Shelby Miller: Yankees| Trade| Stats| What happened to

The Yankees announced Sunday that they have signed veteran right-hander Shelby Miller to a minor league contract that includes an invitational. Today we will discuss about Shelby Miller: Yankees| Trade| Stats| What happened to.

Shelby Miller: Yankees| Trade| Stats| What happened to

Shelby Charles Miller (born October 10, 1990) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the New York Yankees organization. He previously played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers and Chicago Cubs.

Yankees

According to a team press release, the Yankees have signed right-hander Shelby Miller. Miller is invited to the Yankees’ big league spring camp.

Still only 31 years old, Miller is best known for his time with the Cardinals and Braves, when he posted a 3.22 ERA in 575 1/3 innings from 2012-15. With third place in NL Rookie of the Year voting and an All-Star appearance in 2015, Miller seemed like one of baseball’s rising young pitching stars, but now he’s never the same after being dealt with by the Diamondbacks. Wasn’t—the infamous tradeoff for Arizona fans.

Miller struggled in 2016 with a finger injury, and then because of Tommy John surgery, playing only 38 more innings during his d’back stint. Since then, Miller has bounced off four different teams trying to revive his career, most recently pitching for the Cubs and Pirates in 2021. Wrighty had a combined 9.24 ERA in 12 2/3 big league innings last season, but at least his Triple-A stats (2.96 ERA, 37.75 percent strike rate over 24 1/3 IP) provided some reason for optimism. Did it

While Miller technically made four Triple-A starts last year, they were more of a brief variety, and he seems to be more or less a full-time relief pitcher at this point in his career. New York will be the latest team to try to get Miller on track, and he will hardly be the first ex-starter to find a second act as a viable reliever. At the cost of a minor league deal, Miller has no exposure to the Yankees seeing what’s in the camp, and should probably accept an assignment to hide in Triple-A. Given the relatively short time between now and Opening Day, it doesn’t look like Miller has a shot at breaking camp with the team.

Trade

In its entirety, the five-player deal sent Miller and relief prospect Gabe Spear to the Diamondbacks, who in turn dropped Ander Insert, Dansby Swanson and Aaron Blair to the Braves. About six months ago, the D-back made 21-year-old shortstop Swanson from Vanderbilt the first overall pick in the 2015 draft. For that hefty price, Arizona got their man.

Miller was coming off a year in which he set a crappy 6-17 W-L record, but that mark was wildly misaligned with his 3.02 ERA, which fell just outside the top 10 in the NL. He did so in his first (and only) year at Atlanta, racking up 205 1/3 innings, which secured him as the centerpiece of the trade that sent Jason Hayward to the Cardinals.

The move strongly announced Arizona GM Dave Stewart’s intention to struggle in the immediate future. Acquiring Miller came on the heels of Zack Greenke’s free-agent signing, which gave the D-Backs a formidable rotation of Greenke, Miller, Robbie Ray and Patrick Corbin. It was written by Paul Goldschmidt and AJ. Pollock, and it’s not hard to see how Arizona considered a path for the postseason. However, they would win just 69 games in 2016 and essentially wound up as a re-imagining of last year’s Padres, a team that similarly only went on to fall flat.

Stats

DATE	OPP	RESULT	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO
Sun 10/3	vsCIN	W 8-6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fri 10/1	vsCHC	L 9-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mon 9/27	@CIN	L 13-1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sat 9/25	@PHI	L 8-6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sun 9/19	@MIA	L 6-5 F/10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

What happened to

Drafted by the Cardinals from Brownwood High School in the first round of the 2009 MLB draft, Miller became one of the game’s highest-rated prospects. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Cardinals’ Minor League Pitcher of the Year in 2010, Baseball America’s number one Cardinals prospect from 2009 to 2011, and selection for the All-Star Futures Game in 2010 and 2011. A fourth award, MLB.com’s Pitching Performance of the Month, was the result of his first MLB full game shutout in May 2013, a hitter against the Colorado Rockies.

After the 2014 season, the Cardinals traded Miller to the Braves. In 2015, Miller was named to the MLB All-Star Game. That offseason, the Braves traded Miller to the Diamondbacks.