The Brewers announced that they’ve selected the contract of right-hander Deolis Guerra prior to today’s game, which fills the vacancy on their 40-man roster. Righty Aaron Wilkerson was optioned to Triple-A San Antonio to make room on the 25-man roster.
Offense in Triple-A is through the roof in 2019, but the 30-year-old Guerra nonetheless possesses a strong 2.61 ERA with 10.5 K/9, 2.2 BB/9, 1.09 HR/9 and a 39.3 percent ground-ball rate. The former Mets and Twins prospect was a key part to the Johan Santana blockbuster way back in 2008 (raise your hand if you expected to see Guerra and Carlos Gomez, the headliner in that deal, garner headlines on consecutive days in 2019).
While Guerra never made it to the bigs in either New York or Minnesota, he’s seen MLB action with both the Pirates and the Angels, tossing 95 1/3 inning with a 4.17 ERA, 7.1 K/9 and 2.1 BB/9. His most recent action came with the Halos back in 2017, and while he didn’t post impressive bottom-line numbers that season (4.68 ERA), he did show off a 14.9 percent swinging-strike rate. Guerra has 167 punchouts in his last 146 2/3 Triple-A innings, so he’ll add a swing-and-miss arm for manager Craig Counsell — at least in the short term.
I always liked Guerra when he was a Pirate. He seemed a little prone to giving up the long ball but he had decent stuff and could give you multiple innings if you needed them. I hope he does well if if he is a Brewer. 😉
Cant hurt it worth a shot absolutely
I thought the same. Always gotta root for all Pirates. Hadn’t realized he came up with my Twins too! Double reason to hope he does well:P
I did too.Like Casey Sadler,he will never be a star,but is a decent innings eater in the bullpen.He will not win you games but will not lose any either.Depth guys are important too and he is the type of pitcher who would have kept the Pirates in many of the games that they blew in May.
Just seeing this guys name makes me want to weep. I’m glad Steve didn’t mention a certain big trade he may have been involved in.
Oh yeah… I forgot about that one.
Thats nice and all but does no one else see that albers needs to go. Send him back to the beer league.
There are other problems on that Brewers staff….a lot of them.