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Who is your MLB team’s unsung hero so far this season

By Brad Weiss

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MILWAUKEE, WI – AUGUST 05: Milwaukee Brewers relief pitcher Jeremy Jeffress (32) delivers the ball against the Colorado Rockies on August 5, 2018 at Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo by Quinn Harris/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
MILWAUKEE, WI – AUGUST 05: Milwaukee Brewers relief pitcher Jeremy Jeffress (32) delivers the ball against the Colorado Rockies on August 5, 2018 at Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo by Quinn Harris/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) /

Milwaukee Brewers: Jeremy Jeffress

The Milwaukee Brewers are for real this season, and if the trade deadline is any indication, they are going all in for a World Series title. After bringing in guys like Lorenzo Cain and Christian Yelich in the offseason, the Brewers went out and got Mike Moustakas and Jonathan Schoop at the traded deadline, giving them one of the deepest lineups in all of baseball.

Currently sitting in second place in the NL Central behind the Chicago Cubs, the Brewers know they have some work left to do. Their manager, Craig Counsell, has rounded into one of the more consistent managers in the Major Leagues, and it appears the franchise made the right move by making him  their guy a couple of years back.

When it comes to this 2018 roster, a lot is to be said of their starting lineup, where they have power bats up and down from 1-8. However, we feel that their unsung hero is a guy that comes out of the bullpen for them, and if the Brewers are going to catch the Cubs, they will need Jeremy Jeffress to continue to dominate when called upon.

This season, Jeffress has mostly been the team’s setup man, but he has closed out a few games when he has been asked to. In total, he has appeared in 55 games for the Brew Crew, posting an earned run average under 1.30, all while striking out 63 batters in 55.2 inning of work. Not too shabby.

This Brewers team has the talent to make a deep run, and Jeffress has become a guy who they know they give the ball in any situation. Those kind of relievers are hard to find, and the Brewers definitely found a good one in Jeffress.

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