We’re persevering with our rankings of the Brewers’ 10 most precious gamers in 2024 with beginning pitcher Tobias Myers. Myers completed the season with 2.7 bWAR and a pair of.2 fWAR, good for fifth and eighth on the crew, respectively.
Myers stunned nearly everybody along with his sturdy rookie season. A former sixth-round decide, Myers spent eight seasons within the minors, spanning 141 appearances (123 begins) with a 4.24 ERA and 636 strikeouts throughout 620 1⁄3 innings.
He made 27 appearances (25 begins) for the Brewers in 2024, ending with an excellent 3.00 ERA as he struck out 127 batters throughout 138 innings. Batters hit .242/.295/.387 in opposition to him, and he was definitely in rivalry for NL Rookie of the Month in June, when he went 4-0 throughout 5 begins with 24 strikeouts throughout 31 1⁄3 innings.
Whereas a number of the underlying stats could not scream “shutdown pitcher” (e.g. 3.91 FIP and 4.22 xERA), however he nonetheless did an amazing job of limiting walks, with a 6.3% stroll charge that ranked within the 77th percentile, per Baseball Savant.
As talked about above, the remainder of his Savant web page options loads of blue, as he ranks within the backside 50% in xERA (thirty eighth percnetile), xBA (thirty second percentile), velocity (thirty first percentile), common exit velocity (twenty third percentile), chase charge (forty ninth percentile), whiff charge (fifteenth percentile), strikeout charge (forty fourth percentile), barrel charge (forty third percentile), hard-hit charge (fiftieth percentile), and groundball charge (twenty second percentile).
Nonetheless, although, he had an amazing season, and the underlying numbers don’t matter within the second as long as you’re profitable (which the Brewers did loads of with him on the hill — 13-12 as a starter and one other 2-0 in his reduction appearances for a 15-12 file).
With Freddy Peralta and Brandon Woodruff on the high of the rotation, Myers will look to repeat his success as one of many returners to the rotation in 2025, as he’s nonetheless pre-arbitration even at age 26.
We’ll proceed our rankings of the ten most precious Brewers every Monday and Wednesday into early December. Come again on Wednesday to see who we now have at No. 3.
Tobias Myers (2.7 bWAR, 2.2 fWAR)
Brice Turang (4.7 bWAR, 2.5 fWAR)
Freddy Peralta (2.6 bWAR, 2.3 fWAR)
Christian Yelich (2.2 bWAR, 3.0 fWAR)
Joey Ortiz (2.7 bWAR, 3.1 fWAR)
Trevor Megill (1.3 bWAR, 1.0 fWAR)
Sal Frelick (2.1 bWAR, 1.5 fWAR)
