we'll see from him all year long in 2025.

All told, Chourio hit 21 home runs with 79 RBI while going 22-for-29 in stolen bases, posting 3.8 bWAR and a 117 OPS+ on the season. This earned him a 22nd place finish in the NL MVP voting and third in the NL Rookie of the Year race.

Now, Chourio is a much more established, household name. If he keeps up the production he showed down the stretch in 2024, he's practically guaranteed a spot in the All-Star Game. The fact that he's doing all of this before he turns 21 is a testament to the rare talent we're witnessing.

Trevor Megill

Last year, the Brewers' bullpen dominated the opposition without any real household names. Devin Williams wasn't available over the full 162-game schedule and the responsilibities instead fell to Joel Payamps, Bryan Hudson, Jared Koenig and Megill to mend the gaps.

Megill, in his second season on the Brewers and first as a full-time closer, impressed through a 48-game stint. He posted a 2.72 ERA with a 3.10 FIP and 155 ERA+ that put his overall production at 55 percent above league-average. He's historically been a high-strikeout arm who uses his near triple-digit heater and wipeout knuckle curve to his advantage to any batter at any time.

Now that Williams has been shipped to the Bronx, Megill is going to get first dibs at the closer's role, and it's unlikely that he gives it up at any point in 2025. ZiPS projections have him down for 28 more saves while raising his 2024 K/9 of 9.71 all the way up to 10.85, which would put him comfortably in the top half of the relief-pitching leaderboards.

The Brewers have always found a way to send out a reliable closer over the past decade or so. John Axford, Jim Henderson, Josh Hader, Devin Williams, and now Trevor Megill. They all were either under consideration for an All-Star Game nod or made the cut during their own stints as the Brewers' closer, so now it feels like it's Megill's turn.

Tobias Myers

The 2024 Brewers were completely spoiled when it came to the production they received from their rookies. Chourio carried the offense while Myers did his thing on the pitching staff. Now, both players feel like prime candidates to earn an All-Star nod in their sophomore campaigns.

Last year, Myers went from minor league castoff to borderline ace over the course of one regular season. He finished his year with a 9-6 record and a 3.00 ERA, 3.91 FIP and 140 ERA+ across 25 starts (and two relief outings) spanning 138 innings. He remained a consistent presence at the forefront of the Brewers' rotation and actually improved in some ways as the year progressed on.

Myers' 2.86 second-half ERA was even better than the 3.13 mark he sported through 13 first-half starts. His strikeout rate also climbed from 7.8 K/9 to 8.9 and he found a way to lower his home runs allowed while simulatenously lowering walks and improving on total strikeouts.

Similarly to Chourio, the expectation here is that Myers continues that performance into the 2025 campaign. If he's able to, there's no reason he should be denied a spot on the All-Star Game roster.

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