The Brewers reinstated reliever Bennett Sousa from the 60-day injured list and optioned him to Triple-A Nashville, per the transaction log at MLB.com. Milwaukee transferred Justin Wilson from the 15-day to the 60-day IL to clear the necessary 40-man roster spot.
Sousa missed a couple months with a nerve issue in his throwing shoulder. Acquired from the division-rival Reds in April, the 28-year-old southpaw has made a pair of appearances for the Brew Crew this season. He’s logged 16 innings with Nashville, allowing 10 runs (nine earned). He’s fanned 22 hitters at the top minor league level. Milwaukee acquired Andrew Chafin at the trade deadline to pair with Hoby Milner as left-handed options for Craig Counsell. Now that he’s healthy, Sousa is in the mix behind them.
Wilson’s brutally-timed injury could well have increased Milwaukee’s urgency to trade for Chafin. The veteran lefty strained a lat while warming up for what would’ve been his first appearance after a Tommy John rehab. He’ll miss the remainder of the season and seems quite likely to be bought out next winter, meaning he might never make an appearance as a Brewer.
How is this newsworthy yet I haven’t seen anything on Brandon Woodruff coming off the IL and starting Sunday’s game?
I thought they had an article on Woodruff a while back, but the search feature on this site is awful.
@MLBTR Staff – Is there any way to change the order of results when readers use your Search feature? They should be ordered by date (most recent article showing up first). I tried searching for some trade information on a player but the first two pages of results were articles about the player dating back to 2017-2018. I gave up after Page 3 of the search results and just went back to the main site and scrolled through the recent articles until I found what I was looking for. It took about 8 or 9 “load more entries” clicks to find what I was looking for but it was much easier to do that than trying to find the article using the site Search feature.
Thought that was strange, as well. No love for the big woo.
I seem to recall something about him prior to his rehab start(s), but being reinstated and starting is clearly a bigger deal. Not trying to be a jerk, really more curious if it just didn’t show on my phone for some reason.
It’s happened a handful of times when I open the app, it shows stories from 3 weeks, 3 months, or 3 years ago rather than current news. Wondering too if that’s just me, or if others had it too. Happened on nfl rumors also.
Did not see anything on mlb trade rumors either. Which is very strange. Probably the biggest starting pitcher added around the all-star break.
With Sousa, we note that the Brewers are getting the band back together….
May he conduct himself well and be instrumental in their concerted march to the playoffs.
We’ll be watching the scores.