Brewers top All-MLB selections as Milwaukee lands four honorees in Las Vegas

The Brewers did not need a postseason award to make the point: their regular season was strong enough to put four players on MLB’s All-MLB list, the most of any club.

MLB unveiled its 2026 First and Second Teams on Wednesday night as part of the awards festivities in Las Vegas, with the selections based entirely on regular-season performance and split evenly between fan voting and an expert panel. That structure mattered here. The ballot did not reward reputation alone, and it did not account for October. It reflected what players actually produced over six months.

Milwaukee’s four selections spread across the roster rather than piling up in one spot. Brice Turang and Jackson Chourio made the First Team, giving the Brewers two of the league’s 16 first-team spots. Turang landed at second base after a season that pushed him into a different class statistically: career highs in home runs, OPS, runs and RBIs, plus 19 stolen bases and his second Gold Glove. His 5.9 WAR, per FanGraphs, tied for fifth among position players. That is the kind of all-around season that turns a steady regular into one of the year’s top infielders.

Chourio’s selection carried a different shape but the same result. He joined the 20-20 club for a third straight season and finished with 4.6 WAR, enough to place him among the sport’s best outfielders on a full-season basis. The award did not isolate one hot stretch or one memorable series; it rewarded a complete body of work, and Chourio’s numbers fit that standard.

The rest of the first team featured several of the game’s familiar heavyweights. Pete Alonso earned the first-base spot after leading the American League with 43 home runs and 113 RBIs in his new uniform. He also reached 307 career homers, the second-most by any player since his 2019 debut. Bobby Witt Jr. took shortstop after another broad-based season for Kansas City, with 24 Outs Above Average, an .800 OPS and 45 stolen bases. Fernando Tatis Jr. rounded out the outfield trio after a slow start that included no home runs in his first 55 games, then a strong finish that left him with 25 homers, 38 steals and 5.4 WAR.

That mix explains why Milwaukee’s total stood out. The Brewers did not merely place one star near the top of the ballot; they spread value across positions, with Turang’s rise in the infield and Chourio’s production in the outfield giving the club a wider footprint than most teams managed.

The league’s top honors also underline how the All-MLB format works. It is not an award for the best team record, and it is not a postseason summary. It is a season-long inventory of the game’s best regular-season performers, with one catcher, one first baseman, one second baseman, one shortstop, one third baseman, one designated hitter, three outfielders, five starting pitchers and two relievers on each team. Milwaukee’s four selections fit that framework because the Brewers had multiple players who stacked up well against the rest of the league at their positions.

For a team that finished with the World Series title and the biggest haul on the night, the result is straightforward: the Brewers did not just win games, they also filled out the awards sheet better than anyone else. The next check on that core comes when the league’s full honors cycle is complete and the attention turns back to how those regular-season standards hold up in the year ahead.