Brad Miller’s followed up his dreadful (injury-marred) 2017 with a slightly better, yet drastically underwhelming 2018. This is now the second consecutive year that Brad Miller hasn’t shown much at the plate, which is essentially what the Rays are looking for.
The .238/.308/.404 line isn’t a marked improvement, but it still shows that the injury Miller played through last year most definitely prevented him from giving us a truer sense of who he could be after that 2016 power surge. Miller’s walk rate last year shot up to 15.5%, and his EV dropped to 89 mph. He was able to develop better patience at the plate that the Rays hoped could probably carry over to 2018.