Veteran left-hander Dallas Keuchel cleared waivers and elected free company after being designated for project by the Brewers, Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel studies. He’s now free to signal with any membership.
Keuchel, 36, signed a minor league cope with the Mariners over the winter however was acquired by Milwaukee for money final month. He’d gotten out to a pleasant begin with the Mariners’ Triple-A affiliate in Tacoma (71 innings, 3.93 ERA, 15.6% strikeout charge, 7.6% stroll charge, 59.5% grounder charge), and a Brewers membership in dire want of rotation innings turned to the previous Cy Younger winner to assist patch their injury-ravaged employees. Keuchel had two robust begins and two stable ones for the Brew Crew, pitching a complete of 16 2/3 innings with an 11-to-8 Okay/BB ratio and 52.5% ground-ball charge earlier than being designated.
Keuchel had an identical however lengthier stint as a depth starter with the Twins down the stretch in 2023, showing in 10 video games (six of them begins) and posting a 5.97 ERA in 37 2/3 frames. As with Milwaukee, he had his share of stable appearances within the Twin Cities however was additionally hit fairly laborious on a number of events.
It’s been years since Keuchel, the 2015 American League Cy Younger winner, was a stable member of an enormous league rotation. He made 11 begins and tossed 63 1/3 innings of glowing 1.99 ERA ball with the White Sox within the shortened 2020 season, however the ultimate two seasons of his three-year, $55.5MM deal in Chicago was a catastrophe. Relationship again to 2021, Keuchel has pitched to a grisly 6.24 ERA in 277 innings — a far cry from the 1126 innings of three.25 ERA ball he compiled in his 2014-20 peak.
Tough as Keuchel’s current outcomes have been, the veteran southpaw has pitched fairly properly in Triple-A over the previous few seasons. This 12 months’s 88.1 mph common velocity on his sinker clearly sits properly beneath the league common however can also be his greatest mark since a robust 2019 season with the Braves, when he averaged 88.3 mph. Keuchel labored with Driveline Baseball in the course of the early a part of the ’23 season to revive a few of his dwindling velocity and parlayed that into his cope with the Twins. He’s now added a bit extra life to the sinker and nonetheless appeared sharp in two of his 4 Milwaukee appearances. A membership in want of some rotation depth figures to scoop him up on a minor league pact within the coming weeks.
