The Milwaukee Brewers entered the trade deadline looking for bullpen help, and they’ve found it in a hurry.
After already landing JoJo Romero and Dustin May from the St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee is now set to add another arm in Antonio Senzatela, according to Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal first reported the Brewers were “working” to land the Colorado Rockies right-hander, and Hogg later wrote, “Brewers are acquiring Antonio Senzatela, per source,”
Senzatela gives Milwaukee another useful late-game option, and his numbers this season explain why the Brewers wanted in. The 31-year-old has pitched in 34 games for Colorado and owns a 3.61 ERA with a 46-to-17 strikeout-to-walk ratio over 52 1/3 innings.
He’s already at 1.1 wins above replacement this year, which is a strong mark for a reliever. It’s also his best season in that category since 2021, when he posted 1.9 WAR as a starter.
The underlying numbers are encouraging, too. Senzatela is in the 87th percentile in fastball velocity and the 78th percentile in barrel rate.
For Milwaukee, the appeal is obvious. The club already owns the fifth-best bullpen ERA in baseball at 3.64, and now it’s layering in Romero as a left-handed high-leverage piece and Senzatela as a right-handed one. May, meanwhile, gives the rotation another boost.
It hasn’t been a fireworks-show deadline for the Brewers, but it has been a productive one. They’ve strengthened the parts of the roster that needed help, and they’ve done it without taking their foot off the gas. If they can still find a bat before the deadline passes, that would round things out even more.
The Dodgers remain the favorites in the league after landing Tarik Skubal, but Milwaukee has closed some ground. There’s still time left, and now the question is whether the Brewers can squeeze one more deal through before the buzzer.
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