Milwaukee Brewers regular season baseball is right around the corner. Regardless of how the Opening Day roster looks, one player that is not eligible to play is reliever Abner Uribe. He still has to serve a four game suspension due to his involvement in a benches clearing altercation last year.
Being down a reliever for four games is a big concern for any team, so the Brew Crew is going to be strategic about when they place Uribe on the 26-man active roster. Recently, Pat Murphy revealed two windows where this might occur.
The Milwaukee Brewers have identified two windows for Abner Uribe to serve his four game suspension
Rather than break the suspension up, as in have Uribe on the roster for a pair of games, option him down to the minor leagues, and then call him back up later on to serve the final games of his suspension, Milwaukee wants to use off days to complete the suspension in one swoop. According to David Gasper of Athlon Sports, the start of the season and end of April are two windows the team is looking at.
The Brewers face a tough decision on Abner Uribe, who still has to serve a four game suspension from a brawl last year. Uribe’s roster placement would leave the Brewers a man short in their bullpen for those games.
The first window they’re looking at is Opening Day and the first four games of the year, but if they choose not to put Uribe on the initial roster, the next window Pat Murphy has for Uribe is at the end of April when they face the Cardinals and White Sox.
-David Gasper of Athlon Sports
Both of these windows have off days that would be beneficial for the bullpen
Pending any games being cancelled/re-scheduled due to weather, the Brewers begin the 2025 season by playing on a Thursday, rest Friday, and then play nine consecutive games after that. Should Uribe be on the Opening Day roster, he would be eligible to pitch on April 1, which would be the Brewers second home game of the year.
If Milwaukee goes for the second window, which is at the end of April, the team would activate Uribe prior to the start of a three game weekend series against the St. Louis Cardinals, rest Monday, and then play the Chicago White Sox on a Tuesday. This would make Uribe eligible to return to return Wednesday, April 30.
It will be interesting to see how the Brewers handle Uribe’s suspension. They already have injuries in their starting rotation, so being down a man in the bullpen to begin the year would be less than ideal, but it would get Uribe back into games quicker.
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