Shelby Miller is joining the Chicago Cubs, according to a person familiar with the situation, after the pitcher had major elbow surgery in October.<\/p>\n
Miller has agreed to a two-year, $2.5 million contract with Chicago, said the person who spoke on condition of anonymity because the agreement was pending a physical. The 35-year-old right-hander is expected to miss the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
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Miller played for Arizona and Milwaukee last year, going 4-3 with a 2.74 ERA and 10 saves in 48 appearances. He was traded from the Diamondbacks to the Brewers on July 31.<\/p>\n
He made his last appearance of the season on Sept. 1. He was placed on the 60-day injured list on Sept. 3 with a sprained ulnar collateral ligament in his throwing elbow.<\/p>\n
Miller pitched in three games for Chicago in 2021, allowing seven runs and seven hits in two innings. He is 51-69 with a 4.04 ERA in 133 starts and 169 relief appearances in 13 years in the majors with 10 teams.<\/p>\n
Also Friday, the Cubs announced that they had agreed to minor league contracts with right-handers Kyle Wright and Vince Velasquez. Each pitcher received an invitation to big league camp for spring training.<\/p>\n
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Wright and Velasquez haven\u2019t pitched in the majors since 2023.<\/p>\n
Wright helped Atlanta win the 2021 World Series, and he went 21-5 with a 3.19 ERA in 30 starts for the Braves in 2022. Velasquez is 38-51 with a 4.88 ERA in 191 career big league games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shelby Miller is joining the Chicago Cubs, according to a person familiar with the situation, after the pitcher…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[146,191,5,136,138,24,4245,161,1356,843,4,849,2245,1941],"class_list":["post-571998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-arizona","tag-atlanta","tag-baseball","tag-brewers","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-kyle-wright","tag-milwaukee","tag-mlb","tag-shelby-miller","tag-the-diamondbacks","tag-vince-velasquez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116068575070646863","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571998","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=571998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}