Maybe he can keep it up long-term, maybe he can’t. Regardless, as we sit here at this moment, Jacob Misiorowski is one of the most impressive pitchers in recent memory.
By that, I don’t just mean his results, which were overwhelming this year (1.80 ERA over 174.2 IP, 2.17 FIP, 37.9% K, 6.6% BB, 3.6% barrel, 6.6 WAR). I mean what he’s able to actually do in order to get those numbers. The guy is 6’7″ of lanky awkwardness with so much whip in his delivery that you cannot fathom how he could possibly repeat his mechanics enough to be a good reliever, much less a starting pitcher.
But he does it. And he does it so well that the very things that make it difficult for him to be as good as he is are the things that make him EXTRA difficult to hit. Atypical release heights and angles? Check. Outrageous spin and movement? Check. Off-the-charts extension from a guy who is already throwing at the top of the velocity chart? Good gravy check.
Jacob Misiorowski is a freak, and is his season is what it looks like when you get a 90th percentile outcome from a guy whose frame and size and stuff create the POSSIBILITY for that kind of outcome. There are a handful of pitching prospects from time to time who look like him and can do some of the things he can do. Virtually none of them actually put it all together at once and sustain it. Let us all be afraid that, next year in his age-25 season, his 90th percentile outcome could become something like a 70th or 60th percentile outcome as he gets more and more comfortable.
Yet I don’t have it in me to write a post lavishing exclusively praise on a Milwaukee Brewer. Or at least, doing so was not what prompted me in the first place to write a post about Jacob Misiorowski.
Instead, it was this article at ESPN from Jeff Passan. It’s a profile/promo/dap-full type thing, and mildly interesting in that respect. But what jumped out at me was the framing: “Jacob Misiorowski brings tall tales — and talent — to World Series.”
Jacob Misiorowski does things on the baseball field that defy what we thought possible. He also says things that his teammates still aren’t sure can be true. The delightful tales of the Miz, who starts Game 1 of the World Series tonight, free at ESPN: t.co/9VBmfkHXzu t.co/xgHoxYxAcb
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) October 23, 2026Tall tales? Weird for a guy who is getting so much love, but apparently you can’t avoid it when talking about Misiorowski with those who know him well, at least per the article.
For a stray example:
‘Misiorowski himself played catcher when he was younger — and, by his account, had the greatest arm in the history of the position.
“Yesterday in the outfield, he’s trying to do catcher pop time, just messing around with it,” Brewers left-hander Robert Gasser said. “And he’s like, ‘In high school, I threw one 97 to second base.’ And I’m like, ‘Miz, that’s not possible.’ “
It is true that Misiorowski played catcher when he was younger. And it is true that in high school his arm could reach 97 mph. But the hardest catcher throw in MLB’s ball-tracking era was 89.3 mph from Christian Bethancourt in 2016.’
I like the idea of a pitcher teammate of Misiorowski’s having to tell him that, no, you didn’t throw from behind the plate EIGHT MPH FASTER than the fastest ever BIG LEAGUE catcher when you were in high school.
Or how about this one:
‘There are always wisps of truth in Misiorowski’s yarns. During spring training in 2024, veteran pitchers Wade Miley and Brandon Woodruff set up an outing for the Brewers’ young pitchers at the Westin Kierland Golf Club in Phoenix. As they were figuring out how to divide up into teams, each player was asked for his handicap. Misiorowski’s answer, according to Miley and multiple current Brewers there to hear it:
“I was a scratch golfer in high school.”
Now, it’s true that Misiorowski can drive the ball a mile. But after the ensuing round, the mythology of Misiorowski’s golf game has taken on a life of its own.
“We go out there,” Brewers reliever DL Hall said, “and it would had to have been the most extreme falloff ever for him to have been scratch in high school and go to what he was that day.”‘
Big leaguers take their golf game pretty seriously, and although this is presented as a bit of humor, I can imagine that his teammates would be a little less charitable about Misiorowski’s tendency to fabulize if he wasn’t such a dominant pitcher.
Now, I’m not saying – nor does the article imply – that Misiorowski is some kind of serial liar. In the clips I’ve seen over the last couple years, he mostly just strikes me as a nice enough, dorky kind of guy. It’s just really weird that the entire framing for this happy-ha-ha look at him as a player and teammate is about how he tells tall tales.
As I said, it won’t much matter if he continues to dominate for the Brewers, and it certainly doesn’t take away from what he’s accomplished. It just struck me as weird.
But also: dang I wish the Cubs had a Jacob Misiorowski telling as many tall tales as he wanted …
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