4 trade targets from the Milwaukee Brewers for the Colorado Rockies

Milwaukee Brewers reliever Brent Suter could also be a fit for the Colorado Rockies

Milwaukee Brewers reliever Brent Suter has had some health issues in his career but for the last two years, he has been healthier after he missed the last two months of 2018 and nearly all of 2019 due to Tommy John surgery. He could provide the Colorado Rockies with a muchn-needed veteran left-handed reliever.

Suter, 31, was one of Milwaukee’s best relievers in 2021 as he appeared in 61 games (one start) and he had a 3.07 ERA (139 ERA+). In addition, he had a FIP of 3.91, a WHIP of 1.309, and he averaged 2.9 walks and 8.5 strikeouts per nine innings.

In 2020, he made 16 appearances (four starts) and he had a 3.13 ERA (146 ERA+) with a 3.00 FIP, a WHIP of 1.105, and an average of just 1.4 walks and 10.8 strikeouts per nine innings.

Suter could be an asset for the Rockies bullpen as since 2020, Suter’s groundball rate is around 52 percent. In 2021, his 51.9 percent groundball rate was 28th-highest among the 138 relievers with at least 50 innings pitched. That would be, by far, the highest rate in the Rockies bullpen.

Suter, who is the longest-tenured MLB player to come out of Harvard University in more than a century, is entering his second season of arbitration so, depending on how the new CBA unfolds, the Rockies could have one or two years of control with Suter.