How social media is reacting to Brewers trade for Carlos Santana from Pirates
The Milwaukee Brewers have a new veteran first baseman for their 2023 playoff push after acquiring 37-year-old Carlos Santana from the Pittsburgh Pirates as the trade deadline approaches.
The Brewers are sending 18-year-old Jhonny Severino to Pittsburgh.
With Rowdy Tellez injured for the foreseeable future and the team struggling most of the season to generate any power at the first base position, this was a major need. Santana has 290 career home runs with his career best coming in 2016 and 2019 when he hit 34 both seasons.
Here are some instant social media reactions from the Brewers' and Pirates' perspective. And yes, there were some Carlos Santana — the musician — jokes.
The NL Central leaders are picking up a huge power bat!
Carlos Santana has reportedly been traded to the Brewers. pic.twitter.com/Yh0qxtRefR— MLB Network (@MLBNetwork) July 27, 2023
Brewers first baseman in 2023:
.212/.272/.340
Since June 1:
.186/.233/.241— Curt Hogg (@CyrtHogg) July 27, 2023
Brewers get a bat. Looking forward to seeing him, Yelich, and Contreras do some damage https://t.co/NQF1H24vfu
— KrakenBrewWBadger (@KrakenBrew) July 27, 2023
🚨 The Brewers made a move to help the offense 🚨 https://t.co/G37GeyH82H
— Dominic Cotroneo (@Dom_Cotroneo) July 27, 2023
Brewers are going to the World Series.#ThisIsMyCrew https://t.co/fgafoEZq5C pic.twitter.com/RyqEvgnmaK
— Tito🤙🏽 (@ohhitstito) July 27, 2023
Milwaukee is a much much much more home run friendly park than PNC Park was. This gives Santana some interesting rest of season value 👀#FantasyBaseball https://t.co/5qFfEaWEal
— Blake Meyer (@Buhhlockaye) July 27, 2023
Big dog gonna eat in MKE (I’m praying) https://t.co/wxLNGIrgKb
— Teddy (Taylor’s Version) (@Teddy_Taylor27) July 27, 2023
Now he can do his little dance for us instead of against us. https://t.co/gWj8wks1oD
— Cooper L. Goede (@CooperGoede) July 27, 2023
Carlos Santana did this against the Brewers and now he’s a Brewer 😂 pic.twitter.com/ga8LnVKkCC
— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) July 27, 2023
We vibin, we finally got a decent 1B😤 pic.twitter.com/mkHqPRQutJ
— Tito🤙🏽 (@ohhitstito) July 27, 2023
I can't be the only @Brewers fan listening to Carlos Santana's greatest hits while searching for Carlos Santana highlight videos. #Smooth #ThisIsMyCrew #2023ChampionshipSeason https://t.co/D5MzKlxalD
— 1BRWRFN (@1BRWRFN) July 27, 2023
Key part of this trade is picking up a bat while not sacrificing anything on the Defensive side of the team. Love the move. https://t.co/p1lwnLfw21
— Jarod Hernandez (@JarodHernandez) July 27, 2023
In Matt Arnold we Trust! #ThisIsMyCrew https://t.co/tcoijiKEpj
— Wisconsin Sports (@Mike_Kirking) July 27, 2023
Hate this for the Pirates but love this for him so he can go to the playoffs hopefully https://t.co/rLzp67SDvg
— Megan Corcoran (@megan_corcoran_) July 27, 2023
Pirates raising their annual “We Suck” flag. https://t.co/amPi1yd65d
— SuckMeter (@SuckMeter) July 27, 2023
Years and years of mismanagement will keep the Pirates selling every trade deadline. https://t.co/JLpPzujr0w
— Kevin Accettulla (@kevinaccettulla) July 27, 2023
You have to think that the Pirates probably heavily scouted Severino before the Brewers signed him. It’s hard to get excited about lottery ticket trades, but I don’t mind this one. Santana wasn’t going to bring back a haul. This is fine. #LetsGoBucs https://t.co/OZAI7XJzAK
— Bucco Fever Podcast (@BuccoFeverPod) July 27, 2023
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Social media reacts to Brewers trade for Carlos Santana from Pirates
