{"id":36392,"date":"2025-08-01T02:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/36392\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T02:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:15:13","slug":"brewers-acquire-shelby-miller-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/36392\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers Acquire Shelby Miller – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brewers acquired injured pitchers Shelby Miller<\/a> and Jordan Montgomery<\/a> from the Diamondbacks for a player to be named later or cash. Steve Gilbert of MLB.com<\/a> reports that Milwaukee is absorbing $2MM of the approximate $7.1MM remaining on Montgomery\u2019s $22.5MM salary. The D-Backs are seemingly kicking in a little over $5MM.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a pure salary dump for Arizona. Montgomery underwent Tommy John surgery in Spring Training. He\u2019ll be a free agent at season\u2019s end. He\u2019s on the 60-day injured list and won\u2019t have any impact on the Brewers\u2019 season. They\u2019re letting the D-Backs off the hook for a small portion of the remaining salary to effectively purchase Miller without needing to give up any young talent.<\/p>\n

Miller is on the injured list himself after sustaining a forearm strain a few weeks ago. He avoided surgery and is expected back this season. GM Matt Arnold told reporters (including Todd Rosiak of The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel<\/a>) that he\u2019d spoken to Miller about his recovery. Arnold said the righty has had sharp stuff in bullpen sessions and might not be far away from a rehab assignment.<\/p>\n

Before the injury, the 34-year-old Miller looked like one of the best rental relievers available. He\u2019d taken over Arizona\u2019s closer role and had fired 36 1\/3 innings of 1.98 ERA ball. There\u2019s obviously no guarantee that he\u2019ll maintain that form after an arm injury, but Milwaukee is only spending a few million dollars to find out. Miller himself is playing on a $1MM salary after signing an offseason minor league deal; the only somewhat significant money that the Brewers are taking is the cash they\u2019re eating on Montgomery.<\/p>\n

The Brewers already have one of the game\u2019s deepest bullpens. Miller could add another weapon for the stretch run and into the postseason. Milwaukee can feel pretty well assured that they\u2019re going to make the playoffs in some capacity. Miller has a shot to play a big role in October if he comes back strong.<\/p>\n

Robert Murray of FanSided<\/a> reported the Brewers were acquiring Miller. Will Sammon and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic<\/a> had Montgomery\u2019s inclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brewers acquired injured pitchers Shelby Miller and Jordan Montgomery from the Diamondbacks for a player to be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,32952,591,32953,85],"class_list":["post-36392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jordan-montgomery","tag-mlb","tag-shelby-miller","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}