MILWAUKEE — Dallas Keuchel believes he nonetheless has a lot to supply a serious league group.
The Milwaukee Brewers are hoping the 2015 AL Cy Younger Award winner can present a lift to their injury-riddled pitching employees now that he is labored his approach again into the majors. They despatched money to the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday to amass Keuchel, who had spent all of this season within the minors.
“I’ve labored via some accidents, sort of labored via some stuff — poor efficiency, well being stuff,” the 36-year-old left-hander stated Tuesday evening. “However I knew deep down I nonetheless had a few years left.”
Keuchel has gone 7-4 with a 3.93 ERA in 13 begins with the Mariners’ Triple-A affiliate in Tacoma this season. Keuchel final pitched within the majors with the Minnesota Twins in 2023, when he went 2-1 with a 5.97 ERA in 10 appearances.
“The truth that he nonetheless needs to play, the truth that he nonetheless needs to do it in spite of everything he is completed, I believe that sends a message proper there,” Brewers supervisor Pat Murphy stated. “He is a ballplayer.”
Keuchel owns a 103-92 document and 4.02 ERA in a serious league profession that features two All-Star appearances, in 2015 and 2017. He went 20-8 with a 2.43 ERA with the Houston Astros in his Cy Younger Award-winning season of 2015.
However he has tailed off fairly a bit over the previous few years whereas struggling to stay with a number of groups. He went a mixed 2-9 with a 9.20 ERA for 3 completely different groups in 2022 earlier than spending final season with the Twins.
“It sort of makes you’re taking a step again and marvel for those who nonetheless wish to do it or for those who nonetheless can do it, however the entire time I felt just like the love of the sport and my want to win and compete continues to be there,” Keuchel stated.
Keuchel has been sharp currently. Over his previous three appearances with Tacoma, Keuchel allowed simply two runs — one earned — over 17 innings.
“My stuff is as crisp as it has been in a very long time,” he stated.
The Brewers wanted so as to add some beginning pitching depth as they take care of quite a few accidents to their pitching employees. Milwaukee leads the NL Central regardless of getting simply 375â…“ complete innings from its beginning pitchers via Monday to rank next-to-last within the majors, forward of solely San Francisco’s 371â…” innings.
Milwaukee traded 2021 NL Cy Younger Award winner Corbin Burnes to the Baltimore Orioles earlier than the season and knew going into the yr that two-time All-Star Brandon Woodruff would not pitch in any respect in 2024 whereas recovering from offseason shoulder surgical procedure.
Wade Miley and Robert Gasser have undergone Tommy John surgical procedure and can miss the remainder of the season. Different Brewers pitchers on the injured record embrace Joe Ross (decrease again), Jakob Junis (proper shoulder), DL Corridor (left knee), Taylor Clarke (toe), JB Bukauskas (proper lat) and two-time All-Star nearer Devin Williams (again).
Hoby Milner, usually a left-handed reliever, began Milwaukee’s 3-1 victory over the Texas Rangers on Tuesday as an opener and have become the thirteenth completely different Brewers pitcher to begin a sport this season. That matches the Miami Marlins for the best complete of any main league group.
In different strikes Tuesday, the Brewers transferred Gasser to the 60-day injured record, chosen right-hander Joel Kuhnel from Triple-A Nashville and optioned right-hander Carlos Rodriguez to Nashville.
