Another Brewers minor league coach is joining a big league staff in 2026

On Monday afternoon, a popular baseball publication, Baseball America, named the Milwaukee Brewers the best MLB organization of 2025. From major league success, the most of any team during the regular season, to a fortified farm system jam-packed with exciting talent, to minor league affiliates that have embraced the identity trickling down from the big league club, the Brewers have become the gold standard of organizational operation in recent years.

Already this offseason, that impressive success as an organization has led to the Brewers losing one of their minor league coaches to a big league coaching staff. Back in mid-November, Justin Meccage, who served as the Triple-A Nashville Sounds' pitching coach during the 2025 season, joined the San Francisco Giants' new coaching staff, headed by former Tennessee Volunteers head coach Tony Vitello. Meccage, who happens to be the uncle of the Brewers' 2024 second round draft pick, Bryce Meccage, is back in the major leagues after several seasons in various roles with the Pittsburgh Pirates prior to his 2025 stint in Nashville.

Now, another Brewers minor league coach is being promoted to the big leagues. Victor Estevez, who served as the manager of the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, the Brewers' High-A affiliate, for the past two seasons, is reportedly joining the Washington Nationals' coaching staff as the team's new third base coach.

Wisconsin Timber Rattlers' 2025 manager, Victor Estevez, hired as Washington Nationals new third base coach

The Nationals cleaned house back in early July, firing both their manager, Dave Martinez, and their GM, Mike Rizzo, just before the league paused for the All-Star Break, and notably just days before the MLB Draft took place. Miguel Cairo, the team's former bench coach, filled in as the interim manager during the second half of the 2025 season, but now Washington is in the process of welcoming a brand-new coaching staff for the 2026 campaign.

They hired 33-year-old Blake Butera as their new manager, and added former Brewers' first-round pick, Corey Ray, to their coaching staff last week to serve as their new first-base coach. Now, standing opposite Ray, in the third-base coach's box, will be another coach with ties to the Brewers organization. Estevez was the Manager of the Year in the Carolina League back in 2023, while serving as the manager of the Carolina Mudcats, who are now known as the Wilson Warbirds. Then, in 2024, after Estevez was promoted to the Timber Rattlers' managerial role, he won Manager of the Year in the Midwest League.

Estevez, a former infielder himself, will also reportedly serve as Washington's infield coach. Milwaukee, meanwhile, will begin the search for a new High-A manager with Nick Stanley, who has managed the organization's Low-A squad in each of the last two seasons, being a name to look out for.