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Dustin May Declines $20 Million Mutual Option With Brewers
Dustin May declined his $20 million mutual option with Milwaukee and will receive a $500,000 buyout.
Mutual options require both the player and team to agree, and they are rarely exercised by both sides.
May joined the Brewers after the Cardinals traded him and reliever JoJo Romero to Milwaukee during the season.
He posted a 4.70 ERA across 145 2/3 innings overall, with a 5.65 ERA in his time with the Brewers.
His fastball averaged nearly 97 mph, and he set a career high for innings pitched.
May is now a free agent, and his representatives may seek a two- or three-year deal.
Milwaukee is unlikely to bring him back, while the Cardinals could consider a reunion.
Dustin May declined his end of a $20 million mutual option with the Milwaukee Brewers.
He will receive a $500,000 buyout and return to the open market.
May posted a 5.65 ERA in 36 2/3 regular-season innings with Milwaukee.
He finished the year with a combined 4.70 ERA and a career-high 145 2/3 innings.
- Who
- Dustin May and the Milwaukee Brewers.
- What
- May declined his end of a $20 million mutual option. He will receive a $500,000 buyout and enter free agency.
- When
- October 30, 2026.
- Where
- Milwaukee, with the Brewers.
- Why
- Not stated.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
May signed a one-year, $12.5 million free-agent deal with the St. Louis Cardinals.
The Cardinals traded May to the Brewers alongside reliever JoJo Romero.
May declined his end of the $20 million mutual option with Milwaukee.
- Mutual option
- $20 million
- Buyout
- $500,000
- Brewers regular-season innings
- 36 2/3
- Brewers regular-season ERA
- 5.65
- Season innings
- Career-high 145 2/3
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Dustin May declined his mutual option with the Brewers and is a free agent
I’m not certain the fit will work for either party but I would expect May and the Cardinals to have at least a conversation about a reunion.