It’s probably possible to learn something about the value of bunts from the 2026 Milwaukee Brewers. It’s probably possible to learn about winning on a budget or trading power for contact at the plate. It’s probably possible to learn about the value of great managers, and about what a great manager really looks like—something the league knew once, but perhaps forgot. It’s possible, if you can get behind the curtains (some of them literal) far enough to see all the tech the team uses for player development and instruction and the ways they utilize it, to learn something huge and frighteningly complex about workloads or the relationship between a player’s maximum possible effort and their typical output. Realistically, though, you’re unlikely to get access to good enough information to learn most of those things, and you’re very likely to learn the wrong lessons from flyover surveys of the team’s success and sloppy summations of their operation by national media outlets.

They say it’s a copycat league, though—I hate when they say that, it’s hopelessly lazy, cliché, but they do. Any team who wins the World Series will be, in some way, aped by others. Teams don’t think about other teams’ success in the facile way that color commentators and vacationing football pontificators often do, but they do want to learn from the best. Let’s take a look, then, at three real ways that other teams could mimic the Brewers in years to come, using things we can see without embedded insights or proprietary data.

Make More Mizzes

Right off the bat, this sounds crazy, right? If it were that easy, everyone would do it. It’s true: No one else in baseball can do what Jacob Misiorowski can do. However, there are almost certainly several guys who can do a version of what he does. The league is chock-full of guys who throw 100 miles per hour. However, few of them fly down the mound the way Misiorowski does. The sheer velocity he generates is only a small part of what makes him exceptional. The rest is how explosive he is—how the ball gets on the hitter, both because he’s closing real distance between himself and the batter while the ball is still in his hand and because they have a hard time adjusting to the pace of his movement, as much as to the pace of the ball.