CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 The Cleveland Guardians acquired outfielder Blake Perkins and right-handed pitcher Craig Yoho from the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday for catcher Bo Naylor and right-hander Codi Heuer.<\/p>\n
Naylor and Heuer have been assigned to the Brewers ’40-man roster and to Triple-A Nashville. Guardians general manager Chris Antonetti said before Saturday night’s game against Arizona that Perkins would start in Triple-A Columbus, while Yoho would report to Cleveland in the next couple days.<\/p>\n
The 26-year old Naylor has spent his entire career in Cleveland, but has struggled offensively the past three seasons. He was sent down to Triple-A Columbus after the Guardians acquired Patrick Bailey from San Francisco and batted .225 with seven home runs in 45 games for Columbus.<\/p>\n
\u201cI continue to believe that he is going to be a good major-league player, but we weren\u2019t able to help him be as consistent offensively as we think he can be,” Antonetti said. “And we scratched our heads a lot trying to figure out how do we do that? How do we support Bo better? But in the end, we just couldn\u2019t help him unlock that consistency.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brewers manager Pat Murphy said Naylor provides security with Triple-A catcher Jeferson Quero nursing a biceps injury after undergoing shoulder surgery in 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Depth) is important when you have a catcher that plays as hard as (starter) William (Contreras) plays and is in there virtually every day,\u201d Murphy said.<\/p>\n
Heuer, 30, was in his first season with Cleveland and split time between the major league club and Triple-A. He was 0-1 with a 4.66 ERA in eight appearances out of the bullpen.<\/p>\n
The 26-year old Yoho has a career 1.10 minor league ERA. He was 2-0 with a 3.15 ERA in three stints with the Brewers this season.<\/p>\n
Perkins, 29, played 121 games and was a Gold Glove finalist two years ago but has been shuttling between Milwaukee and Nashville this season. He had a .157 batting average in 55 games with the Brewers this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was really happy for him,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cI was happy that hopefully he gets a better shot than he got here this year. He was great for us. You think about ’24, ’25, he was a huge part of that thing. … I know there’s at least one walk-off hit and one walk-off thrown out at the plate. I just love Perk.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 The Cleveland Guardians acquired outfielder Blake Perkins and right-handed pitcher Craig Yoho from the Milwaukee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,9114,867,136,18762,18652,3924,94841,843,59,4280,4,9501,6077,7661,9496,83365,82744],"class_list":["post-767680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-baseball","tag-blake-perkins","tag-bo-naylor","tag-brewers","tag-chris-antonetti","tag-codi-heuer","tag-craig-yoho","tag-guardians-brewers-trade-naylor-perkins","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mlb","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-pat-murphy","tag-patrick-bailey","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40806-ap-ohio-sports-only","tag-product-40822-ap-wisconsin-sports-only"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117023861877424182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767680","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=767680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}