Robert Anthony Miller (born April 5, 1999) is an American

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in the

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organization. He played

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for the

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. He was selected 29th overall by the Dodgers in the

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Amateur career

Miller attended

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, where he played

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. In 2016, his junior season, he went 5–2 with a 1.98

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and 76

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s over 55

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s. After his senior year in 2017, he was selected by the

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in the 38th round of the

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, but did not sign and instead enrolled at the

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where he played

. As a freshman at Louisville in 2018, Miller went 6–1 with a 2.97 ERA over 17 games (nine starts), earning Freshman All-American honors and spots on the

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Third Team and All-Freshman Team. After the 2018 season, he played

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with the

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of the

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. In 2019, his sophomore year at Louisville, he pitched to a 7–1 record with a 3.83 ERA over twenty games (12 starts) and eighty innings. That summer, he spent time playing for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team. As a junior in 2020, he went 2–0 with a 2.31 ERA over four starts, striking out 34 over innings before the college baseball season was cut short due to the

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Professional career

The

selected Miller in the first round, with the 29th overall pick, in the

. He signed with the Dodgers for a $2.2 million signing bonus. He did not play a minor league game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season caused by the

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. Miller made his professional debut as the starting pitcher on

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in 2021 for the

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of the

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, striking out five batters over three innings while allowing only two singles and a walk. On July 24, Miller pitched five innings of a

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against the

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alongside

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, Jake Cantleberry, and Cameron Gibbens. Miller appeared in 14 games (11 starts) for the Loons, compiling a 2–2 record and 3.06 ERA while striking out 56 over 46 innings. On September 8, he was promoted to the

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of the

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, and pitched innings for them to end the season. He was selected to play in the

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for the

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after the season where he was named to the Fall Stars Game. He returned to Tulsa to begin the 2022 season, where he made 19 starts and went 6-6 with a 4.45 ERA and 117 strikeouts over 91 innings and was selected to represent the Dodgers at the 2022

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. Miller was promoted to the

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of the Triple-A

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on August 15. He made four starts for Oklahoma City, with a 1–1 record and 3.38 ERA.

References

External links

Louisville Cardinals bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Bobby 1999 births Living people Baseball players from Illinois People from Elk Grove Village, Illinois Baseball pitchers Louisville Cardinals baseball players Brewster Whitecaps players Great Lakes Loons players Minor league baseball players Tulsa Drillers players Glendale Desert Dogs players United States national baseball team players Oklahoma City Dodgers players