Commissioner emeritus and former Brewers owner Bud Selig waited 44 years for the Brewers’ second World Series, 58 years since he brought the team to Milwaukee.
“This is a great moment for me. This is a great moment for Milwaukee,” Selig, 92, told The Post. “I had a good feeling this year. This team, you’re going to see, is different.”
The Brewers are a rare team to employ three World Series starters in their first full seasons (Jacob Misiorowski, Logan Henderson, Robert Gasser). The last one to do so was the 2015 Mets, with Noah Syndergaard, Jacob deGrom and Steven Matz, who’s now a Ray
Kevin Long, whom the Mets are interviewing for the hitting coach job after his Phillies firing, has strong ties there, not only with Soto from the Nats but with Mets exec Carlos Beltrán, who cited Long as the one who taught him how to switch hit as a young Royals minor leaguer.