Bauers made some legitimate improvements from his first to his second season with the Brewers. He was able to cut his strikeout rate from an untenable 34.1 percent down to a manageable 27.1 percent, and he also bumped up his walk rate from 11.3 percent to 14.7 percent, a mark which was the 11th-highest in baseball among 348 players to tally at least 200 plate appearances. Playing time and production remained inconsistent, however, as Bauers was slashing just .188/.314/.338 before a big September (1.018 OPS). The 30-year-old faces playing time uncertainty again heading into 2026, though Bauers has shown enough in recent years when given an opportunity to have spurts of fantasy viability. Read Past Outlooks