The Mets claimed right-hander Tyson Miller off waivers from the Dodgers, per announcements from both teams. Miller has been optioned to Triple-A Syracuse, per the Mets.
Miller, 28, has been a member of the L.A. organization for a bit less than a month. The Dodgers acquired him from the Brewers in a cash transaction in mid-July. Miller made one two-inning appearance a couple weeks later, allowing two runs on three hits. He’s pitched twice with OKC on optional assignment.
The right-hander has appeared for four teams over parts of three big league seasons. He has just 27 innings at the highest level, carrying an even 8.00 ERA. Miller’s underlying marks are well below-average in that limited big league look. He owns a 4.69 ERA over 228 1/3 innings at the Triple-A level. He’s fanned a little more than a quarter of opponents in Triple-A against a slightly elevated 10% walk rate.
Miller is in his final option year, so he can be shuttled between Triple-A Syracuse and Queens for the remainder of the season. The Mets depleted their pitching depth at the trade deadline when they sold off and sent David Robertson, Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer to other clubs. Miller will give them a depth option for the remainder of the year. He’s worked primarily out of the bullpen in 2023 but does have experience as a starter under his belt as well.
Placing Miller on waivers cleared a 40-man roster spot for the Dodgers to reinstate Ryan Pepiot from the 60-day injured list and option him to Triple-A. The former top prospect had secured the fifth spot in the starting staff at the end of Spring Training. An oblique strain just before exhibition play wrapped unfortunately dashed that, sending him to the IL for upwards of four months.
The 25-year-old righty has made four rehab appearances with Oklahoma City over the last three weeks. He threw 70 pitches on Monday as he continues to build up to a starting workload. It doesn’t seem the Dodgers feel he’s quite ready to return to MLB action, but his reinstatement suggests he’s not far off.
Great Baseball name.
BooYah! Yet another new arsonist to light up the bullpen. Quality move Eppler!
They’re tanking so the CBT tax doesn’t affect next years first round draft pick placement. They want arsonists.
When you write they are tanking, do you have some inside knowledge that the players are throwing games?
They traded two relievers, an aging one who was meant to be a setup guy who was sketchy down the stretch with Philly last year and the other they picked off the scrap heap.
They traded a 3B who had lost his job
They traded two OF’s, neither of whom is more than a 4th OF
They traded two SP’s, one who spent half the season to date on the DL, and the other with a pedestrian ERA above 4, both of whom are at an advanced age.
From a Dodger fan, it looks like the players underperformed and the team traded SP’s who don’t look to have longevity and a bunch of spare parts that were all on relatively short term or expiring this year contracts.
The team they have now still has a lot of talent.
Their current rotation is not competitive.
Not tanking, per se. But it is what it is.
Senga, Quintana, Carrasco, Peterson and at some point Butto …..you aren’t wrong, but the lineup isn’t bad, just a lot of underperformance
Senga and Quintana would be the Dodgers 1 and 2 right now. Worst stretch of starting pitching I can remember. Winning with bats. Mets bats need to go win more games.
WampumWalloper…a Dodger fan? You’re handle led me to believe you were a Guardians(aka Indians) fan.
And need bats is so spot on! What an embarrassing sweep in KC.I was alternating sips of beer and Pepto watching that mess. No clutch hitting at all this season.
It’s actually a nickname of Richie/Dick Allen. He retired before I was even born, and he was only a Dodger for a year, but I like the nickname.
He was feared
The lineup is very poor, particularly for a would-be contender:
10th in Runs Scored
10th in BA
11th in OBP
13th in SLG
10th in OPS
They actually lucked out with Pham and Alvarez, This is an organization so bad it didn’t even recognize it had a strong ROY candidate, and tried to stick Alvarez in the minors. Their 2nd or 3rd best hitter and they didn’t even realize he was MLB ready—but they sure thought Baty was ready, to the point where they dealt away a better 3Bman in the middle of the race.
Brett Baty and his 75 OPS+ hitting, and subpar defense at 3B. Great job, Mets. They can’t even teach him to chew gum with his mouth closed. Where’s his mother?
Negative 0.4 rWAR for the season to date. The front office is full of geniuses. Great evaluators.
If you’re referring to Eduardo Escobar as the better 3bman, you’ll need to look up his rwar too.
Also, note that you attribute the Baty situation to poor process, but two situations that do not support your conclusion (Pham and Alvarez) to good luck. Do you think that’s fair? Why couldn’t pham and Alvarez be good process and baty be bad luck?
Cookie & Peterson & add Megill are all AAAA pitchers or even AA. Keep doing same thing over & over. Isn’t that insanity.
@raisinsss You seem blissfully oblivious to Escobar’s .935 OPS with the Mets from the day Baty was up, not to mention his better glove than Baty’s by OAA and DRS. You also appear unable to read for comprehension any sentence that you’re unable to address, such as how the Mets tried to stick Alvarez in the minors as, get this, part of their process.
Ah okay, my bad. You’re right. Instead of judging a player based on their overall career trajectory, a few months at the beginning of the season and then also a couple of months since being traded, we should look exclusively at the brief period of time when his apparent replacement is also on the roster while also disregarding the trade return to know that trading him was a bad idea. See that’s my fault for thinking such a practice would be so ignorant and counterproductive and altogether useless that nobody would ever try it, and yet here today I am proven wrong. Nice work.
Whatever the process is, it seems to have worked with Alvarez and Pham though, no? I’m not talking about things the Mets were “thinking about.” Things that happened.
Pick them cherries though, buddy.
DFA Mets.
Why send him to the minors? A career 8.00 ERA? That sounds like closer material for the Mets.
Chicken and beer please
Billy is just picking through the Dodgers trash to fill out a roster for the rest of the season.
Eppler loves shopping at the 99 cents store for relief pitching. One of the reasons the Mets suck this year is that monster bullpen he put together.
@DDDog The day the Mets dealt David Robinson they lacked even one reliever with more than a few innings pitched who had a FIP under 4.00. Not even one. It’s hard to imagine any other team has a record of failure quite like that.
When they said they wanted to be like the Dodgers, I didn’t think that they meant picking up all of their bullpen cast-offs.
Ah, the endless churn. The Mets continue to cycle through every reliever who failed on other clubs, seeking out only the finest arsonists, guys with control problems, prone to the long ball, who ideally give up more than one hit per inning.
Can’t wait for the next drooling commenter who blames the Angels failures from 2016-2020 on Arte Moreno.
I wonder if Tyson “raised with no hormones” Miller will be this year’s version of 1977 Mets Roy Lee Jackson? Maybe Paul Siebert? This 2023 selloff has taken me back to the 1977 selloff of Seaver and Kingman, that left the Mets with Roy Staiger at 3B ( Baty ) and Leo Foster in the infield ( Mendick ) and a Bruce Boisclair/Dan Norman ( DJ Stewart ) manning the outfield daily.
Are the Peterson/Megill/Lucchesi starting staff conjuring memories of John Pacella et al?
I am all for nostalgia, but this is now a returning nightmare.
I do remember that by 1979, with Frank Tavares at shortstop, i could walk up to the window and buy a ticket for the upper deck at Shea for just about nothing, and the ushers walking me down to a field level seat so there would look like there were fans in the seats for the WOR broadcast. I couldn’t get a Yankees ticket in those days.
Aaah, the memories……….