If we’ve learned one thing about Jed Hoyer’s pitching preferences, it’s that he’ll take funky outlier qualities over velocity every day of the week and twice on Sunday. That is certainly the case with former veteran lefty reliever Hoby Milner, who makes up for a fastball that could barely activate a flux capacitor with a sidearm delivery that leverages extreme angles for major east-west pitch shapes.
This signing, first reported by Bleacher Nation’s Michael Cerami, gives the Cubs a lefty specialist who can be deployed situationally to take advantage of his extreme splits. Milner has limited left-handed batters to a .