{"id":27427,"date":"2019-12-17T01:41:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T06:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/?p=27427"},"modified":"2019-12-17T01:52:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T06:52:38","slug":"wade-miley-two-year-contract-reds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2019\/12\/17\/wade-miley-two-year-contract-reds\/","title":{"rendered":"Wade Miley Agrees to Two-Year Contract With Cincinnati Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending 2019 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/houston-astros\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Houston Astros<\/a>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mileywa01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wade Miley<\/a><\/strong> has found a new home. According to reports, he has agreed to a two-year contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/cincinnati-reds\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cincinnati Reds<\/a> that will pay him $15 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Free-agent left-hander Wade Miley in agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Reds?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Reds<\/a> on two-year, $15M contract, pending physical, sources tell The Athletic. Deal will reunite him with his former pitching coach in Milwaukee, Derek Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/1206763632706703360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Personal History<\/h2>\n<p>Wade Miley pitched 167.1 innings pitched with a 3.98 ERA in 2019. He struck out 7.5 K\/9 and 3.3 BB\/9. Miley started off the season well, but<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/split.fcgi?id=mileywa01&amp;t=p&amp;year=2019\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> imploded in September<\/a>, which inflated his overall numbers.<\/p>\n<p>By month, his ERA never soared as higher than 3.76 from March\/April through August. That includes a 2.03 ERA in 31 innings pitched across five July starts. That being said, his ERA in September\/October sat at 16.68 in 11.1 innings pitched.<\/p>\n<p>Miley will be helped by reuniting with his former pitching coach, Derek Johnson. Johnson was Miley&#8217;s pitching coach in 2018 while playing with the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/milwaukee-brewers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Milwaukee Brewers<\/a>, and he enjoyed success in a sample size of 80.2 innings pitched. That season, he pitched to a 2.57 ERA and a 1.215 WHIP. He capped off that season by allowing two earned runs in 14.2 innings pitched in the postseason as the Brewers went to the Game 7 of the NLCS.<\/p>\n<p>The reunion with Johnson should pay dividends for Miley just as did for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/grayso01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sonny Gray<\/a> <\/strong>in 2019. Gray played for Johnson at Vanderbilt University.<\/p>\n<p>Gray was an All-Star in 2019 during his first season reunited with Johnson. He finished with a 2.87 ERA and a WHIP of 1.084 after posting a 4.90 ERA 1.496 WHIP in 2018 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/mlb-teams\/new-york-yankees\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Yankees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Reds Rotation<\/h2>\n<p>Although the Reds finished 2019 75-87, they have a clear strength in their starting rotation that will help them contend throughout 2020. Miley is a great fit for this team because he can provide depth to a staff that features <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=castilu02,castilu01,castil020lui,castil014lui,castil019lui,castil018lui&amp;search=Luis+Castillo&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luis Castillo<\/a><\/strong>, Gray, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bauertr01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Trevor Baue<\/strong>r<\/a>. He will slide into the back of the rotation with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/desclan01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony DeSclafani<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds finished with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/stats\/team\/_\/stat\/pitching\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">8th best<\/a> ERA in MLB. Although Bauer struggled upon being acquired at the trade deadline, that was largely thanks in part to their starting rotation. Miley looks to be a great addition for depth to a team that hopes to finish above .500 for the first time since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo: <a id=\"0O1tMWrES5JTgABC6XBcGA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1179642386\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'0O1tMWrES5JTgABC6XBcGA',sig:'3YdFFOtCZVo0TmTD3izOWhHFVzG0SaROSQAT54h7wCY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1179642386',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending 2019 with the Houston Astros, Wade Miley has found a new home. According to reports, he has agreed to a two-year contract with the Cincinnati Reds that will pay him $15 million. Free-agent left-hander Wade Miley in agreement with #Reds on two-year, $15M contract, pending physical, sources tell The Athletic. Deal will reunite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2758,"featured_media":27433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,2,35],"tags":[131,2333,922,650,483,2198],"class_list":["post-27427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reds","category-featured","category-news","tag-anthony-desclafani","tag-derek-johnson","tag-luis-castillo","tag-sonny-gray","tag-trevor-bauer","tag-wade-miley"],"modified_by":"DJ Kleinbard","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}