Brewers' Logan Henderson gets hilarious Christmas gift from friends

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All things considered, 2025 was an amazing year of baseball for Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Logan Henderson. The right-hander made his major league debut and made five big-league starts, posting a 3-0 record and 1.78 earned run average with 33 strikeouts in 25 innings.

Ah, but good friends are often there to keep us humble.

Henderson posted a picture to Instagram with the message, "Thanks for the Christmas gift fellas," and an image of a specially purchased 2025 Topps Now baseball card featuring Pittsburgh's Oneil Cruz trotting around the bases. The card caption below Cruz's name: "122.9-mph HR breaks record for hardest hit ball."

The Topps Now series commemorates specific games and events from the preceding season.

It was Henderson who served up that longball. Cruz deployed the baseball out of PNC Park leading off the third inning of a game May 25, depositing it almost immediately into the Allegheny River. The missile broke Cruz's previous Major League Baseball exit-velocity record (122.4 miles per hour), all since Statcast began tracking exit velocities in 2015.

You'd be forgiven for forgetting the moment if you follow the Brewers. Milwaukee was up 3-0 at the time, and it was the only run allowed that day by Henderson, who worked five innings and finished with six strikeouts, two walks and five hits. Henderson actually struck out Cruz in both of his other two head-to-head at-bats.

The Brewers did lose the lead in the seventh, but Caleb Durbin and Brice Turang hit back-to-back two-out doubles in the eighth, and both Abner Uribe and Trevor Megill worked out of danger to lock down a 6-5 Brewers win.

Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Logan Henderson (43) exhales after his major league debut in the first inning of their game against the Oakland Athletics Sunday, April 20, 2025 at American Family Field in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The Brewers won all five of the games in which Henderson pitched. Milwaukee may have been able to use Henderson in the postseason, but he went on the injured list in August with elbow inflammation and didn't pitch again in 2025.

The 2021 fourth-round draft pick out of McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas, will nonetheless be an essential component of the team's pitching plans in 2026. He'll turn 24 years old in early March.

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Brewers' Logan Henderson gets hilarious Christmas gift from friends

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