Jordan Romano just froze Freddie Freeman with a filthy slider, and it capped his second straight save since the Colorado Rockies brought him back to the majors.
Not long ago, the former Toronto Blue Jays closer looked like a pitcher whose career might be running out of runway.
His season numbers still reflect that rough stretch. Romano is carrying a 7.10 ERA and a 1.97 WHIP across 15 appearances, numbers that explain exactly why he'd been out of the league.
But three appearances into this Rockies tenure, none of that history matters much anymore.
He's shut the door in back-to-back outings, and freezing a hitter like Freeman with a slider says everything about where his stuff is right now.
Freeman doesn't miss pitches like that unless the pitch is legitimately elite, and Romano just delivered exactly that in a save situation.
Toronto fans remember Romano fondly from his days closing games at Rogers Centre, before injuries and inconsistency pushed him out of a job that once felt automatic.
Why fantasy managers should be paying attention now
The Rockies signed him for just 2 million dollars, the kind of low-cost bet that only pays off if a pitcher actually rediscovers his stuff.
Three appearances is still a tiny sample against a full season of struggle, and nobody should pretend this settles anything permanently.
But a closer finding his slider again, against hitters like Freeman, is exactly the kind of signal that gets noticed around the league fast.
It's a bit like an old muscle car finally starting up again after sitting untouched for years. The engine either turns over or it doesn't, and right now his clearly does.
Colorado sits at 39-58, last in the National League West, so saves matter more for Romano's own future than for the standings at this point.
Does this stretch mean Romano's genuinely back, or is Freeman's frozen bat just one great pitch in an otherwise complicated comeback story?
Do you believe Jordan Romano has genuinely turned his career back around with the Rockies?
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