​MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers had their sights set on acquiring a top-tier pitcher before the trade deadline — namely Tarik Skubal — but had to shift gears when the back-to-back AL Cy Young Award winner ended up with the Los Angeles Dodgers.Instead, the Brewers, who entered Monday tied with the Dodgers for the best record in the major leagues, settled for veteran starter Dustin May, who was acquired from the St. Louis Cardinals shortly before the deadline.Milwaukee also got left-handed reliever JoJo Romero in the deal. In exchange, the Brewers sent minor league outfielders Alexander Frías and Josiah Ragsdale to the Cardinals.The NL Central leaders bolstered their bullpen further by obtaining reliever Antonio Senzatela from the Colorado Rockies for left-hander Mark Manfredi, who has split time between Double-A Biloxi and Triple-A Nashville, and infielder Juan Martínez, who has played with the Rookie ACL Brewers and Class A Wilson this season.“The fans have every right to have any opinion they want about what we should or shouldn’t do,” Milwaukee manager Pat Murphy said before Monday night’s game against the Pittsburgh Pirates. “But nobody wants to win more than the guys in that (clubhouse).”Murphy called prospects in the Brewers’ highly touted minor league system the “lifeblood of an organization like ours.”“We’re all working in a framework that has to make sense, so it’s hard to make trades,” he said.General manager Matt Arnold said the Brewers “were in on a lot of things” as the deadline approached.“There’s certainly some things where you come up short, and you’ve just got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and try to do what you can to get the next thing,” Arnold said. “And ultimately, we were able to accomplish a lot over the last 48 hours that really helped the team.”Arnold declined to discuss the Brewers’ failed effort to swing a deal for Skubal, who landed with the team that swept the Brewers in last season’s National League Championship Series.“I’m not going to talk about specific guys,” Arnold said. “Obviously, we were in a lot of different things, and like I said, if you’re able to access what you can, you get it, and if not, you move on.”The speculation on social media, the news media and elsewhere as the trade deadline approached has had a negative impact on his team, Murphy said.“Everybody’s aware of everything. Everybody hears names and all that kind of stuff,” he said. “But we’ve got to go play baseball, and this has affected us. That’s the reality. And I don’t think it’s healthy. We can’t try to pretend it’s not there. Can’t lie to the players.”The Brewers’ acquisitions will “help make us a bit stronger,” Murphy said, noting that the team’s pitching staff has been riddled with injuries. Arnold expressed confidence that May, Romero and Senzatela, who were expected to arrive in Milwaukee late Monday or early Tuesday, will serve