2020 Milwaukee Brewers season

The 2020 Milwaukee Brewers season was the 51st season for the Brewers in Milwaukee, the 23rd in the National League, and 52nd overall. The Brewers finished the regular season 29-31 and clinched the eighth seed in the postseason, becoming the first National League team to clinch the playoffs with a losing record. This marked the first time in franchise history where the Brewers clinched a playoff berth in three consecutive years, starting with the 2018 season.
On March 12, 2020, MLB announced that because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the start of the regular season would be delayed by at least two weeks in addition to the remainder of spring training being cancelled. Four days later, it was announced that the start of the season would be pushed back indefinitely due to the recommendation made by the CDC to restrict events of more than 50 people for eight weeks. On June 23, commissioner Rob Manfred unilaterally implemented a 60-game season. Players reported to training camps on July 1 in order to resume spring training and prepare for a July 24 Opening Day. The Brewers lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in two games in the NLWCS.

Spring training

The Brewers finished spring training with a record of 10–7. They also had 15 games canceled, 3 due to rain, and 12 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Spring training was limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Upon returning to play in July 2020, the team played intra-squad scrimmages instead of playing a full complement of spring training games. The team flew by charter planes to their scrimmages. On July 22, they defeated the Chicago White Sox, in their only exhibition game during the restart, 5–3.

Postseason rosters

Pitchers: 29 Josh Lindblom 35 Brent Suter 37 Adrian Houser 43 Drew Rasmussen 46 Corey Knebel 50 Ray Black 51 Freddy Peralta 53 Brandon Woodruff 56 Justin Topa 57 Eric Yardley 58 Alex Claudio 71 Josh Hader
Catchers: 9 Manny Piña 10 Omar Narváez 20 David Freitas
Infielders: 2 Luis Urías 3 Orlando Arcia 5 Jedd Gyorko 7 Eric Sogard 18 Keston Hiura 20 Daniel Vogelbach 28 Ryon Healy
Outfielders: 8 Ryan Braun 14 Jace Peterson 15 Tyrone Taylor 16 Ben Gamel 22 Christian Yelich 24 Avisaíl García

Statistics

Regular season

Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases; BB = Walks; K = Strikeouts; AVG = Batting average; OBP = On base percentage; SLG = Slugging percentage; TB = Total bases

Player
	40	108	8	19	4	0	2	10	0	16	39	.176	.294	.562	29
	33	113	14	21	7	0	5	15	1	10	40	.186	.262	.381	43
	59	217	30	46	4	0	13	32	3	16	85	.212	.297	.410	89
	59	173	22	45	10	1	5	20	2	14	32	.260	.317	.416	72
	43	115	10	24	5	0	1	10	0	11	20	.209	.281	.278	32
	58	200	39	41	7	1	12	22	4	46	76	.205	.356	.430	86
	53	181	20	43	10	0	2	15	1	20	49	.238	.333	.326	59
	40	114	13	27	8	1	3	10	0	13	39	.237	.315	.404	46
	39	129	14	30	7	1	8	26	1	7	27	.233	.281	.488	63
	42	117	19	29	3	0	9	17	0	15	38	.248	.333	.504	59
	41	109	11	26	4	1	0	11	2	10	32	.239	.308	.294	32
	19	58	13	19	2	0	4	12	0	8	18	.328	.418	.569	33
	26	45	6	9	1	0	2	5	1	15	20	.200	.393	.356	16
	20	48	8	9	1	0	4	13	0	5	20	.188	.278	.458	22
	15	39	4	9	1	0	2	5	0	3	11	.231	.333	.410	16
	22	38	6	9	4	0	2	6	0	2	8	.237	.293	.500	19
	16	36	2	10	3	0	0	4	1	0	7	.278	.278	.361	13
	16	30	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	4	9	.100	.222	.100	3
	9	25	3	3	1	0	1	2	0	3	8	.120	.214	.280	7
	5	18	4	6	1	0	0	2	0	3	2	.333	.429	.389	7
	4	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.143	1
Team totals	60	1920	247	429	83	5	75	238	15	221	582	.223	.313	.389	747

Pitching

Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts

Player
	3	5	3.05	13	13	0	73.2	55	26	25	18	91
	4	1	2.11	12	9	0	59.2	37	15	14	24	88
	1	6	5.30	12	11	0	56.0	63	41	33	21	44
	4	4	4.21	10	10	0	47.0	50	24	22	10	32
	2	4	5.16	12	10	0	45.1	42	26	26	16	52
	1	2	3.79	21	0	13	19.0	8	8	8	10	31
	2	0	3.13	16	4	0	31.2	30	13	11	5	38
	4	1	0.33	22	0	0	27.0	8	4	1	9	53
	2	0	1.54	24	0	0	23.1	19	6	4	10	19
	0	0	4.26	20	0	1	19.0	18	10	9	6	15
	3	1	3.99	15	0	0	29.1	22	14	13	12	47
	1	0	5.87	12	0	0	15.1	17	10	10	9	21
	0	0	6.08	15	0	0	13.1	15	9	9	8	15
	2	3	2.77	12	0	0	13.0	7	5	4	2	20
	0	2	13.09	4	2	0	11.0	17	16	16	9	12
	0	0	5.79	6	0	0	9.1	4	6	6	5	7
	0	1	2.35	6	0	0	7.2	7	3	2	0	12
	0	0	17.36	4	0	0	4.2	9	9	9	4	6
	0	0	3.00	3	0	0	3.0	2	1	1	3	3
	0	0	20.25	3	0	0	2.2	3	7	6	7	5
	0	1	11.57	3	0	0	2.1	4	3	3	0	1
	0	0	18.00	2	0	0	2.0	4	4	4	1	0
	0	0	36.00	1	0	0	1.0	4	4	4	0	2
	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	0
Team totals	29	31	4.16	60	60	14	517.1	446	264	239	189	614

Source

Farm system

The Brewers' farm system consisted of nine minor league affiliates in 2020. The minor league season, however, was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Milwaukee planned to operate a Dominican Summer League team as a co-op with the Toronto Blue Jays.

Milwaukee Brewers monetary losses

A report in the Milwaukee Business Journal has estimated that the Milwaukee Brewers lost $178.3 million revenue as a result of having no fans. For 2020, Team Marketing Report has calculated $5 billion in losses for Major League Baseball.