The Brewers have signed right-hander Shelby Miller to a minor league contract, The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal reports (Twitter links).
After being released by the Rangers last week, Miller will now return to the National League as he tries to once again revive his career. Miller posted an 8.59 ERA over 44 innings for Texas, recording almost as many walks (29) as strikeouts (30), and eventually losing his rotation job due to his inability to his ongoing struggles.
The 44 innings represents the most Miller has pitched in the last two seasons, as Tommy John surgery and a separate set of elbow problems limited the right-hander to just 38 innings total in 2017-18. Before those two injury-ravaged seasons and his poor 2016 debut year with the Diamondbacks, Miller was considered one of the more promising young arms in baseball, coming off three impressive years with the Braves and Cardinals from 2013-15.
Miller is still just 28 years old and still averages close to 95mph on his fastball, making him a risk worth taking for the Brewers on a flier of a minor league deal. Milwaukee will owe Miller only the prorated minimum salary if he reaches the club’s MLB roster, as the Rangers are on the hook for the remainder of the one-year contract he signed last winter ($2MM in guaranteed salary, and $400K in achieved incentives).
Cue Stubby66 with his long and pointless rant about EXACTLY what the Brewers “need” to do.
You are something special
Good or bad?
Like having to wear a helmet before you go
Outside special
now sign tyler
Throw a bunch against the wall and see if any of them will stick. Would feel better in getting something out of these guys if we still had Derek Johnson as our pitching coach .
Ummm he had a 10 era last year and only an 8 era this year. Positive direction?
Juiced balls are not hurting him!
Good lord
It’s well known TJ patients can take a while to get their control back. Some go through a full season battling walks – Miller had only put in 40 odd innings.
With a bit of patience, there might be something there. Especially with 95 coming out of the hand starting.
Wow….finally got one right….good low risk pick up
Ayeeeeee bout to give us three quality innings until we release you for a new waiver wire reliever
You know, when I saw he got released, I actually suspected the Brewers might end up signing him. They’re definitely trying to find a bargain. But they need to at least check in and see if they can find a good pitcher on the trading block. Which, I’m sure they’re doing.
How did he achieve any incentives LOL?
I read it to mean IF he were able to achieve them this season, the Rangers are on the hook, not the Brewers.
I read it to mean “achieveD incentives.” I was wondering the same thing. 40+ innings pitched maybe?? $10k per inning is a lot to pay for a pitcher with an ERA over 8.50 though. Especially if your paying him $2 mill on top of that.
They’re taking all of Texas’ rotation cast offs.
How was Klentak not involved in this? His paralysis is astounding. He must know he’s done at the end of this year and isn’t even giving it the old Dartmouth college try.
Agreed re the Dartmouth Dunce.
Just hope that he intervenes before panic-trading Boehm for a “proven pro” like Anibal Sanchez,
The “he” would be John Middleton
I think this dude could find himself in a fly ball friendly park. Maybe Detroit, San Francisco, or Pittsburgh.
Not bad pick up. Nothing wrong taking a look on mi or league deals. Sorry Big Chungus it is what it is
Fly ball pitchers don’t last long in the juiced ball era…
He couldn’t zoom if you put four million volts in him.
Brewers should trade him to Arizona for all there good prospects.
5.21 FIP since Stewart traded his top prospects for him.
For DANSBY SWANSON!!!
Damn.I had a huge post written out about the history of Tony La Russa trading Shelby Miller from the Cards all the way through Tony La Russa trading Dansby Swanson, Ender Inciarte and Aaron Blair to acquire Shelby Miller for the D-Backs. I had everything from La Russa drafting Shelby Miller and the D-Backs drafting Dansby Swanson #1 overall and then trading him 6 months later along with a future 3 time consecutive gold glove award winning center fielder (Ender Inciarte) as well as Aaron Blair. I wrote in depth about the knee jerk emotional reaction La Russa made when he traded for Shelby and how no one could possibly know he would turn out this bad. I even made some predictions about Shelby’s future. I am no writer but I did spend over half an hour writing that reply. I have to do it on my cell phone as I do not own a computer. The only issue is that the “No new comments” button lays dead in the middle of where I can see what I type. I accidently hit the red “Log Out” script button and lost over half an hour (and hundreds of words) worth of material. I can’t replicate it at this point. I wouldn’t even know how. I was typing with a flow and I couldn’t even see what I was typing (I would have spell checked when I was done). I know no one comes here to read what I specifically post but I do put my heart and soul into most of it. I occasionally get compliments on the insight and knowledge of my posts and it absolutely makes my day. Can we please find a way to eliminate the “No new comments” button? I know it doesn’t always say that based on the status of comments recently posted and the comments I can see. I have tried using my phone as landscape and it is only worse. I have tried the Mobile Version and it is exactly the same. I know writers on this site would hate having their posts deleted because they hit a wrong button and/or couldn’t see what they have been typing. Maybe we could turn the “No new comments” button into red script just like the Log Out button (which shouldn’t even be there because there is an obvious LOGOUT button at the top header anyway)? Even as I type this I have to keep scrolling to be able to view my most recent line of text because I can only see one line of text at a time. I am only able to even control that once my line of text hits the bottom of the text box. The first few lines I am almost typing blind. Can someone please help me? I have messaged with other posters about this and the only thing I can see is to ask the people who run this site to get rid of the “No new comments” button.
Yea good luck with Drew and Shelby. Watched them get absolutely shelled the first half of the season. Washed up is an understatement.