Brewers Thoroughly Joel Payamps – Major League Baseball (MLB) Trade Rumors
Right-handed Joel Payamps The winemaker announced Thursday that in his recent DFA recently announced that it had passed an unclaimed waiver incident and had been assigned to Triple-A Nashville. Payamps have plenty of service hours to turn off direct tasks for free agents, but doing so requires a surrender of the 2.995mm guarantee this year. So he took the task in an overwhelming way and hoped to return to Milwaukee in a very short time.
Before this season, few people would predict that salary would be in this situation. The 31-year-old performed well in the 2022 season in 2022 and exploded with the winemakers in 2023-24. Milwaukee and William Contreras In the robbery of three trades Esteury Ruiz to A and Sean Murphy To the brave.
Contreras is the clear headlines there, but salary contributions in Milwaukee should not be overlooked. In his first two seasons as a winemaker, he threw 129 2/3 innings with 2.78 ERA clarity, 3-point shooting and 6.7% walking. The right-hander also scored 48 games in the process and saved nine games.
The 2025 season has always been a salary struggle. This problem has not been resolved. He threw 18 1/3 innings and made 17 runs (8.35 ERA) with 25 hits (3 home runs) and 6 walks and 16 strikeouts. His court choices have no velocity tilt or fundamental changes, but Payamps chase less, much smaller, and allow for more contact.
Any team can claim that controllable Payamps can be made in the 2026 season through arbitration, but doing so means bearing the remaining 1.98mm of guaranteed money. Most clubs guaranteed money through waivers this season is very small, as they tend to have only a small amount of financial flexibility on trade deadlines (relative to their typical offseason resources, anyway).
To reject his salary and get a minor league contract on a minimum basis, he certainly has a series of interested teams fighting for rights to achieve this trail. Instead, his salary pushed his waivers. He will now head to Nashville and hopes to get back on track. With such a waiver, passing the salary is the only way Milwaukee can send him to Nashville because he has no minor league options. If he can start to be more in line with his past level, he can come back at any time of the season.
Payamps will remain under the club’s control until at least 2026. If he spent less than 82 days on the major league roster but was selected for the Grand Slam before the end of the season, he would have lost five years of service and saw his free agent path back in a year. But if he isn’t enough to win another major league appearance, it’s a pointless thing, and that’s where he’s focusing on for the moment.
