Quinn Priester’s stunning success in 2025 for the Milwaukee Brewers has been delightful for plenty of baseball fans, except for those with loyalties to the Pittsburgh Pirates or Boston Red Sox (Priester’s former clubs). While the Red Sox are bewildered, Priester’s emergence might sting the most for Pirates fans, since Pittsburgh was the team that originally drafted him with the No. 18 overall selection in the 2019 Major League Baseball Draft.
Baseball minds inside the Pirates and Red Sox organizations are wondering about Priester, ‘Where was this magic when we had him?’ Priester made his MLB debut with Pittsburgh back on July 17, 2023, and it wasn’t pretty.