Rafael Montero DET RP R

Born: 10/17/1990 Age: 34

On MLB 40-man: YES
Acquired: Trade (ATL) Jul'25

Mon 8/11	Tue 8/12	Wed 8/13
@CHW 7:40 PM EDT	@CHW 7:40 PM EDT	@CHW 2:10 PM EDT

Positions
RP
2026 Earned Positions
RP

All Leagues
Average $1.00 Median $1.00
SABR Points
Average $0.00 Median $0.00

All Leagues
Average $1.00 Median $1.00
SABR Points
Average $2.80 Median $2.50

Roster%
0.31%
Change
7Day 0%
30Day 0%

2025 OPL Round 6
OPL Roster%
0.00%
OPL Average Salary
$0.00

August 10, 2025 10:38 AM : Montero tossed 1.2 scoreless innings of relief in Saturday's 7-4 loss to the Angels. He allowed a hit and struck out one.
Analysis: After allowing two earned runs in an inning during his team debut Tuesday, Montero was better in his second outing since coming over at the trade deadline. The righty is still carrying a 5.49 ERA overall, making him hard to trust in any fantasy format given his middle relief role. Montero should continue to see medium-leverage work for the Tigers.

Year	Team	G	GS	IP	SV	HLD	K	BB	HBP	HR	P/IP	Pts
2014	NYM	10	8	44.1	0	0	42	23	0	8	2.99	132.67
2015	NYM	5	1	10.0	0	1	13	5	0	0	6.5	65.00
2016	NYM	9	3	19.0	0	0	20	16	0	4	1.84	35.00
2017	NYM	34	18	119.0	0	0	114	67	5	12	3.79	451.00
2019	TEX	22	0	29.0	0	7	34	5	2	5	5.34	155.00
2020	TEX	17	0	17.2	8	0	19	6	1	2	6.75	119.33
2021	SEA	40	0	43.1	7	4	37	15	5	4	5.3	229.67
2021	HOU	4	0	6.0	0	0	5	2	0	0	5.67	34.00
2022	HOU	71	0	68.1	14	23	73	23	2	3	7.84	535.67
2023	HOU	68	0	67.1	1	10	79	29	3	11	4.47	300.67
2024	HOU	41	0	38.1	0	10	23	19	3	8	2.81	107.67
2025	HOU	3	0	4.0	0	0	5	2	0	0	6	24.00
2025	ATL	36	0	34.1	0	7	34	21	0	3	4.83	165.67
2025	DET	2	0	2.2	0	0	1	1	0	0	4.62	12.33

Year	Team	G	GS	IP	SV	HLD	K	BB	HBP	HR	P/IP	Pts
2011	NYM (R)	4	4	18.0	0	0	20	0	0	1	6.5	117.00
2011	NYM (R)	7	4	31.0	1	1	32	6	5	0	6.29	195.00
2011	NYM (R)	4	4	17.0	0	0	9	6	0	2	3.47	59.00
2011	NYM (A-)	2	0	5.0	0	0	5	1	0	1	3.8	19.00
2012	NYM (A)	12	12	71.1	0	0	54	8	1	4	5.41	385.67
2012	NYM (A+)	8	8	50.2	0	0	56	11	2	2	5.93	300.33
2013	NYM (AA)	11	11	66.2	0	0	72	10	0	2	6.32	421.33
2013	NYM (AAA)	16	16	88.2	0	0	78	25	0	4	5.33	472.33
2014	NYM (R)	1	1	2.0	0	0	3	0	0	0	8	16.00
2014	NYM (A+)	1	1	4.0	0	0	4	1	0	0	6.25	25.00
2014	NYM (AAA)	16	16	80.0	0	0	80	34	1	4	5.04	403.00
2015	NYM (R)	3	2	6.0	0	1	6	0	0	0	7.67	46.00
2015	NYM (A+)	2	2	5.0	0	0	1	3	0	0	3.6	18.00
2015	NYM (AAA)	2	2	7.2	0	0	7	1	0	1	4.74	36.33
2016	NYM (AA)	9	9	49.0	0	0	40	19	4	4	4.16	204.00
2016	NYM (AAA)	16	16	80.0	0	0	68	40	0	12	3.25	260.00
2017	NYM (AAA)	5	5	29.0	0	0	37	12	0	3	4.97	144.00
2019	TEX (R)	5	3	7.0	0	0	12	0	0	0	8.43	59.00
2019	TEX (AA)	5	2	9.0	0	1	15	2	1	0	7.78	70.00
2019	TEX (AAA)	1	0	2.1	0	0	4	0	0	0	8.43	19.67
2024	HOU (AAA)	17	0	16.1	0	3	24	9	0	2	5.43	88.67

Date	Team	Opponent	Hold	IP	TBF	R	ER	H	K	BB	HR	Pts
Aug 9, 2025	DET	LAA	0	1.2	6	0	0	1	1	0	0	10.33
Aug 5, 2025	DET	MIN	0	1.0	5	2	2	2	0	1	0	2.00
Jul 29, 2025	ATL	@KCR	0	1.0	4	0	0	1	0	1	0	2.00
Jul 28, 2025	ATL	@KCR	0	0.0	4	3	3	2	0	2	0	-6.00
Jul 25, 2025	ATL	@TEX	0	1.1	8	4	4	2	1	2	0	2.67
Jul 21, 2025	ATL	SFG	0	1.0	4	1	1	1	1	0	1	-6.00
Jul 19, 2025	ATL	NYY	1	1.0	5	0	0	0	1	1	0	8.00
Jul 12, 2025	ATL	@STL	0	1.0	4	1	1	1	1	0	1	-6.00
Jul 11, 2025	ATL	@STL	1	1.0	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	9.00
Jul 9, 2025	ATL	@ATH	0	1.0	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	7.00
Totals			2	10.0	48	11	11	12	6	7	2	23.00

Date	Level	Team	Opponent	Win	IP	TBF	R	ER	H	K	BB	HR
Sep 20, 2024	AAA	SUG	@SAC	0	0.2	6	2	2	4	1	0	0
Sep 18, 2024	AAA	SUG	@SAC	1	1.0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sep 15, 2024	AAA	SUG	RNO	0	1.0	7	1	1	1	1	3	1
Sep 14, 2024	AAA	SUG	RNO	0	0.2	3	0	0	1	1	0	0
Sep 12, 2024	AAA	SUG	RNO	0	1.0	3	0	0	1	2	0	0
Sep 10, 2024	AAA	SUG	RNO	0	1.0	4	1	1	1	2	0	1
Sep 8, 2024	AAA	SUG	@OKC	0	1.0	3	0	0	0	0	1	0
Sep 6, 2024	AAA	SUG	@OKC	0	1.0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sep 3, 2024	AAA	SUG	@OKC	0	1.0	5	0	0	1	0	1	0
Aug 30, 2024	AAA	SUG	SL	0	1.0	5	0	0	1	2	1	0
Totals				1	9.1	42	4	4	10	9	6	2

Date	Transaction Type	Team	Salary
April 2, 2017 6:12 AM	add	The Brain Slug(ger)s 🦠	$1
April 21, 2017 10:46 AM	cut	The Brain Slug(ger)s 🦠	$1
August 13, 2020 9:56 AM	add	SABRtooth Beagles 🐶	$8
September 30, 2020 7:30 PM	increase	SABRtooth Beagles 🐶	$10
April 18, 2021 12:56 PM	cut	SABRtooth Beagles 🐶	$5
May 21, 2021 10:00 AM	add	SABRtooth Beagles 🐶	$5
May 21, 2021 10:22 AM	cut	SABRtooth Beagles 🐶	$3
June 23, 2021 1:01 AM	add	SABRtooth Beagles 🐶	$3
June 24, 2021 2:09 PM	cut	SABRtooth Beagles 🐶	$2
May 19, 2022 12:45 AM	add	The Brain Slug(ger)s 🦠	$2
October 14, 2022 1:56 AM	increase	The Brain Slug(ger)s 🦠	$4
January 30, 2023 5:28 PM	cut	The Brain Slug(ger)s 🦠	$0
February 21, 2023 7:40 PM	add	SABRflower Seed Finger ☝️	$4
May 19, 2023 12:27 PM	cut	SABRflower Seed Finger ☝️	$2
June 29, 2023 10:21 AM	add	SABRflower Seed Finger ☝️	$2
June 29, 2023 11:58 AM	cut	SABRflower Seed Finger ☝️	$1

Date	Proposing Team	Proposing Team Gives	Accepting Team	Accepting Team Gives
January 25, 2023 8:23 PM	SABRmagician✨	Joc Pederson SFG Util L $10 Logan O'Hoppe LAA C R $3	Fly Eli's Evian Showers	Rafael Montero HOU RP R $3 Brendan Donovan STL 2B/SS/3B/OF L $3
January 20, 2023 4:13 PM	Totes McGoats Appreciation Society	Ian Happ CHC OF S $9	Greene Dot Stables	Rafael Montero HOU RP R $3
December 6, 2022 2:35 PM	LT Titans ⚂	Rafael Montero HOU RP R $4	RV Lumberhacks	Joc Pederson SFG Util L $3
August 9, 2022 7:43 AM	Jobu's Cigar and Rum	Jose Barrero BAL AAA SS/OF R $3	Lou Brown's Shitburgers	Rafael Montero HOU RP R $1
July 18, 2022 10:47 AM	Jack Burton's Porkchop Express	Rafael Montero HOU RP R $1 Edward Olivares PIT AAA OF R $1 Spencer Strider ATL SP R $4	Barry Zito's Roommate	Kris Bryant COL 1B/OF R $33 60IL John Schreiber BOS RP R $3 $34 loan
July 14, 2022 12:19 PM	Nashville Whitesox	Rafael Montero HOU RP R $3 Blake Snell SDP SP L $14 Justin Steele CHC SP L $1 60IL Christopher Morel CHC 2B/3B/OF R $1	Justice for Chaim	Max Scherzer NYM SP R $40 Ranger Suarez PHI SP L $5 $16 loan
January 18, 2016 12:32 PM	Coastal Empire	Mark Appel PHI ST RP R $4	Skunky Skittlebrau	Rafael Montero NYM RP R $4
December 2, 2014 2:14 PM	Dipoto's Doppelganger	Clayton Kershaw LAD SP L $62 Robinson Cano SEA Util L $39	The Columbus Comebackers	Michael Cuddyer COL Util R $10 Drew Smyly TBR SP/RP L $3 Rafael Montero NYM RP R $3 Corey Seager LAD SS L $2 Masahiro Tanaka NYY RP R $27 Carlos Rodon CHW SP L $7
November 25, 2014 1:31 PM	Lucky Strikes 🍀	Mike Trout LAA OF R $68	Reggie Dwight 🕶️🎹	Michael Pineda NYY RP R $3 Michael Cuddyer COL Util R $9 Miguel Sano MIN 3B R $4 Andrew Heaney MIA SP L $6 Rafael Montero NYM RP R $3
August 14, 2014 8:11 AM	TBD	Jed Lowrie OAK Util S $10 Edwin Escobar CHC AAA RP L $1 Rafael Montero NYM RP R $2 Carlos Rodon CHW SP L $3	The Lou Browns	Oswaldo Arcia ARI AAA Util L $5 Dustin Pedroia BOS AAA Util R $43 $30 loan

Rafael Montero DET RP R

Born: 10/17/1990 Age: 34

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On MLB 40-man: YES
Acquired: Trade (ATL) Jul'25

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