Brewers' biggest flaw heading into MLB postseason revealed by ESPN

The Milwaukee Brewers have already secured a postseason spot and even locked up the NL Central with nine games left to go this season.

There's reason to believe this Brewers team, led by Jacob Misiorowski, the likely NL Cy Young winner, can make it to the World Series. But that doesn't mean they're a perfect team. In fact, there's one major issue still hurting this club.

As ESPN's David Schoenfield highlighted, the biggest flaw for this Brewers team is the lack of real power from the offense, as their home run numbers are well below average and are closer to the bottom of MLB than even the middle of the pack.

Brewers' biggest flaw is their HR struggles

"Milwaukee Brewers. Fatal flaw: Lack of power (tied for 28th in the majors in home runs)," Schoenfield writes.

The division rival Chicago Cubs lead all of Major League Baseball with 211 home runs, while the Brewers are all the way down at 147, tied for second-worst in the big leagues with the Cleveland Guardians.

Only the Los Angeles Angels, one of the worst teams in baseball, have hit fewer homers than the Brewers, and it's just a difference of one home run, as the Angels have 146 this year.

Home runs are the end-all, be-all for determining which team is going to make a deep postseason run. But hitting home runs certainly helps when trying to make a push.

The Brewers have some hitters who can hit the long ball, but their overall lineup doesn't really feature much power-hitting potential.

Jake Bauers leads the team with 26 home runs, with Jackson Chourio at 23 homers the only other player with at least 20 home runs this season.

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Brice Turang at 19 and William Contreras at 17 are the only other hitters on the team with more than 11 homers. Garrett Mitchell, Gary Sanchez, and Christian Yelich all have 11 each, with no other hitter in double digits.

A large portion of this lineup doesn't hit home runs. While they might be a good offense, come the postseason, home runs might be the missing piece stopping this Brewers squad from making a deep run.

While the pitching and defense are great, and even the offense isn't in a bad spot, October is the time of the year when home runs become significantly more valuable.

Once the NLDS gets underway, it will be very interesting to see how the Brewers fare, whether they get some better home run luck or not, and whether or not it leads to a deep run to the World Series.

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