November 28, 2020

Miller Passes

Former pitcher Bob Miller died today, Saturday, at the age of 94:

Miller pitched two seasons for the Titans in 1947-48 before signing with Philadelphia. In 10 seasons with the Phillies, he was 42-42 with 14 saves and a 3.96 ERA in 261 appearances, including 69 starts.

ESPN.com

My thoughts go out to his family and friends.

Miller oscillated between starting and relief, some years mostly starting, and in other years working almost always out of the bullpen. His best seasons came in 1950 where he was used mostly as a starter on a Phillies team that won the pennant and 1955 when he made 40 appearances, all in relief. His strength was a low walk rate of 2.7 batters per nine inning, but his weakness was a strikeout rate at the same level. That led to a high number of hits allowed by inning pitched.

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