The Brewers headed home from their west-coast trip to open their second-half home schedule with the best record in baseball. They're an amazing home team, too, having gone 33-17 to this point in American Family Field. On their last homestand, the Brewers went 6-0 and that included a three-game sweep of the Dodgers .

The amazing Milwaukee Brewers are the worst thing to happen to major league owners crying poor.

Featured in this week’s MLB Power Rankings, the Brewers climb to the top of our rankings, the Yankees can’t figure out the Blue Jays, another injury for the Astros, Rich Hill is on the brink of history, and we’re taking stock of the upcoming MLB trade deadline.

The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal pleads with the Brewers to trade for Diamondbacks 3B Eugenio Suarez at the MLB trade deadline.

Cubs left fielder Ian Happ, who has been battling the Brewers as a division rival longer than anyone on the roster, had a different take on the situation.

Well, they're likely not going to finish 122-40, but after a 6-0 victory over the Seattle Mariners July 21, the Brewers have won 11 straight games and suddenly have Major League Baseball's best record. That also means they've hurdled the rival Chicago Cubs in the National League Central Division standings.

Despite a bottom-10 payroll, the Brewers are among MLB's best teams again extracting the most out of their talent.

Cubs' Jed Hoyer Makes Brewers Admission Before MLB Trade Deadline originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Chicago Cubs made an excellent decision to hire Craig Counsell. Jed Hoyer did the right job by poaching him from the Milwaukee Brewers, but unfortunately for the Cubs, Milwaukee hasn't gone away.

With the MLB trade deadline approaching, the Brewers are entering the chat as major players for Eugenio Suárez.

Freddy Peralta won his seventh straight start, Isaac Collins and Joey Ortiz homered, and the Milwaukee Brewers held off the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-7 to extend their win streak to a season-best nine.