{"id":741937,"date":"2026-06-17T08:12:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741937\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T08:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:12:41","slug":"phillies-notes-keller-schwarber-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741937\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Notes: Keller, Schwarber – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Phillies placed\u00a0Brad Keller<\/a> on the 15-day injured list, retroactive to June 14, before tonight\u2019s win over Miami. Keller is dealing with forearm tendinitis.\u00a0Max Lazar<\/a> came up from Triple-A Lehigh Valley and tossed a scoreless ninth to wrap up an 8-2 victory.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia didn\u2019t provide a timeline on Keller\u2019s return. Signed to a two-year, $22MM free agent deal, Keller has been Philly\u2019s top setup arm. He leads the team with 13 holds and has entered in the second-highest leverage situations on average (after closer\u00a0Jhoan Duran<\/a>). Keller has mostly been effective, holding all but one lead while adding a trio of saves.<\/p>\n

It has still been a step back from the righty\u2019s fantastic 2025 season with the Cubs. Keller\u2019s earned run average has climbed more than two runs and sits at 4.15 through 30 1\/3 innings. His strikeout rate has dipped three percentage points and the ground-balls have plummeted. There hasn\u2019t been any huge drop-off in his stuff, but he\u2019s working from behind in counts a little more often and opponents have teed off on his four-seam fastball.<\/p>\n

Keller is coming off probably his worst outing of the season. He allowed five baserunners and three runs against Milwaukee over the weekend, nearly squandering a 9-5 lead in the process. His previous four outings had been scoreless, and he\u2019d recorded a hold in nine straight appearances up to that one. (He wasn\u2019t eligible for a hold in that outing because he entered with a four-run lead.)<\/p>\n

Orion Kerkering<\/a> projects as Philadelphia\u2019s top setup option as long as Keller is sidelined.\u00a0Jonathan Bowlan<\/a> could find himself in more key situations as well. The Phils are a little more questionable from the left side. Neither Jos\u00e9 Alvarado<\/a> nor\u00a0Tanner Banks<\/a> has gotten great results this year.\u00a0Tim Mayza<\/a> has pitched well but has traditionally been a situational ground-ball lefty.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the roster, Kyle Schwarber<\/a> got the start at first base this evening. It was only the tenth such start of Schwarber\u2019s MLB career and his first in a Philadelphia uniform, as the previous nine had all come with the 2021 Red Sox. The Marlins unsuccessfully tried to bunt in that direction a couple times and wound up not testing him all game, as they didn\u2019t hit any balls to first base.<\/p>\n

Interim manager Don Mattingly said postgame that the Phillies could get Schwarber sporadic first base work throughout the season (link via Paul Casella of MLB.com<\/a>). It\u2019s certainly not going to be a regular occurrence but could occasionally allow the Phillies to get\u00a0Bryce Harper<\/a> a half-rest day as the designated hitter, as he did tonight. Harper has started all 73 games this year \u2014 68 at first and five as the DH. Schwarber got the day off for two of those previous starts while drawing into left field twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phillies placed\u00a0Brad Keller on the 15-day injured list, retroactive to June 14, before tonight\u2019s win over Miami.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,116271,5152,591,85],"class_list":["post-741937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brad-keller","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}