The Yankees announced Monday that they’ve signed veteran infielder Brad Miller to a minor league contract. The ISE Baseball client was recently designated for assignment by the Indians and elected free agency rather than accept an outright assignment to the minor leagues.
The 29-year-old Miller hit .250/.325/.417 with a homer and three doubles in his short time with the Indians but lost out on his roster spot when Cleveland activated Jason Kipnis from the injured list. Miller isn’t a strong defender but has experience all over the infield as well as in the outfield corners, making him an interesting depth pickup for an injury-decimated Yankees club. The lefty-swinging utilityman is a career .240/.313/.409 hitter in 2545 plate appearances, including a .243/.322/.433 line against right-handed pitching.
At present, the Yankees have Greg Bird, Troy Tulowitzki, Miguel Andujar and Didi Gregorius all on the injured list, which has forced the club to carry a hodgepodge of largely unproven replacements. Mike Ford, Gio Urshela and Tyler Wade are all logging at-bats around the infield right now (in addition to DJ LeMahieu and Gleyber Torres), and things in the outfield aren’t necessarily any better; Aaron Judge, Aaron Hicks and Giancarlo Stanton are all on the IL for the Yankees, leaving Clint Frazier, Brett Gardner and Mike Tauchman in the starting lineup. To their credit, however, both Frazier and the relatively unknown Tauchman have performed quite well.
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What?! Minor league deal?! Clearly the Yankees do not want the best players on their roster…
Minor league deal so they can keep the luxury tax down
You missed the joke. Not wanting the best players on the roster is what Miller said about Cleveland DFA’ing him.
LMAO!
Stand by for ridiculous outrage over a minor league depth signing.
I wish I could like this 1000 times.
depth signing? he’ll be hitting cleanup tonight
It’s not even a bad signing. He was one of the few Indians who could actually hit the ball. Maybe he can carry that over to New York for a week or two until they have some returning players.
What returning players “in a week or two”?
Sanchez is coming back during the LA series for starters
That’s one player bro, and Brad Miller doesn’t play catcher.
Wow Steve-How did you research that? So much good intel on your part. Thanks for putting the time in to make your sarcasm to laughable. Make fun all you want. It’s a team’s health in September and October that matter.
As for now the Yankees havent folded and are not too far off the pace.
By the way Chin, why don’t you give visibility to your team ?
He obviously a Yankee fan. You’d certainly know that if your sole intention was to troll teams you dislike on this website.
Miley don’t you have a Mets article to spread your pungent takes.
Headline tomorrow – Brad Miller to IL
It would only be fitting
Didn’t Brad learn anything from observation? If you become a Yankee, you’re hitting the IL. It’s like “Final Destination meets the Drummer from Spinal Tap.”
I put $20 on “Strained oblique, 10-Day IL May 10th” Anyone else?
Omg, roflmao
It’s a minor league deal, so he’s safe for now. But if they call him up, just say no thanks. Rather ride a bus than the plane of doom, thank you very much.
What you need to do is along the lines of the pool Zach Morris ran for Mrs. Belding’s baby’s birth where everybody pays five bucks and picks a day in the month of May.
It’s a Minor League deal so it’s whatever but Miller is awful lol
So it’s basically an awful minor league deal?
Scranton needed to replace the all mighty wade
Miller time indeed lololol
I mean the guy is a clown, who can only hit if you just so happen to throw the ball in the path of his loopy swing. But whatever.
I imagine that the big red floppy shoes make it hard for him to run the bases, too.
Minor league travel is a snap tho after all that time in the clown car
Tito Francona’s burner account, ladies and gentlemen
Anyone from NJ that is a birds fan is the clown with his stupid comments.
He’s just a ball player trying to earn a living (and improve).
That’s the best usage of the word “hodgepodge” I can ever recall seeing. Actually, calling the Yankees injury replacements a hodgepodge might be too kind.
Since you can’t spell nor put a cohesive thought together, how many teams can you recall that have had as many injuries over the past ten years?
I wasn’t making a personal attack, good sir, just an attempt at a joke that apparently didn’t go over well with everyone. You’ve made similar responses to my comments before, and feel free to do so in the future, but I’m not taking the bait after today. Be well.
Yet the Yankees are 11-10 and their 6-9 hitters are doing their part to keep the team in contention.
Yep, and that’s with losing some close games. Their run differential is even better than their record.
Yea and the had the easiest schedule in the division. They go out west where they play real teams on the road.
Oh Steve-you are so insightful. The only
Problem is that easy schedules at the beginning of the season are not AS easy because the teams haven’t been beaten down as much so the players try harder. By July they swing at anything and everything.
BYW-how did the Yankees do against a real team Monday?
Looks like they beat Trout and the 8 piles of compost he has to play with.
So what you’re saying is that the Yankee’s AAA team is better than some of the MLB squads being run out there.
That short right field porch could help Miller look pretty good in pinstripes
lofl
They’ll be signing him to a 10 year deal next week
Why don’t the Yankees take a couple of these guys and trade them for Eric Thames and save him from the bench in Milwaukee.
Aguilar has really struggled to start the year and Thames is starting for the 2nd game in a row right now so probably not happening.
It’s not a horrible move just another desperate one.
If he makes it to the big league roster, a big IF, it will only be because of the many injuries, then he’ll piss and moan when he’s let go.
Just keep it together until we get healthy!!