{"id":570260,"date":"2026-02-13T13:52:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/570260\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:52:35","slug":"arizona-diamondbacks-bringing-back-paul-sewald-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/570260\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Diamondbacks bringing back Paul Sewald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Well, this is certainly something. Former D-backs\u2019 closer Paul Sewald, an integral part of the bullpen which reached the 2023 World Series, is apparently coming back to the team. Steve Gilbert was the first to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SteveGilbertMLB\/status\/2022005865189179771\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:report the deal;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">report the deal<\/a>, confirming it is a major-league contract, rather than a minor-league one with an invite to spring training. Nick Piecoro <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nickpiecoro\/status\/2022005847594086876\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:subsequently added;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">subsequently added<\/a> that it\u2019s a one-year deal at a cost of $1.5 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sewald\u2019s first stint with the Diamondbacks began at the trade deadline in 2023, when he came over from the Seattle Mariners. He picked up thirteen saves with a 3.57 ERA down the stretch in Arizona, but really came into his own during the post-season. On the way to the National League pennant, he pitched eight scoreless innings and notched six saves, with a 11:1 K:BB ratio. Everything went pear-shaped (to put it mildly) in the World Series against Texas, and that was a portent of things to come. For in 2024, his ERA was a mediocre 4.31, and he lost the closer\u2019s job at the beginning of August.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Last year, he split time between Cleveland and Detroit, though the results were not brilliant with either team. Overall he had a 4.58 ERA across 22 games, spending most of the year on the injured list with a strained shoulder. He earned $6 million that year: there was an option for 2026, but at $10 million was an easy decline. He was therefore able to return to Arizona on a considerably cheaper deal. I will make no comment more predictive about his performance than \u201cWe\u2019ll see\u2026\u201d But I would be quite surprised if he gets any significant high-leverage situations out of the gate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, this is certainly something. Former D-backs\u2019 closer Paul Sewald, an integral part of the bullpen which reached&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,135,147,38,4,26621,372,25,645,65,73847,1567],"class_list":{"0":"post-570260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-detroit","14":"tag-diamondbacks","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-national-league-pennant","17":"tag-paul-sewald","18":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","19":"tag-phoenix","20":"tag-seattle-mariners","21":"tag-steve-gilbert","22":"tag-texas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116063655968172975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}