The Brewers announced that they’ll formally select the contract of left-hander Wade Miley prior to tomorrow’s game and designate right-hander Oliver Drake for assignment to open a spot on the 40-man roster. Miley, who signed a minor league deal with the Brewers but opened the season rehabbing a groin injury, will be added to the Brewers’ rotation now that his rehab assignment has been completed.
The 31-year-old Miley has made three rehab starts with Milwuakee’s Double-A affiliate, totaling 11 2/3 innings and allowing four earned runs on a dozen hits and two walks with 14 strikeouts. The former D-backs/Red Sox/Mariners/Orioles southpaw is coming off a dreadful stint with the O’s, having limped to a 5.75 ERA in a season-plus in Baltimore, but he’s posted a 35-to-10 K/BB ratio in the Brewers organization between Spring Training and his rehab stint (31 2/3 innings).
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He’ll join a Milwaukee rotation that includes Chase Anderson, Zach Davies, Jhoulys Chacin and Junior Guerra for the time being as they await the return of Jimmy Nelson from shoulder surgery. Miley is stepping into the rotation spot of fellow southpaw Brent Suter, who has already been moved to the bullpen in advance of the widely anticipated addition of Miley to the starting mix.
Drake, meanwhile, has gotten off to a miserable start to his 2018 season, yielding nine runs on 14 hits and eight walks in 12 2/3 innings. To his credit, he’s punched out 15 hitters in that time and induced grounders at a well-above-average 52.9 percent clip while not allowing a home run. The righty has totaled 102 1/3 innings in the Majors between the Orioles and Brewers, averaging better than 10 strikeouts per nine innings with solid ground-ball tendencies, though he’s been haunted by shaky control and a strand rate that falls quite a bit below the league average.
Thus begins the Wade Miley era in Milwaukee. Don’t blink or you might miss it.
The big news here is Oliver Drake is gone. Finally.
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It would appear the Brewers won twice tonight.
One oriole castoff for another
I know some people ate frustrated with the Brewers but think the roster is starting to turn out to shape up pretty decent. I see they brought up Phillips today too. I think now they need to decide on Perez and Sogard. It might be time to give Dubon and Orf a chance.
I’d like to see CC put Perez at 2nd and leave him there for at least a month. He’s the fastest guy on the team &, when Phillips is down, has the best arm. Plus some pop…Villar seems to be always looking for a way to lose a game, Perez just the opposite.
Yeah I agree with that I would really like to see Villar and Broxton traded for prospects and I think it is also time for them to move on from Bandy. Go with Betancourt , plus he can pitch in games we need to just get it over in a blow out
What exactly do you think they could get in return for those 2? As bad as some fans believe they are individually, I don’t see any team giving up anything of value for the pair.
No contending team has a need for either, and they don’t even fit in a rebuilding team’s plans, particularly if they’re expected to give up prospects in return.
Guessing bandy is around until Vogt gets healthy.
Villar has a higher ceiling, see 2016, than Perez so they’ll stick with him as long as they can.
Hey you can’t say nobody couldn’t use them. There is Detroit, Texas and Miami lol. I’m not expecting much for them but you might get a lottery pick in a possible prospect like we did with Lind. We got lucky with getting Peralta and Supack
Those 3 are clearly rebuilding though. It’s unlikely they’d want anyone already in the big leagues, even less likely they’d want to send a prospect with all those years of control left.
A contender MIGHT have a use for 1 or the other if injuries pile up, but it’s a long shot is all I’m saying.
I really want to see hiura come up, they got everything they could out of sogard, but he’s done
Hiura is somewhat struggling at high A