{"id":899835,"date":"2026-10-30T11:24:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899835\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:24:30","slug":"dustin-may-declines-mutual-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/899835\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin May Declines Mutual Option"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dustin May<\/a> declined his end of a $20MM mutual option with the Brewers, reports Jon Heyman of The New York Post<\/a>. He\u2019ll collect a $500K buyout and return to the open market.<\/p>\n

This was a formality, as mutual options are essentially never triggered by both sides. (Milwaukee would likely have passed on their end of the $20MM provision as well.) May signed a one-year, $12.5MM free agent deal with the Cardinals last winter. St. Louis flipped him to the Brewers alongside reliever\u00a0JoJo Romero<\/a>, netting a pair of high-upside outfield prospects for the impending free agents.<\/p>\n

The Brewers obviously have no complaints as they celebrate their first championship. Romero proved the more valuable of the two acquisitions from St. Louis, though. May allowed a 5.65 ERA across 36 2\/3 regular season innings for the Brew Crew. He gave up seven runs over 11 frames during the playoffs.<\/p>\n

It was an up-and-down season for the 29-year-old righty. May finished the year with a combined 4.70 ERA but established a career high with 145 2\/3 innings. He struck out a solid 23.2% of opponents against a league average 8.1% walk rate. May has a six-pitch mix and averaged nearly 97 mph on his fastball. Teams have continually been intrigued by the arsenal, so he should do reasonably well in free agency.<\/p>\n

May\u2019s camp will likely look for two or three years with a bump over this year\u2019s salary given his youth, velocity, and decent underlying numbers. It\u2019d be a surprise if Milwaukee brings him back. Jeff Jones of The Belleville News-Democrat<\/a> speculates that the Cardinals could check in about a possible reunion. This was the first of four option decisions for the Brew Crew, all of which should be fairly simple. They should exercise their $14.5MM option on William Contreras<\/a> rather than proceeding to an arbitration hearing while buying out backup catcher\u00a0Gary S\u00e1nchez<\/a> and declining a $14MM option on reliever Antonio Senzatela<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dustin May declined his end of a $20MM mutual option with the Brewers, reports Jon Heyman of The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4283,363,99],"class_list":["post-899835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-dustin-may","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}