The Cubs have placed left-hander Wade Miley on the 15-day injured list due to a left shoulder strain, the team announced. Mark Leiter Jr. was called up from Triple-A to take Miley’s place on the active roster.
Miley was supposed to start yesterday’s game against the White Sox, but was held back to shoulder soreness. Both Miley and the Cubs held out the possibility that Miley would be able to return to the mound as early as Monday, but clearly something was still amiss following the bullpen and long-toss sessions that Miley was scheduled to throw today.
This is already the second IL stint of the year for Miley, who didn’t make his first start of the season until May 10 due to some elbow inflammation that developed during Spring Training. When he has been able to pitch, Miley has been quite effective, posting a 3.38 ERA in 16 innings over three starts.
Leiter has made three starts for Chicago already this season, and is likely the short-term fill-in for a start on Monday when the Cubs host the Brewers for a doubleheader. Going forward, Keegan Thompson is the most probable candidate to take Miley’s spot in the rotation, as Thompson’s transition from long reliever to proper starting pitcher has thus far been very successful. Thompson has an outstanding 1.58 ERA over 40 innings in 2022, which breaks down as a 1.38 ERA in 26 relief frames and a 1.93 ERA in 14 innings as a starter.
Feel like matt swarmer has earned a spot start
Interesting take, Matt Swarmer.
Did anyone ever figure out why Miley was amazing for Houston the first half of that year but then got absolutely drilled every game in the second half?
He actually was kinda money for them in the 2nd half, he just had 3 very horrible starts in September (5th, 10th and 21st) where he let up 4-7 runs in around an inning of work each time. He had a few other meh starts in the 2nd half, 1 in august, where he gave up 7 runs (3 earned) on the 14th of august in 3.1 innings, 5 runs (3 earned) on the 13th of July in 6.2 innings (not even that bad), and back to back 3 and 4 earned run games, on June 17th and the 22nd in 4.1 and 5.0 innings respectively.
https://www.fangraphs.com/players/wade-miley/8779/game-log?position=P&season=&gds=2019-03-31&gde=2019-10-31&type=0
He wasn’t bad, even so mainly you could rely on him for around 3 runs given up minimum, but those horrid starts in September I think is skewing your memory a bit.
Probably so — good info, thanks!
They already know what they have in Mark Leiter Jr., and it’s not much. Why don’t they bring up Kilian?
Hoyer is holding as many trade chips as he can on the 40 man and IL. I would guess Kilian comes up after the trade deadline. But you never know, the Cubs do have a couple doubleheaders this week.
Miley came in like a wrecking ball
Did he tho?
As always, we await developments.