ORLANDO, Fla. — The Brewers earned another national honor when they were named Baseball America’s Organization of the Year on Monday, the latest acknowledgment for a club punching above its weight while chasing a championship.
The Brewers have been named Baseball America’s organization of the year five times, more than any other franchise. The award debuted in 1982 and recognizes an organization for success at the Major League level as well as in scouting, coaching and other aspects of player development.
The Brewers also won the award three straight years from 1985-87, then again in 2018 and ’25.
The Brewers would rather be hoisting a World Series trophy after setting a franchise record and leading the Majors with 97 wins during the 2025 regular season, then beating Craig Counsell and the rival Cubs in the NLDS to snap Milwaukee’s streak of six consecutive postseason series losses. They were supported along the way by a farm system that posted a .517 winning percentage, eighth-best in baseball, and that ranked No. 1 on Baseball America’s midseason rankings of the top systems (MLB Pipeline ranked the Brewers fourth for the same period).
They won at the big league level without big spending, featuring only two players earning salaries north of $10 million (Christian Yelich and Rhys Hoskins) and led instead by homegrown players like Jackson Chourio (international signing), Brice Turang and Sal Frelick (former first-round picks). Turang, already established as an elite defender, led the Brewers with 5.6 bWAR last season and was voted club MVP after a breakthrough season at the plate.
Their top pitcher, Freddy Peralta, was one of three teenagers acquired by the Brewers from the Mariners in the Adam Lind trade during the 2015 Winter Meetings, when current Milwaukee president of baseball operations Matt Arnold was just getting started as assistant GM under former Brewers baseball boss David Stearns. Peralta went 17-6 with a 2.70 ERA and finished fifth in NL Cy Young Award balloting in 2025. He is now the subject of intense interest at these Meetings as he heads toward a contract year.
Arnold made the trades for the 2025 Brewers’ most impactful newcomers, third baseman Caleb Durbin from the Yankees in last winter’s Devin Williams deal (Durbin finished third in NL Rookie of the Year Award balloting), then adding pitcher Quinn Priester and first baseman Andrew Vaughn via in-season trades when both players were spinning their wheels at Triple-A, Priester with the Red Sox and Vaughn with the White Sox.
The result was a third consecutive NL Central title and Milwaukee’s seventh postseason berth in the past eight years.
