The right-handed pitcher and lefty Jordan Montgomery<\/a> were acquired from the Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> shortly before the trade deadline, the clubs announced Thursday. In return, Arizona will receive a player to be named later or cash for the pair of veteran pitchers.<\/p>\n The MLB-leading Brewers (64-44) were relatively quiet as other contenders retooled their rosters across the league. Milwaukee traded lefty Nestor Cortes<\/a>, minor league shortstop Jorge Quintana and cash to the San Diego Padres<\/a> for outfielder Brandon Lockridge.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks Sidelined since July 5 with an elbow injury, Miller is 3-3 this season with a 1.98 ERA, 0.96 WHIP and 10 saves in 37 relief appearances. The 34-year-old has 40 strikeouts over 36 1\/3 innings in a resurgent campaign.<\/p>\n A one-time All-Star as a member of the Atlanta Braves<\/a> in 2015, Miller signed as a free agent with Milwaukee in 2019 and pitched in eight minor-league games before being shut down. He reunited with the Brewers again on a minor-league deal with an invite to spring training in 2020 before opting out during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n Montgomery, on the other hand, is out for the season after undergoing Tommy John surgery and can become a free agent this off-season. Montgomery, 32, has a career mark of 46-41 with one save, a 4.03 ERA, 251 walks and 788 strikeouts in 872 innings over 166 games (161 starts) for the New York Yankees<\/a> (2017-22), St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (2022-23), Texas Rangers<\/a> (2023) and Diamondbacks (2024).<\/p>\n Over 13 years in the majors, Miller has a 50-69 record, 13 saves, a 4.03 ERA and 1.31 WHIP in 291 career appearances (133 starts). He has 775 strikeouts and 355 walks over 912 innings with the Cardinals (2012-14), Braves (2015), Diamondbacks (2016-18, 2025), Rangers (2019), Chicago Cubs<\/a> (2021), Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> (2021), San Francisco Giants<\/a> (2022), Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> (2023) and Detroit Tigers<\/a> (2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 31, 2025, 09:23 PM ET Shelby Miller is on his way back to the Milwaukee organization for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-36481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36481","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=36481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2025\/0313\/r1463770_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center\")
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