Jennings, Hader, Barnes, Albers, Drake and Jeffress are all on pace to pitch 70+ innings if they all stay healthy. This isn’t necessarily something new for the Brewers though.

Only 28 RP threw 70+ MLB innings in 2017. 3.5 of them were Brewers. Swarzak, Barnes, Knebel, and Torres. Of note, Hader threw 99.2 innings in 2017. He made 12 starts in AAA throwing 52 innings and 32 relief appearances throwing 47.2 innings in the bigs.

Would be ideal if Knebel can come back and pitch effectively to lighten the load on the rest of the high leverage relievers. Even if it means 3 IP less per week that needs to be covered by the Hader, Albers, and Barnes group that will have a big cumulative effect over the course of the final 4 months of the season.

Acquire nasty relievers with varied arsenals. Sell them all on being ‘out getters’. Have them prepared to work 1-2 innings each time out with likely at least one day off between appearances. BOOM! You have the recipe for modern baseball success.

All 3 of these components of the strategy have to be place and executed well to get the type of results that we have seen thus far.