The Arizona Diamondbacks and Seattle Mariners hold agreed to a replace for closer Paul Sewald, the teams announced Monday. The Mariners will receive utility participant Josh Rojas, outfielder Dominic Canzone, and infielder Ryan Bliss in return.
Sewald, 33, has seemed in 45 games this season and has compiled a 2.93 ERA (139 ERA+) and a 4.29 strikeout-to-stroll ratio. These marks are per the numbers he accrued over a three-year fling with the Mariners (2.88 ERA) that noticed him flip into a exact excessive-leverage reliever. Sewald, who coincidentally recorded two saves towards the Diamondbacks over the weekend, will qualify free of price company after the 2024 season.
The Diamondbacks enter Monday with the eighth-most realistic likely bullpen ERA within the majors. Sewald must always support give a boost to that down the stretch.
The Mariners, within the meantime, hold now traded away their closer at two of the closing three replace closing dates; Kendall Graveman was as soon as shipped to the Astros in July 2021.
Rojas, 29, has doubtlessly the most huge-league experience of the players going to Seattle. In parts of five seasons, he’s hit .252/.330/.367 (92 OPS+) whereas seeing most of his action at 2d and third snide. He’s also seemed within the outfield. Rojas excellent fair recently returned from a demotion to the minor leagues. He may well presumably also slot appropriate onto the Mariners’ 26-participant roster, looking out on their plans.
Canzone, 26 come mid-August, has seemed in 15 huge-league contests this season. He’s batted .237/.293/.368 (82 OPS+) with a home fling. Canzone is an undersized outfielder with gruesome energy. He too must always ingredient into the massive-league equation for the Mariners over the relaxation of the season.
Bliss, 23, was as soon as a 2d-spherical pick in 2021 by Auburn. He’s spoil up this season between the upper minors, hitting .332/.391/.556 with 13 home runs and 35 stolen bases. (Most of that damage got here in Double-A.) Bliss may well presumably also conceivably get his huge-league debut later this season, though it appears more seemingly that he’ll advance in some unspecified time in the future subsequent year.