Guerra draws interest; continues amazing ’16

MILWAUKEE — It’s worth mentioning every time Junior Guerra takes the mound that two years ago he was pitching in Italy, of all places. Guerra was still in exile then, fighting back toward organized baseball from a PED suspension years earlier, and learning to hone the pitch that lifted him to the big leagues. On Friday, he was a 31-year-old rookie at Miller Park, where the seats behind home plate were dotted with scouts eyeing one of the league’s most fascinating trade chips.

Guerra gave them a show, flirting with a “Maddux” — a complete game shutout on fewer than 100 pitches — before settling for 8 2/3 innings and a victory in the Brewers’ 3-1 win over the Pirates. There’s a chance it was Guerra’s final start in a Brewers uniform. The non-waiver Trade Deadline is Monday afternoon, and Guerra is among a crowd of Brewers players drawing interest.

“It truly hasn’t gone through my head,” Guerra said. “It is baseball, it is a business, and it’s part of it. You can’t really control this, so you just kind of let God decide whatever happens next.”

His faith and his split-fingered fastball have lifted Guerra to heights no one envisioned, not even Brewers general manager David Stearns, who claimed Guerra off waivers from the White Sox in October. It was Stearns’ first roster move in his first week formally on the job.

Guerra briefly competed for a bullpen job in Spring Training …

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