The Houston Astros finalized a trade to send right-hander Lance \u2060McCullers Jr., left-hander Colton Gordon and cash to the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday. The Astros received minor league outfielder Jadyn Fielder in return.<\/p>\n
McCullers, a two-time World Series winner and \u200bformer American League All-Star, has pitched only 39\u2153 \u200cinnings this season, posting a 2-3 \u200brecord with a 6.86 ERA in eight starts.<\/p>\n
He has been on the 15-day injured list since May 21 \u2060with right shoulder inflammation. The 32-year-old earns $17 million this season in \u2060the final campaign of his five-year, $85 million contract.<\/p>\n
McCullers is 53-40 with a 3.85 ERA \u200bin 154 career games (148 \u2060starts) with the Astros since 2015. He was an All-Star in 2017 and \u2060won World \u200bSeries titles in 2017 and 2022, but \u200bhe missed three entire seasons (2019, 2023 and 2024) due to injuries.<\/p>\n
Gordon, \u200b27, \u200chas surrendered 12 earned runs in four appearances in the majors this season, spanning 9\u2153 innings. He was 6-3 with a 3.69 ERA \u200cin 14 games (13 starts) with Triple-A Sugar Land.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old Fielder is the son of Prince Fielder and the grandson of Cecil Fielder. The latter two combined for \u200bnine \u200bAll-Star selections and 638 home runs in \u200b25 MLB seasons. Jadyn Fielder is hitting.233 (31-for-133) with Class-A \u2060Wilson in his first full professional season, and has three home runs and 23 RBIs across 45 games.<\/p>\n
The Brewers\u2019 starting rotation has been affected by \u200bseveral injuries recently. Kyle Harrison (8-2, 3.01) sits on the 15-day IL, while Brandon Woodruff (2-2, 2.98) recently went on the 60-day IL. Logan Henderson (3-1, 3.18) returned to active duty on July 9 after missing six weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Astros finalized a trade to send right-hander Lance \u2060McCullers Jr., left-hander Colton Gordon and cash to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,136,54,1484,843,59,4280,4],"class_list":["post-753186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-baseball","tag-brewers","tag-houston-astros","tag-lance-mccullers-jr","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116928911976264849","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753186","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=753186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}