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Milwaukee Brewers trade deadline summarized in 1 word

Originally posted on WI Sports Heroics | By Tyler Koerth_ | Last updated Aug 5, 2025 6:46 AM ET

The Milwaukee Brewers are entering play on August 5, 2025 with the best record in baseball. Over the last two months, they have been firing on all cylinders, the front office made moves early in the season by bringing in Quinn Priester and Andrew Vaughn, and despite recent injuries to Jackson Chourio and Jacob Misiorowski, they are continuing to get healthier.

All of this led to what looked like another underwhelming trade deadline haul for them, as this year they added an outfielder named Brandon Lockridge from the San Diego Padres and a pair of injured pitchers in Shelby Miller and Jordan Montgomery from the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Despite this, The Athletic recently summarized their trade deadline with the word “icing”. Here’s why.

Milwaukee Brewers trade deadline summarized in one word: Icing

Staff writers at The Athletic Grant Brisbee, Chad Jennings and Levi Weaver described the Brewers trade deadline with the word icing. Their reasoning is as follows:

Here are two major additions to the 2025 Milwaukee Brewers: Jacob Misiorowski (debuted June 12) and Brandon Woodruff (returned from IL on July 6).

No team in baseball added two starters of that quality, and it didn’t cost the Brewers a single prospect.

As constructed, Milwaukee has a very dangerous rotation, a fun and effective style of offense, and a bullpen that isn’t bad (and just added Shelby Miller). We’ll see how that translates in October!

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