Rafael Montero DET RP R

Born: 10/17/1990 Age: 34

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

Thu 8/28	Fri 8/29	Sat 8/30
---	@KCR 8:10 PM EDT	@KCR 7:15 PM EDT

Positions
RP
2026 Earned Positions
RP

All Leagues
Average $0.00 Median $0.00
H2H FanGraphs Points
Average $0.00 Median $0.00

All Leagues
Average $1.00 Median $1.00
H2H FanGraphs Points
Average $1.20 Median $1.00

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

2025 OPL Round 7
OPL Roster%
0.00%
OPL Average Salary
$0.00

August 28, 2025 9:35 AM : Montero tossed 2.2 scoreless innings of relief in Wednesday's 7-0 loss to the Athletics. He walked one batter and struck out four.
Analysis: After starter Casey Mize was tagged for five runs in just 3.1 innings, Montero came on and gave the Tigers some valuable long relief. It was the veteran righty's longest outing of the season, and he's now covered two or more innings four times this year. Montero has been fairly effective in Detroit since coming over before the trade deadline, posting a 3.48 ERA and 1.06 WHIP across 10.1 innings with his new team.

Year	Team	G	GS	IP	SV	HLD	K	H	BB	HBP	HR	P/IP	Pts
2014	NYM	10	8	44.1	0	0	42	44	23	0	8	2.94	130.27
2015	NYM	5	1	10.0	0	1	13	9	5	0	0	6.56	65.60
2016	NYM	9	3	19.0	0	0	20	23	16	0	4	1.24	23.60
2017	NYM	34	18	119.0	0	0	114	141	67	5	12	3.18	378.40
2019	TEX	22	0	29.0	0	7	34	23	5	2	5	5.8	168.30
2020	TEX	17	0	17.2	8	0	19	12	6	1	2	7.47	131.93
2021	SEA	40	0	43.1	7	4	37	56	15	5	4	4.4	190.87
2021	HOU	4	0	6.0	0	0	5	3	2	0	0	6.77	40.60
2022	HOU	71	0	68.1	14	23	73	47	23	2	3	8.48	579.57
2023	HOU	68	0	67.1	1	10	79	74	29	3	11	4.12	277.57
2024	HOU	41	0	38.1	0	10	23	35	19	3	8	2.98	114.27
2025	HOU	3	0	4.0	0	0	5	3	2	0	0	6.45	25.80
2025	ATL	36	0	34.1	0	7	34	27	21	0	3	5.24	179.97
2025	DET	7	0	10.1	0	0	8	4	7	0	1	4.72	48.77

Year	Team	G	GS	IP	SV	HLD	K	H	BB	HBP	HR	P/IP	Pts
2011	NYM (R)	4	4	18.0	0	0	20	7	0	0	1	7.93	142.70
2011	NYM (R)	7	4	31.0	1	1	32	28	6	5	0	6.34	196.60
2011	NYM (R)	4	4	17.0	0	0	9	17	6	0	2	3.35	57.00
2011	NYM (A-)	2	0	5.0	0	0	5	3	1	0	1	4.78	23.90
2012	NYM (A)	12	12	71.1	0	0	54	61	8	1	4	5.62	401.07
2012	NYM (A+)	8	8	50.2	0	0	56	35	11	2	2	6.56	332.33
2013	NYM (AA)	11	11	66.2	0	0	72	51	10	0	2	6.75	450.13
2013	NYM (AAA)	16	16	88.2	0	0	78	85	25	0	4	5.27	466.93
2014	NYM (R)	1	1	2.0	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	6.5	13.00
2014	NYM (A+)	1	1	4.0	0	0	4	2	1	0	0	7.35	29.40
2014	NYM (AAA)	16	16	80.0	0	0	80	69	34	1	4	5.23	418.40
2015	NYM (R)	3	2	6.0	0	1	6	5	0	0	0	7.9	47.40
2015	NYM (A+)	2	2	5.0	0	0	1	5	3	0	0	3.4	17.00
2015	NYM (AAA)	2	2	7.2	0	0	7	8	1	0	1	4.52	34.63
2016	NYM (AA)	9	9	49.0	0	0	40	35	19	4	4	4.76	233.40
2016	NYM (AAA)	16	16	80.0	0	0	68	111	40	0	12	2.15	171.80
2017	NYM (AAA)	5	5	29.0	0	0	37	18	12	0	3	5.82	168.90
2019	TEX (R)	5	3	7.0	0	0	12	2	0	0	0	10.09	70.60
2019	TEX (AA)	5	2	9.0	0	1	15	15	2	1	0	5.84	52.60
2019	TEX (AAA)	1	0	2.1	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	10.83	25.27
2024	HOU (AAA)	17	0	16.1	0	3	24	13	9	0	2	5.85	95.47

Date	Team	Opponent	Win	IP	TBF	R	ER	H	K	BB	HR	Pts
Aug 27, 2025	DET	@ATH	0	2.2	9	0	0	0	4	1	0	24.73
Aug 24, 2025	DET	KCR	0	1.0	5	0	0	0	0	2	0	1.40
Aug 20, 2025	DET	HOU	0	1.0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	9.40
Aug 14, 2025	DET	@MIN	1	1.1	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	13.87
Aug 10, 2025	DET	LAA	0	1.2	7	2	2	1	0	3	1	-11.57
Aug 9, 2025	DET	LAA	0	1.2	6	0	0	1	1	0	0	11.73
Aug 5, 2025	DET	MIN	0	1.0	5	2	2	2	0	1	0	-0.80
Jul 29, 2025	ATL	@KCR	0	1.0	4	0	0	1	0	1	0	1.80
Jul 28, 2025	ATL	@KCR	0	0.0	4	3	3	2	0	2	0	-11.20
Jul 25, 2025	ATL	@TEX	0	1.1	8	4	4	2	1	2	0	0.67
Totals			1	12.2	55	11	11	9	9	12	1	40.03

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
December 20, 2017 1:50 PM	add	Wallbangers 🍻	$5
January 15, 2018 7:53 PM	cut	Wallbangers 🍻	$3
August 18, 2020 12:10 PM	add	Bozzs	$7
September 22, 2020 5:52 PM	cut	Bozzs	$4
March 21, 2021 7:53 PM	add	Ding Dong Johnsons	$8
July 3, 2021 12:29 AM	cut	Ding Dong Johnsons	$4
May 13, 2022 10:38 AM	add	You Down With OBP?	$1
October 14, 2022 1:55 AM	increase	You Down With OBP?	$3
January 31, 2023 5:50 PM	cut	You Down With OBP?	$0
March 5, 2023 9:50 PM	add	One Magic LOOGY	$3
March 8, 2023 7:26 PM	move	King Kelly (from One Magic LOOGY)	$3
October 12, 2023 11:25 AM	increase	King Kelly	$5
October 10, 2024 12:17 AM	increase	King Kelly	$7
January 3, 2025 8:52 AM	cut	King Kelly	$0

Date	Proposing Team	Proposing Team Gives	Accepting Team	Accepting Team Gives
May 12, 2023 12:34 PM	Mo Vaughn	Jorge Mateo BAL 2B/SS/OF R $3 60IL Rhys Hoskins PHI 1B R $8 10IL Ty France SEA 1B R $5	You You You Ottoneu	Rafael Montero HOU RP R $3 Bobby Witt Jr. KCR SS R $7
March 10, 2023 11:09 AM	Judgement Day	Rafael Montero HOU RP R $4	Motion to Strike	Yoan Moncada CHW 3B S $5
March 7, 2023 7:25 PM	King Kelly	Jacob DeGrom NYM SP R $48 Sean Murphy OAK C R $7	One Magic LOOGY	Rafael Montero HOU RP R $3 Alex Bregman HOU 3B R $38 Christopher Morel CHC 2B/3B/OF R $3
January 30, 2023 2:53 PM	You You You Ottoneu	Anthony Rizzo NYY 1B L $17 Lars Nootbaar STL OF L $4 Brendan Donovan STL 2B/SS/3B/OF L $8 10IL Kerry Carpenter DET OF L $5	Mo Vaughn	Nathan Eovaldi BOS SP R $5 15IL Tyler Anderson LAD SP L $4 Merrill Kelly ARI SP R $3 Rafael Montero HOU RP R $3 Evan Phillips LAD RP R $4 60IL Giovanny Gallegos LAD AAA RP R $5 MILB 60IL
January 5, 2023 7:57 PM	Son of Johnny Dickshot	Rafael Montero HOU RP R $5	👾👽Freak-a-Zoids👽👾	Jose Miranda MIN AAA 1B/3B R $4
August 26, 2022 8:33 AM	🦥 Docile Irish ☘️	Bailey Ober MIN SP R $2	La Flama Blanca	Rafael Montero HOU RP R $1
August 2, 2022 1:05 PM	🐍 Slïppy Snéks 🐍	Jurickson Profar SDP OF S $2 Rafael Montero HOU RP R $1 Adolis García TEX OF R $4	Bully Corp	Chris Sale BOS SP L $10 60IL Tyler Rogers SFG RP R $2
July 6, 2022 12:36 PM	Randos	Mike Clevinger CHW AAA SP/RP R $7 Dylan Floro ATH AAA RP R $1 $6 loan	Lumpy Gravies	Rafael Montero HOU RP R $1 Hunter Dozier LAA AAA 1B/3B R $1
July 3, 2022 9:11 PM	Mo Vaughn	Esteury Ruiz LAD AAA OF R $7	BesmerGate-irez	Rafael Montero HOU RP R $1 Ryan Helsley STL RP R $1
June 16, 2022 11:36 PM	Mo Vaughn	Rafael Montero HOU RP R $1 Ezequiel Duran TEX 1B/SS/3B/OF R $5	BesmerGate-irez	Jhoan Duran MIN RP R $4 Dakota Hudson LAA AAA SP/RP R $3 Orelvis Martinez TOR AAA 2B/3B R $2 $3 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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