Corbin Burnes will take Haugen Saturday and is still trying to win his first victory since he signed a six -year, $ 210 million free agent agreement with Arizona Diamondbacks last winter.
It will be his home debut in Phoenix and comes against Milwaukee Brewers, with whom he spent the first six seasons of his career, won the National League Cy Young Award and published three all-Star seasons.
The breweries traded Burnes to Baltimore Orioles before the 2024 season with the right hand on the CUSP of Free Agency.
He told Baltimore reporters earlier this week when Diamondbacks played in the city that Arizona was most meaningful to him in free agency. He and his family live in Scottsdale, Ariz.
“I just don’t think we necessarily matched the years it would take to get a dollar amount for me to stay there,” Burnes said of Baltimore’s offer.
“Now I can’t guarantee that I would have gone there, this offer had not come. Just kind of one of the things that it was lined up, we lived here. If these guys (Diamondbacks) would be serious and have a fair offer, then that was where we would be. So it is difficult to play what-about game.
On Saturday, Burnes (0-1, 5.79) is scheduled to go towards the colleague right hand Chad Patrick (1-0, 2.45).
Brewers won the series’ opener 7-0 on Friday when Jose Quintana and two shippers held Diamondbacks to four hits. Milwaukee, swept by the New York Yankees in its season-opening four-game series, will seek its fourth series in a row.
Quintana signed with the breweries on March 5. The game Friday was the first look of the season for the veteran.
“I have seen that show a bunch, and this is the first time I’ve ever been happy about it,” said Milwauke-Manager Pat Murphy about Quintana, who was 9-7 with a 2.98 era in 23 career appearance (22 starts) against the breweries before signing the team.
Diamondback’s manager Torey Lovullo credited Quintana but also said that his team did not perform well.
“It wasn’t a good day today,” he said. “We had to beat in all areas.”
The manager continued: “I think we came out a little too hungry, tried to do too much damage and not get into it to give and take, cat-and-mouse games with a really good starting jug. He knows how to beat.”
Burnes has struggled with his command in his two previous starts.
He made a decision without a decision in a 7-5 victory against Yankees on April 1 and was the record button in a 5-4 loss at Washington Nationals on Sunday. He has 11 strikes and seven walks in 9 1/3 rounds, a strike-to-walk ratio of 1.57, well below his career average of 4.07 and 6.88 in his Cy Young season 2021.
That year he beat 234 strokes and went 34.
Burnes met the breweries once, a 6-4 victory on April 14 last year with Orioles when he gave up six hits and three runs (two earned) in five rounds. He did not make a decision in Baltimore’s victory 6-4.
Patrick, a beginner, has 10 strikes in 11 rounds over three performances and has never met Arizona. He entered the starting rotation due to damage to Aaron Civale and Nestor Cortes.
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