{"id":442014,"date":"2026-10-30T00:44:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/442014\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T00:44:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:44:54","slug":"milwaukee-brewers-william-contreras-wins-world-series-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/442014\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Brewers’ William Contreras wins World Series MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 William Contreras became the eighth catcher voted the World Series MVP after lifting the Milwaukee Brewers to their first World Series championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The heart and soul of the small-market Brewers, Contreras batted .381 while guiding Milwaukee\u2019s pitching staff and capitalizing on the first Series with the Automated Ball-Strike challenge system by winning 10 of 13 appeals. He had an RBI double during Milwaukee\u2019s clinching 4-1 victory in Game 5 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe posts every day,\u201d reliever Aaron Ashby said. \u201cThis team\u2019s not what it is without this guy. He\u2019s unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moments after being awarded MVP, Contreras embraced his older brother, Boston Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras, who won a World Series with the Chicago Cubs in 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy brother\u2019s my best friend,\u201d William Contreras said through tears.<\/p>\n

He teared up again when asked about Venezuela, his home country. Contreras was on Venezuela\u2019s team that won its first World Baseball Classic in March, though he was 0 for 13 with no RBIs. He draped a Venezuelan flag over his shoulders while celebrating on the field Wednesday.<\/p>\n

He and teammates Jackson Chourio and Antonio Senzatela joined Alex Bregman and Luke Gregerson (Team USA\/Houston Astros in 2017) as the only players to win the WBC and World Series in the same year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means everything because that\u2019s the first time Venezuela guys win the WBC and the World Series,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s history, history for my country. I love Venezuela. It\u2019s my country.\u201d<\/p>\n

He joins Gene Tenace (1972), Johnny Bench (1976), Steve Yeager (co-winner in 1981), Darrell Porter (1982), Rick Dempsey (1983), Pat Borders (1992) and Salvador Perez (2015) as catchers to win the award.<\/p>\n

A three-time All-Star, the 28-year-old Contreras batted .270 with 18 homers and a career-best 94 RBIs as the Brewers won their fourth straight NL Central title.<\/p>\n

He leveraged baseball\u2019s new robot umpire challenge system better than anyone, leading MLB with 185 challenges and 105 overturns during the regular season. He was right on 10 of 13 challenges in the World Series and 22 of 33 overall in the postseason.<\/p>\n

He hit .444 with a pair of solo homers in the Division Series against San Diego, hitting a tiebreaking, seventh-inning drive in Game 1 and another homer in Game 3. He batted .357 with one homer and three RBIs in the Championship Series sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee had several worthy candidates for MVP. Cooper Pratt set a Series rookie record with six straight hits and tied Gil McDougald\u2019s rookie mark from 1951 with seven RBIs, including go-ahead hits in the final three games. Jackson Chourio had 11 hits, the most by a player in a five-game World Series. Ace Jacob Misiorowski allowed just one run in 10 2\/3 innings, and reliever Aaron Ashby pitched 5 2\/3 scoreless innings with a save and nine strikeouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 William Contreras became the eighth catcher voted the World Series MVP after lifting the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[81664,3823,202,204,203,199,201,200,97613,172403,172402],"class_list":["post-442014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-william-contreras","tag-wilson-contreras","tag-world-series-mvp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}