2025 MVBrewers #9: Abner Uribe

Caleb Durbin took our No. 8 spot earlier this week, and today we’re here to crown the No. 9 player in our MVBrewers rankings. Reliever Abner Uribe lays claim here, as he received 10 votes from the BCB community. Chad Patrick received four votes, while Andrew Vaughn and write-in votes for Aaron Ashby each received three votes.

Uribe, 25, burst onto the scene with the Brewers in 2023, appearing in 32 games after being called up in early July. In 30 2/3 innings that year, Uribe allowed just eight runs (six earned), including no home runs. He struck out 39 and pitched to a 1.76 ERA and 2.77 FIP.

To build on that success, Uribe emerged from 2024 spring training as the team’s closer after Devin Williams went on the IL to start the season. Instead, Uribe struggled, appearing in just 14 games with a 6.91 ERA, 4.63 FIP and 14 strikeouts in 14 1/3 innings. He was subsequently involved in an altercation with the Rays’ Jose Siri, resulting in a suspension.

Before he could serve the suspension, however, he was demoted to Triple-A, where he subsequently suffered a knee injury that required surgery and kept him out for the rest of the year.

He returned to the big league club in 2025, and after serving that suspension, led the team with 75 appearances and a total of 75 1/3 innings, fifth on the team and the highest mark among relievers. What did he do during those 75 games? Threw to a 1.67 ERA, 2.75 FIP and 90 strikeouts, and added seven saves while filling in for an injured Trevor Megill late in the year.

Uribes Baseball Savant Page is filled with red, because he ranked in the top 10% in xERA, xBA, fastball velocity, average exit velocity, whiff rate, strikeout rate, barrel velocity, hard-hit velocity, and groundball velocity. His 2.9% barrel rate was actually in the 100th percentile.

All three of his pitches – sinker, slider and 4-seam fastball – scored above average. He went with the sinker 51% of the time and the slider 46% of the time, causing a lot of groundouts on the former and a lot of swings and misses on the latter.

However, he did face his share of problems in the postseason, allowing two runs on three hits and four walks while striking out six in six innings (3.00 ERA, 3.14 FIP), although he did strike out a strikeout in Game 2 of the NLDS.

During his 75 appearances, he played exactly one inning almost every time, facing the minimum with three strikeouts in four of those games and three strikeouts in an inning. His longest outing was a two-inning break on June 10 against the Braves, in which he struck out only one batter but allowed only one baserunner.

We conclude our rankings on Tuesday with our number 10 player (along with some honorable mentions). Visit The Feed to weigh in on the vote.