Milwaukee Brewers have finally made a free agent move. The move they made was one that I’m not sure if people expected though. They added Josh Lindbloom, a former pitcher who dominated South Korea the last few years, on a three-year nine million dollar deal. Lindbloom will join the rotation and likely be considered one of the back-end starters in the rotation. It is a good add for Milwaukee as they try to reshape their roster after a crazy offseason thus far.

In a surprise to no one, Lindblom dominated the KBO. That happens relatively often with MLB-quality players. We saw it with Eric Thames. Miles Mikolas of the St. Louis Cardinals is another example. But what gets lost in that is sometimes, guys hit their full potential over there. They have almost a Bull Durham-like reawakening of being a baseball player after likely struggling in America. That part doesn’t get discussed enough. I’m not touting Lindbloom as this God. But I do want to call out he could be special based on that.

The numbers for Lindblom are staggering. He went 20-3, 2.50 ERA, 189 strikeouts in 194 innings. He won the MVP of the KBO last season. He had a 6.8 strikeout to walk ratio. Lindblom found himself in Korea by using the splitter successfully paired with his fastball. My assumption is the ball will change from last season, but remember Junior Guerra struggled with his splitter last season due to the baseball. The assumption is that Lindblom will be at the back end of the rotation. The work is still not done for Milwaukee though.

Right now, they’re still after another starting pitcher. The rotation looks like this in some order – Brandon Woodruff, Adrian Houser, Lindblom, Eric Lauer. Milwaukee hasn’t shown an interest in operating with big contracts yet this year. But if they were to do it, the starting pitcher market seems like the place to attack.

Good move by Stearns and company.

Charlie.