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Dallas Keuchel believes he still has a lot to offer major league teams.

The Milwaukee Brewers are hopeful that the 2015 AL Cy Young Award winner can help their injury-plagued pitching staff now that he’s returned to the major leagues. They paid cash to the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday to acquire Keuchel, who had spent the entire season in the minors.

“I’ve worked through some injuries, kind of worked through some stuff—poor performance, health stuff,” the 36-year-old left-hander said Tuesday night. “But I knew deep down I still had a couple of years left.”

Keuchel is 7-4 with a 3.93 ERA in 13 starts for the Mariners’ Triple-A affiliate in Tacoma this season. Keuchel last pitched in the majors for the Minnesota Twins in 2023, going 2-1 with a 5.97 ERA in ten appearances.

“The fact that he still wants to play, the fact that he still wants to do it after all he’s accomplished, I think that sends a message right there,” Pat Murphy, the brewery’s manager, said. “He’s a ballplayer.”

Keuchel has a 103-92 record and a 4.02 ERA in his major league career, which includes two All-Star appearances in 2015 and 2017. In 2015, he won the Cy Young Award after going 20-8 with a 2.43 ERA for the Houston Astros.

However, he has slowed down significantly in recent years as he struggles to stay on various clubs. In 2022, he went 2-9 with a 9.20 ERA for three different teams before finishing the season with the Twins.

“It kind of makes you take a step back and wonder if you still want to do it or if you still can do it, but the whole time I felt like the love of the game and my desire to win and compete is still there,” Keuchel told ESPN.

Keuchel has been particularly sharp recently. Over his past three Tacoma appearances, Keuchel has allowed only two runs — one earned — in 17 innings.

“My stuff is as crisp as it’s been in a long time,” he told me.

The Brewers needed to add some starting pitching depth after their pitching staff suffered many ailments. Milwaukee leads the NL Central despite receiving only 375 1/3 total innings from its starting pitchers through Monday, ranking next-to-last in the majors behind only San Francisco’s 371 2/3 innings.

Milwaukee transferred 2021 NL Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burnes to the Baltimore Orioles before the season, knowing that two-time All-Star Brandon Woodruff would not pitch in 2024 due to offseason shoulder surgery.

Wade Miley and Robert Gasser underwent Tommy John surgery and will miss the remainder of the season. Joe Ross (lower back), Jakob Junis (right shoulder), DL Hall (left knee), Taylor Clarke (toe), JB Bukauskas (right lat), and two-time All-Star closer Devin Williams are among the other Brewers pitchers out with injuries.

Hoby Milner, a left-handed reliever by trade, began Milwaukee’s 3-1 victory over the Texas Rangers on Tuesday as an opener, becoming the 13th different Brewers pitcher to start this season. The Miami Marlins have the highest total of any big league franchise.

In other moves. On Tuesday, the Brewers placed Gasser on the 60-day disabled list, chose right-hander Joel Kuhnel from Triple-A Nashville, and optioned Carlos Rodriguez to Nashville.