Milwaukee Brewers 2025 preview by position: Shortstop

Harrison Freuck is the managing editor of Brew Crew Ball, where he's covered the Brewers since 2022. He was previously the sports editor and editor in chief of The Badger Herald, where he covered Wisconsin Badgers athletics.

Looking back at our shortstop preview from 2024, talk about major changes. Willy Adames is now a San Francisco Giant, and Eric Brown Jr. doesn’t figure to be anywhere close to the fold. Instead, this will be a battle (though it seems like it’s leaning heavily toward one of them) between Joey Ortiz and Brice Turang.

Ortiz seems to be the assumed shortstop at this point — the Brewers’ depth chart doesn’t even list him as a backup at third base — but we’ve also seen Turang…