{"id":34279,"date":"2025-07-30T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/34279\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:19:08","slug":"padres-interested-in-jojo-romero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/34279\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres Interested In JoJo Romero"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cardinals\u2019 bullpen should look quite a bit different in 36 hours than it does now. Closer\u00a0Ryan Helsley<\/a> is one of the most coveted available relievers and is very likely to move. Phil Maton<\/a> and\u00a0Steven Matz<\/a> are impending free agents who should be traded as well. There hasn\u2019t been as much public attention on southpaw\u00a0JoJo Romero<\/a>, but he\u2019s another trade candidate.<\/p>\n

Katie Woo of The Athletic<\/a> reports that the Padres are among the teams to show interest in Romero. St. Louis has presumably received interest from a few clubs on the 28-year-old lefty, who carries a 2.12 ERA across 34 innings. Romero has fanned 24% of batters faced with a 52.9% ground-ball rate. He has collected 16 holds without blowing a lead all year, and he\u2019s coming up on three months of quiet excellence.<\/p>\n

Romero had a rocky April, allowing eight runs (seven earned) with seven walks and strikeouts apiece in 10 1\/3 innings. He has allowed just four runs, one earned, since that point. Romero owns a 0.38 ERA with a 28.1% strikeout rate while keeping opposing hitters to a .200\/.277\/.271 slash line over his past 27 appearances. While he\u2019s obviously not going to maintain that level of dominance, he has fired 93 innings of 2.90 ERA ball while picking up 46 holds over the past season and a half. He has gotten plus ground-ball marks with solid swing-and-miss rates while sitting around 94 MPH on his fastball.<\/p>\n

Unlike the trio of more frequently mentioned rentals in the St. Louis bullpen, Romero is under club control for another season. He\u2019s playing on a $2.26MM salary this year and should land in the $4-5MM range for his final arbitration campaign. The Cardinals should nevertheless look to move him to a clearer contender this summer, especially if they lower their already diminished playoff odds by trading Helsley and Maton.<\/p>\n

San Diego has a trio of left-handers in the bullpen. Adrian Morejon<\/a> is among the best in baseball. Romero would be a more reliable second option than\u00a0Wandy Peralta<\/a> or\u00a0Yuki Matsui<\/a>. Adding to the bullpen could be viewed as a luxury buy for a team with clearer holes in left field and throughout the bench. President of baseball operations A.J. Preller has left the door open to further adding to an already excellent relief group. It\u2019s also possible they could acquire a leverage reliever while dealing away one of their current late-inning arms (most likely closer\u00a0Robert Suarez<\/a>) for outfield or rotation help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cardinals\u2019 bullpen should look quite a bit different in 36 hours than it does now. Closer\u00a0Ryan Helsley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,18420,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-34279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-jojo-romero","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}