Miller started the season as the lone lefty in the then-impressive Giants\u2019 bullpen and he was a big reason for the team\u2019s early season success, posting a 1.50 ERA in 30 IP and generating 1.5 rWAR in that span. Walks were certainly an issue \u2014 he had 20 in that innings total, pumping up his FIP to an ugly 3.95 \u2014 but he was effective enough and the injury helped him peace out before the bill came due. What was concerning \u2014 and what might have been a leading indicator that he had an arm problem \u2014 was the lowered strikeout totals. Just 22 against those 20 walks. Compare that to last season when he struck out 87 in 67.1 IP and you can see why the Giants were eager to elevate his stature in the pen but also why he just wasn\u2019t quite right this season.<\/p>\n
The move creates a spot on the 40-man roster, which the Giants have filled with 28-year old RHP Joel Peguero. You may remember hearing about him back in March. Joel Peguero was the Barney Nugent Award winner at the end of Spring Training<\/a>, as his \u201cperformance and dedication in Spring Training best exemplif[ied] the San Francisco Giants spirit,\u201d a thing you can do when you\u2019re blowing guys away with 100+ mph fastballs.<\/p>\n He\u2019s played nine seasons of minor league baseball and has never appeared in the majors. I suspect we\u2019ll see him today. For the River Cats this season, he\u2019s registered a 5.10 ERA in 42.1 IP and a 2:1 K:BB (46:23). He\u2019s also allowed just 4 home runs \u2014 but he\u2019s uncorked 7 wild pitches. But since July 1st, he\u2019s been a whole new pitcher, with a 3.84 ERA and 3:1 K:BB (25:8). This is the inspirational baseball story about perseverance you like to see at the end of a lost season and I\u2019ll be watching his debut with interest.<\/p>\n To make room for him on the 26-man roster, the Giants optioned both Kai-Wei Teng and Grant McCray. McCray\u2019s spot will be filled by Luis Matos, who has been on a tear of late, going 8-for-22 with a pair of homers and a trio of doubles in his last five games. Finally, in preparation for the getaway to Milwaukee, Carson Whisenhunt has appeared on the taxi squad, per Alex Pavlovic<\/a>. Per Maria Guardado<\/a>, Carson Whisenhunt is expected to be recalled tomorrow and start against the Brewers, which will give Logan Webb and Robbie Ray an extra day of rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miller started the season as the lone lefty in the then-impressive Giants\u2019 bullpen and he was a big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[5,162,4,169,1830,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342],"class_list":{"0":"post-264822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-roster","13":"tag-san-francisco","14":"tag-san-francisco-giants","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","17":"tag-sf","18":"tag-sf-giants","19":"tag-sfgiants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115072098963918103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}