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D-backs GM: Miller feeling pressure of big trade
- Updated: May 2, 2016
11:48 AM ET
Shelby Miller is still without a win a month into his time with the Arizona Diamondbacks. The team’s general manager thinks the right-hander is putting too much pressure on himself after being the centerpiece of a major December trade.
Diamondbacks general manager Dave Stewart told SiriusXM MLB Network Radio on Sunday morning that Miller is trying to live up to the hefty price the team paid to acquire him from the Atlanta Braves. The Diamondbacks’ package to Atlanta included shortstop prospect Dansby Swanson, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2015 draft, outfielder Ender Inciarte and pitching prospect Aaron Blair.
“Shelby Miller, I think it’s more, really, he’s just feeling some pressure: of the trade, the players that we traded for him, trying to fit in,” Stewart told MLB Network Radio. “I think the whole ordeal has just been different for him than it was leaving St. Louis going to Atlanta.”
Miller, 25, lost an National League-worst 17 games last season with the Braves after they acquired him in a trade that sent outfielder Jason …
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