The Brewers have optioned Corbin Burnes to Triple-A San Antonio, per MLB Roster Moves. Righty Aaron Wilkerson has been recalled in his stead.
Burnes is among the candidates for most disappointing 2019. After a positive showing in last year’s playoffs, Burnes was ticketed for the rotation this season. Needless to say, things have not gone according to plan for Burnes, who sports a 8.85 ERA. He was sent to the minors after four starts at the beginning of the year in which he surrendered a total 21 earned runs in 17 2/3 innings.
He’s been better since joining the bullpen at the beginning of May, but a couple of blowups ballooned his bullpen ERA to 7.43 in 19 appearances. If we shorten the sample even further, we can get his ERA down to 4.50 in June, and if you squint even harder, a 3.56xFIP starts to look pretty good.
Wilkerson joins the club for the second time this season. The 30-year-old Wilkerson made three appearances in April, surrendering 6 earned runs in 7 1/3 innings.
Boohoo crew. I called it. Will finish 4th in central
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Just a brutal pitching staff. Pixie dust from the final six weeks of 2018 is long gone.
Whatever say what you want he struggled but still has a future with them. On the bright side there is still plenty of young guys in the minors that will come up and succeed. Brewers have some changes to make obviously but still championship caliber team. Bottom line this division is what they say it is just plain good.
All I’ve read so far is what is in this Trade Rumors post, but I’m guessing they’ve decided to go all out to turn Burnes into an effective starter. I really expected Nelson to go back down for a bunch of low pressure fine tuning and I still think that would be best. But somebody has to throw some innings in Milwaukee. Wilkerson is certainly no savior…