Brewers Flamethrower Misiorowski Has a Message for Fans Worried About His Elbow

Jacob Misiorowski is throwing 100 mph and hearing the same question over and over. Can your elbow take it?

The Milwaukee Brewers right-hander, who was named to the NL All-Star team for the 2026 season, has heard the chatter. Fans watch him uncork fastball after fastball and they remember what happened to Tarik Skubal. Another hard thrower. Another elbow surgery. So naturally, they worry.

Misiorowski gets it. He just doesn’t share the concern.

“I get people’s concerns, like obviously you look across and you see Skubal, another hard thrower coming back from surgery,” Misiorowski told USA Today’s Bob Nightengale. “So, I see the concerns. But at the same time, that’s just how I throw. I’ve taught myself how to throw hard, how to recover. I think it’s kind of beating a dead horse. It gets to a point where I think I have it pretty much under control of what I need to do, week in and week out, to get my body ready for the next start. I really don’t worry about it.”

The Brewers are sitting at 54-33, first place in the NL Central. That’s a comfortable lead. But the real question around Milwaukee isn’t whether they can hold off the Cubs or the Reds. It’s whether their electric young arm can hold up through a long October push.

Last year ended in the NLCS, where the Dodgers swept the Brewers like they weren’t even there. L.A. went on to win the World Series. Milwaukee went home wondering what might have been. This year feels different. They’ve got the pitching. They’ve got the depth. And they’ve got Misiorowski, who at 24 years old has stayed relatively healthy his whole career. That doesn’t mean the worry is wrong. It just means so far, he’s been right.

The Skubal Comparison Makes Sense But Misiorowski Isn’t Buying It

Skubal came back from flexor tendon surgery in 2023 and has been dominant since. He’s the cautionary tale. But Misiorowski sees it differently. He’s spent years learning how to throw hard without wrecking himself. He’s built his routine around recovery. He’s not just winging it out there.

The All-Star game is later this month in Philadelphia. Misiorowski will be there, representing a Brewers team that looks like a real threat in the National League. Whether he starts or comes out of the bullpen, all those cameras will be on that right arm. And somewhere, a few Brewers fans will be holding their breath.

Misiorowski won’t be one of them. He’s got a Sunday afternoon start against the Diamondbacks to worry about first. After that, who knows.