Brewers announced to reporters, including Kurt Hogg from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, A series of menu moves before today’s match. Valid Freddy Peralta Returned from the infected list for 60 days, while the acquisition deadline Matt Bush It has been added to the list. player Keystone Hura As he was called. In the corresponding moves, the club really chose Peter Strzelecki And the appointed righteous Denilson Lamet and holder Pedro Severino for commissioning.
Lamet’s exclusion from the list comes as a surprise, as he was just acquired from Padres two days ago as part of Josh Hader trade. Adam McCalvey from MLB.com He quoted a quote from the Brewers’ head of baseball operations, David Stearns, in an attempt to clarify. “Dinelson has a good arm and is included in the trade to help balance the deal,” Stearns says. “As subsequent transactions continue, the list has gotten a little trickier. Hopefully we can keep it in our system.”
The reference to “post-transactions” seemed to suggest that the brewers ended up making other trades that knocked Lamette out of their plans. Lamet and the other two players were acquired in Hader’s deal on Monday, a day before the trade deadline. With the deadline expiring yesterday, the club also added Bosch and Trevor Rosenthal in separate deals. The Brewers probably value those bombers higher than they see Lamet, which has led to Lamet losing his place on the list today.
Although Lamet technically has options left, hog He points out that he recently passed the MLB’s five-year tenure. Players who exceed this limit cannot be selected without their consent, which means that Lamet must be removed from the DFA from the list. It also means that if Lamet cancels the waivers, he will have the right to decline an outright assignment and choose a free agency without losing his pay, as can all players over five years of MLB service.
Honestly, it would be pretty surprising if Lamett justified the concessions, given his track record and modest salary. He was one of the top shooters in baseball during the brief 2020 season, scoring 2.09 ERA on 12 starts with a 34.8% strike rate and 7.5% walk rate. He dealt with injury problems in subsequent seasons, being relegated to the Football League and occasionally being selected for the minors. However, he is making a modest salary of $4.775 million this year and can be kept for another season by arbitration. Due to his injuries, poor performance and time spent at the Palace, he likely won’t get a huge raise for 2023.
Now that the trade deadline has come and gone, it complicates Lamet’s situation. For one thing, brewers won’t be able to come up with a deal to send Lamet elsewhere, as they could have done so before the deadline. For another thing, for clubs looking for major promotions from outside their organisation, waiver claims are the only effective way now to do so. It seems very likely that some clubs will give Lamette a chance, whether it’s a rival looking for a downward push or a rebuilding team that will give him some time to get back into shape and perhaps trade him in the off-season or next year.
Outside of Lamet’s case, this would immediately change the calculus of evaluating Hader’s trade. “The players we welcome into this trade help ensure that the future of the Milwaukee Brewers remains bright while not compromising our desire and expectation to win today,” Stearns penned the deal at the time. “This combination of current major-league talent and top-level prospects furthers our goal of getting as many apples as possible and, ultimately, bringing a world championship to Milwaukee. It is difficult to exchange good players for good teams, and that is certainly the case with Josh. We We also recognize that to give our organization the best chance of continued competitiveness, and to avoid the long downtime that many organizations are going through, we must make decisions that are not easy.” Two of the four acquired players, Robert Gasser and Astori Ruiz, have already been assigned to minor league clubs. Although they could be called up later in the year, this currently leaves Taylor Rogers as the only player from the trade on the major league roster. While Rogers is certainly a good player, few would argue that he is capable of promoting at an elite level at Hader.
More is coming.
