{"id":35172,"date":"2022-08-04T10:08:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/brewers-designate-pitcher-dinelson-lamet-for-assignment-after-acquiring-him-in-josh-hader-trade\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T10:08:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:08:45","slug":"brewers-designate-pitcher-dinelson-lamet-for-assignment-after-acquiring-him-in-josh-hader-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/brewers-designate-pitcher-dinelson-lamet-for-assignment-after-acquiring-him-in-josh-hader-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers designate pitcher Dinelson Lamet for assignment after acquiring him in Josh Hader trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>PITTSBURGH \u2013 Forty-eight hours after announcing the acquisition of pitcher Dinelson Lamet from the San Diego Padres in the Josh Hader trade, the Milwaukee Brewers designated him for assignment in a flurry of roster moves Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDinelson has a good arm and was included in the trade to help balance out the deal,\u201d Brewers president of baseball operations David Stearns said.  \u201cAs subsequent transactions played out, the roster fit became a little tougher.  We are hopeful we will be able to keep him in our system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lamet finished fourth in Cy Young Award voting in 2020 but has battled injuries and shaky performance since, pitching to a 5.46 earned run average over 59 \u2153 innings over the last two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>By designating Lamet, 30, for assignment, any other team can claim him and add him to their 40-man roster.  If he clears waivers, he may be outrighted by the Brewers to a minor-league roster or released.<\/p>\n<p>While there was no guarantee he would perform at the level the Brewers needed, having allowed 12 earned runs over his last seven innings, the team had spoken in recent days of their belief in the ability for him to be a key piece of the bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was important to us to feel like we were stabilizing our bullpen, understanding how big a piece Josh is to that and has been,\u201d Stearns said Monday about Lamet and Taylor Rogers, the other big-league reliever sent to Milwaukee in the trade.  \u201cSo to be able to bring back two major-league pieces that fit into that group, I think it&#8217;s helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\" style=\"max-height: 640px\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader\" style=\"padding-bottom:67%;\"><noscript><img alt=\"San Diego Padres starting pitcher Dinelson Lamet works against a Pittsburgh Pirates batter during the first inning of a baseball game Tuesday, May 4, 2021, in San Diego.  (AP Photo\/Gregory Bull)\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/3xp1cPHW1y7zSAzXK39a3Q--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MA--\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/uu\/api\/res\/1.2\/c0MsGMz0IZrpPe8q.rQBzg--~B\/aD0xNTM5O3c9MjMwODthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/milwaukee-journal-sentinel\/15b904958c536ec03f141acedc5e615c\" class=\"caas-img\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\">San Diego Padres starting pitcher Dinelson Lamet works against a Pittsburgh Pirates batter during the first inning of a baseball game Tuesday, May 4, 2021, in San Diego.  (AP Photo\/Gregory Bull)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Said Brewers manager Craig Counsell on Tuesday: \u201cThis is a guy that&#8217;s been elite in this league.  He&#8217;s gone through a lot of injuries and he&#8217;s gone through some struggles.  You&#8217;re taking a shot at trying to help him a little bit and getting him back there.  But I think you ask any hitter and anybody that&#8217;s been on the sidelines watching him pitch when he has been good, and he it&#8217;s the best slider in baseball when he was good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve got to work to get there, but obviously there&#8217;s a lot of talent there and we are acquiring a player with a lot of talents and kind of see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"link caas-button collapse-button\" aria-label=\"\" title=\"\" data-ylk=\"elm:readmore;slk:Story continues\">Story continues<\/button><\/p>\n<p>It was on the surface a head-scratching move.  Let&#8217;s attempt to break down why the Brewers did so as best as possible.<\/p>\n<h2>Why Brewers decided to designate Lamet for assignment<\/h2>\n<p>Reading between the lines on what Stearns has said publicly \u2013 Lamet was included in the deal to \u201cbalance\u201d it out \u2013 he was likely included from a salary perspective and when the Brewers were faced with a roster crunch, they decided he was the last arm in the bullpen.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the deal was contingent on the Brewers taking back the remaining money left on Lamet&#8217;s $4.78 million salary or simply sending cash along with Hader as the Padres attempted to stay under the luxury tax remains unclear.  But what is evident is that the framework of the deal without Lamet \u2013 Hader for Taylor Rogers, Esteury Ruiz and Robert Gasser \u2013 was agreeable to the Brewers to the point where they were comfortable taking on Lamet&#8217;s salary.<\/p>\n<p>When the Brewers acquired reliever Matt Bush late Monday night and then targeted Wednesday for pitcher Freddy Peralta&#8217;s return, they had to clear two active roster spots and those players had to be pitchers with the team at the 13-pitcher limit.  Peter Strzelecki, a reliever with minor-league options, was one spot.<\/p>\n<p>Lamet very recently cleared five years of service time and thus could refuse any minor-league assignment.  Had he been under that threshold of service time, Milwaukee simply would have optioned him.  Instead, he cleared five years during a brief late-July stint with the Padres after Mackenzie Gore got injured, and the Brewers only options were then to either DFA a pitcher or place one on the injured list.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look, we had a difficult choice today,&#8221; Counsell said Wednesday.  &#8220;We have 13 roster spots for pitchers. That made the choice difficult. It ended up being Lamet. We chose to go in another direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By designating him for assignment two days after acquiring him, it can be reasonably leaned that the Brewers were not exactly committed to him as a future piece of the team when they agreed to the trade, to say the least;  teams simply don&#8217;t cut ties with players two days after acquiring them for a four-time all-star if the opposite is true.<\/p>\n<p>Had the Brewers sent cash along with Hader instead of absorbing Lamet and his contract, the end result \u2014 save for a scenario where Lamet remains in the organization and regains his old form \u2014 would have been the same but without the perplexing optics.  But as evidenced by the events of the days leading up to the trade deadline, optics are not the top priority for the Brewers front office, whether that&#8217;s for better or worse.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s reasonable to question why the Brewers would cut a pitcher with the upside of Lamet or why their brass would speak so highly of his potential if this was a possibility all along.  That comes down to one&#8217;s evaluation of Lamet and how to equate his past performance and potential with recent struggles.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, too, Milwaukee could have pushed harder to get a piece they would be more willing to keep on the roster, such as relievers Luis Garcia or Tim Hill, if the Padres were adamant about equalizing salaries.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, the result is Lamet may become the shortest-tenured of Brewers but the one associated with one of the most confusing, complicated transactions in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our subscribers make this reporting possible.  Please consider supporting local journalism by subscribing to the Journal Sentinel at jsonline.com\/deal. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD THE APP: Get the latest news, sports and more<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Brewers designate Dinelson Lamet for assignment two days after trade<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH \u2013 Forty-eight hours after announcing the acquisition of pitcher Dinelson Lamet from the San Diego Padres in the Josh Hader trade, the Milwaukee Brewers designated him for assignment in a flurry of roster moves Wednesday afternoon. \u201cDinelson has a good arm and was included in the trade to help balance out the deal,\u201d Brewers &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/brewers-designate-pitcher-dinelson-lamet-for-assignment-after-acquiring-him-in-josh-hader-trade\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brewers designate pitcher Dinelson Lamet for assignment after acquiring him in Josh Hader trade<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34557,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/brewers-designate-dinelson-lamet-pedro-severino-for-assignment\/","url_meta":{"origin":35172,"position":0},"title":"Brewers Designate Dinelson Lamet, Pedro Severino For Assignment","date":"August 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Brewers have announced to reporters, including Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a series of roster moves prior to today's game. righty Freddy Peralta has been reinstated from the 60-day injured list, while deadline acquisition Matt Bush has been added to the roster. infielder Keston Hiura was also\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":36582,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rockies-claim-dinelson-lamet-designate-ashton-goudeau\/","url_meta":{"origin":35172,"position":1},"title":"Rockies Claim Dinelson Lamet, Designate Ashton Goudeau","date":"August 5, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"1:00pm: The Rockies announced the claim of Lamet, adding that right-hander Ashton Goudeau has been designated for assignment in order to create roster space. 12:46pm: The Rockies have claimed right-hander Dinelson Lamet off waivers from the Brewers, Adam McCalvy of MLB.com reports (twitter link). 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