Brewers acquire Shelby Miller and Jordan Montgomery from Arizona

[bm1090]

Return TBD

[StearnsFTW]

Excellent.   Assuming he can get and stay healthy. 

[iKezims]

Take for what it is worth: 

 

[homer]

and there's your bullpen guy(s)

[iKezims]

 

[NOMAAM]

1 minute ago, iKezims said:

 

🤮

[Playing Catch]

Whoo boy! Things just got interesting around here!

[Brewer77]

I’m guessing the Brewers gave up essentially nothing in this one. Montgomery is a salary dump and Miller is a rental

[iKezims]

With Montgomery out with TJ - seems we basically just bought Shelby Miller by taking on the Montgomery contract, with no prospect changing hands. 

[NOMAAM]

Just now, Brewer77 said:

I’m guessing the Brewers gave up essentially nothing in this one. Montgomery is a salary dump and Miller is a rental

Dumped Cortez to get Miller.

[Brewer77]

1 minute ago, NOMAAM said:

Dumped Cortez to get Miller.

Pretty much how the math works out. Cortes and PTBNL/cash considerations for Miller and Lockridge

[Playing Catch]

2 minutes ago, Brewer77 said:

Pretty much how the math works out. Cortes and PTBNL/cash considerations for Miller and Lockridge

Hmmm... more sensible that way. I hadn't considered near-nil prospect-value going back in the deals. Instead, they actually added near-nil prospect-value (no disrespect to Lockridge's game).

[OldHeidelberg]

Traded Cortes for Miller in a round about way? I am down with that, really was thinking they should trade Quintana or Cortes for ML help if they could find it and bullpen makes sense.

[snoogans8056]

Wonder if the PTBNL / cash changes based on his availability. Sounds like he’s got a forearm IL stint.

[umphrey]

I can’t figure out why send Montgomery instead of just taking cash. Tax threshold thing?

[landoc88]

Like Miller but Montgomery will probably never throw a pitch for Milwaukee 

[markedman5]

 

[AKCheesehead]

13 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

 

My first thought is, I sure hope this works out a hell of a lot better than Trevor Rosenthall did. 

[torts]

9 minutes ago, AKCheesehead said:

My first thought is, I sure hope this works out a hell of a lot better than Trevor Rosenthall did. 

[HarryDoyle]

So what did we give up?

[adambr2]

49 minutes ago, landoc88 said:

Like Miller but Montgomery will probably never throw a pitch for Milwaukee 

He’s a free agent next year, so he won’t unless he re-signs here. 

I wonder if the idea is to finish his rehab here, get him into the pitching lab and see if we can sell him on a prove-it 1 year deal next year? He was obviously a solid pitcher up until last year.

That’s the only way it really makes sense to me. I mean we could have just sent them cash. 

[patrickgpe]

I’ll give Arnold credit for creativity, but it’s frustrating that every team in contention was throwing around prospects like candy and the brewers only did these  moves that basically offset salaries. 

to be clear, I’m not advocating for the Arnold to act like preller and be wreckless, but the brewers doing habe trades a prospect or 2: in the 8-18 range and be ok. 

[BallFour]

Worrisome to trade for a guy who has forearm soreness that relies on a splitter for his out pitch.

[patrickgpe]

I totally forgot he was already in the organization in 2020 until I looked at his wiki page. 

[StearnsFTW]

1 hour ago, BallFour said:

Worrisome to trade for a guy who has forearm soreness that relies on a splitter for his out pitch.

Considering they gave up nothing I'm not too worried about it.

 

I get that they could've gotten someone else instead, but I don't know that they considered anyone else.