Bryce Austen Miller...Graduated from New Braunfels High School (Texas) in 2017, where he pitched for the New Braunfels HS Unicorns...Played one season at Blinn College in 2018 and three seasons at Texas A&M (2019-21)...Originally selected by Miami in the 28th round of the 2018 MLB Draft, but did not sign.
2024
Went 12-8 with a 2.94 ERA (59 ER, 180.1 IP), 45 walks and 171 strikeouts in 31 starts, posting a 0.976 WHIP and limiting opponents to a .200 batting average...Became second Mariners pitcher in franchise history with a sub-3.00 ERA and sub-1.00 WHIP in a qualified season, joining Félix Hernández (2.14 ERA, 0.915 WHIP) in 2014...Only the seventh qualified season in Mariners history with a sub-3.00 ERA and the first in 10 years, joining Randy Johnson (twice: 1995, ‘97), Félix Hernández (three times: 2009-10, ‘14) and Hisashi Iwakuma (2013)...In his age-25 season, Miller was third-youngest to do it, after Hernández at ages 23-24 in 2009-10...In 16 starts at T-Mobile Park, went 6-3 with a 1.96 ERA (21 ER, 96.1 IP), 23 walks and 111 strikeouts...His 1.96 home ERA was second-lowest in a season in Mariners history (min. 80 home IP), trailing only Randy Johnson’s 1.89 home ERA (24 ER, 114.0 IP) in 1997...Miller’s 1.96 home ERA ranked first in the AL and second in MLB in 2024, trailing only Atlanta's Reynaldo López and his 1.78 home ERA (16 ER, 81.0 IP)...Tallied nine starts of 6.0+ innings without allowing a run, most in the Majors and ranking two ahead of teammate Logan Gilbert, Dylan Cease (SD) and Zack Wheeler (PHI)...The nine outings were also most in a season in Mariners history, surpassing Hisashi Iwakuma (eight) in 2013...His 2.94 ERA ranked sixth in the American League behind Tarik Skubal (DET, 2.39), Ronel Blanco (HOU, 2.80), Framber Valdez (HOU, 2.91) and Corbin Burnes (BAL, 2.92)...His 0.98 WHIP ranked third in the AL behind teammate Logan Gilbert (0.89) and Tarik Skubal (DET, 0.92)...Limited opponents to a .200 batting average (131-for-654), ranking third in the AL behind Ronel Blanco (HOU, .190) and teammate Logan Gilbert (.196)...Over his final nine starts of the season (beginning Aug. 9), went 4-1 with a 1.34 ERA (eight ER, 53.2 IP), 15 walks and 58 strikeouts, with the 1.34 ERA ranking second in AL in that span (min. 40 IP) to Bowden Francis (TOR, 1.33)...Over his final 13 starts (beginning July 10), went 6-1 with a 1.75 ERA (15 ER, 77.1 IP), 16 walks and 74 strikeouts...The 1.75 ERA led the AL during that span (min. 50 IP) and ranked second in MLB to Blake Snell (SF, 1.31)...His 18 quality starts were tied for 14th-most in the Majors...Along with teammate and fellow second-year pitcher Bryan Woo, became fourth duo in MLB history to each have a sub-3.00 ERA and a sub-1.00 WHIP within their first two career seasons (min. 100.0 IP), and the first in 110 years...Miller and Woo joined Dutch Leonard and Ernie Shore of the 1914 Boston Red Sox, Walter Johnson and Bill Burns of the 1908 Washington Senators and Henry Boyle and Perry Werden of the 1884 St. Louis Maroons...Matched a career-high 10 strikeouts on two occasions: April 29 vs. Atlanta and Aug. 26 vs. Tampa Bay...He and Logan Gilbert (10 SO on Aug. 27) became first Mariners teammates to record 10+ strikeouts in back-to-back team games since Miller and Gilbert also did it on Aug. 6 and 8, 2023...According to Baseball Savant, ranked in the 99th percentile in off-speed run value and in the 97th percentile in fastball run value...Limited left-handed batters to a .208/.274/.389/.663 slash line, a year after lefties slashed .303/.358/.558/.917 against him during his rookie year in 2023...On Sept. 23 at Houston, became the first visiting Texas-born pitcher to record multiple 6.0+ scoreless outings with two or fewer hits allowed in Houston, and the second pitcher overall, joining Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan (10 times, all with Houston).
2023
Made 25 starts, going 8-7 with a 4.32 ERA (63 ER, 131.1 IP), 26 walks, 18 home runs allowed and 119 strikeouts in his rookie campaign...Made his MLB debut on May 2 at Oakland where he took a perfect game into the sixth inning...the 16-consecutive batters retired in a pitcher’s MLB debut are the most since 1961 (h/t Elias Sports)...he finished that game with six innings pitched and allowed one run on two hits with 10 strikeouts....Became just the third pitcher in MLB history to strike out 10 batters without issuing a walk in their Major League debut, joining RHP Johnny Cueto-CIN (April 3, 2008) and Stephen Strasburg-WSN (June 8, 2010)...became the 30th pitcher in MLB history to strikeout 10+ in their ML debut...also set a franchise record for most strikeouts in a debut moving ahead of Enrique Romo, who struck out nine on April 7, 1977...First pitcher with a sub-1.00 ERA & 15 strikeouts over his first two career games since Kazuhisa Ishii-LAD (2002)…he is the only pitcher in MLB history to do that while allowing no more than one walk...Became the second pitcher in MLB history to go at least six innings and allow two-or-fewer hits in each of his first two career games, joining Ken Cloude-SEA (1997)…via Sarah Langs.
2022
Went 7-4 with a 3.16 ERA (47 ER, 133.2 IP) with 43 walks and 163 strikeouts in 27 games (26 starts) between Double-A Arkansas (10 GS), High-A Everett (16 G, 15 GS) and Low-A Modesto (1 GS)...named Northwest League Pitcher of the Week for April 18-24... named Mariners Minor League Pitcher of the Month for May.
2021
Spent first pro season with Low-A Modesto, making 5 appearances (3 starts).
