Bobby Miller (baseball)


Robert Anthony Miller is an American college baseball pitcher in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. He played college baseball for the Louisville Cardinals. He was selected 29th overall by the Dodgers in the 2020 Major League Baseball draft.

Career

Miller attended McHenry West High School in McHenry, Illinois, where he played baseball. In 2016, his junior season, he went 5-2 with a 1.98 ERA and 76 strikeouts over 55 innings. After his senior year in 2017, he was selected by the Baltimore Orioles in the 38th round of the 2017 Major League Baseball draft, but did not sign and instead enrolled at the University of Louisville where he played college baseball.
As a freshman at Louisville in 2018, Miller went 6-1 with a 2.97 ERA over 17 games, earning Freshman All-American honors and spots on the American Athletic Conference Third Team and All-Freshman Team. After the 2018 season, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod Baseball League. In 2019, his sophomore year at Louisville, he pitched to a 7-1 record with a 3.83 ERA over twenty games 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 COVID-19 pandemic.
Miller was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers with the 29th overall pick in the 2020 Major League Baseball draft. He signed with the Dodgers for a $2.2 million signing bonus.