CHICAGO \u2014 The Milwaukee Brewers added Canadian catcher Bo Naylor and reliever JoJo Romero to their active roster on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Naylor, from Mississauga, Ont., was recalled from Triple-A Nashville. Romero was reinstated from the 15-day injured list after recovering from an appendectomy.<\/p>\n
Active MLB rosters expanded from 26 to 28 players on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee acquired Naylor and Romero in a pair of trade-deadline deals. Naylor came over in a trade with Cleveland, and Romero was acquired in a swap with St. Louis.<\/p>\n
Naylor’s promotion puts a third catcher on the roster for the NL Central leaders, joining William Contreras and Gary S\u00e1nchez.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gives us a chance to use Gary as a (designated hitter) more,\u201d Brewers manager Pat Murphy said before Tuesday’s game against the Chicago Cubs. \u201cAnd it gives \u2026 a left-handed bat to the offensive mix. He\u2019s got a lot of major league experience. He has to learn our pitchers and he\u2019s really open to it. Seems like just a tremendous, tremendous kid.\u201d<\/p>\n
Naylor, 26, has struggled offensively the past three seasons. He hit .143 with two homers in 28 games with the Guardians before he was optioned to triple-A Columbus on May 9.<\/p>\n
The Brewers got Romero and right-hander Dustin May from St. Louis for two minor league outfielders on Aug. 3.<\/p>\n
Romero, who turns 30 on Sept. 9, hasn’t pitched in a big league game since July 12. The left-hander is 1-3 with a 3.35 ERA in 44 appearances this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 The Milwaukee Brewers added Canadian catcher Bo Naylor and reliever JoJo Romero to their active roster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-880065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880065","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=880065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}