Free agency is notoriously unpredictable, but last offseason, if there was one Chicago Cubs move I had absolutely locked up in my mind, it was that they would be signing lefty Hoby Milner. The guy was coming off a down year (check), throws from a funky angle (check), has pitches that move in really weird ways (check), succeeds largely by inducing bad contact and lots of groundballs (check), and had spent years pitching for Craig Counsell in Milwaukee (check).
Obviously the Cubs were going to sign him.
And then they didn’t. The Rangers did for $2.5 million, and he got to pitch in his hometown area. Fine. Whatever. The Cubs wound up with Caleb Thielbar and Drew Pomeranz as the primary lefties in the bullpen, and that worked out just fine.
But Milner is a free agent again, and THIS TIME, it’s actually happening:
Source: The Cubs have signed free agent reliever Hoby Milner.
— Michael Cerami (@Michael_Cerami) December 11, 2025No word on the terms yet, but I’d anticipate a relatively modest one-year big league deal.
For the second straight season, Hoby Milner’s results were worse than his peripherals, mostly because of a super low left-on-base rate, which is TYPICALLY something that normalizes year to year. In other words, if Milner pitches exactly as well in 2026 as he did in 2025, he’d probably see a much better ERA.
(via FanGraphs)One more connection to totally shock out … Hoby Milner is a Tread Athletics guy:
At 34 years old, Tread Athlete Hoby Milner is in the middle of his best season to date. His current ranks among all qualified MLB relievers are as follows:1.5 fWAR (5th) ?2.23 ERA (23rd)2.18 FIP (7th)0.00 HR/9 (1st)?#TreadFam pic.twitter.com/3jkQJtQYSQ
— Tread Athletics (@TreadHQ) July 27, 2025So, yeah, the fit for the 34-year-old lefty is just perfect. The Cubs need arms in the bullpen, and Milner is just about perfect to be one of the lefties in the middle innings. Having already added Phil Maton, this is a strong start to the bullpen rebuild for the Cubs (and the minor league flier on Collin Snider, too). Fun fact: Maton finished his season with the Rangers, too.
More on this signing soon, and hopefully more coming among the later-innings types for the Cubs.
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