6 days ago
The Detroit Tigers have released a veteran catcher.
The Tigers released nine-year veteran Tomás Nido from Triple-A Toledo on Tuesday, July 21. In his place, the Tigers signed veteran catcher Carlos Pérez to a minor-league deal on Wednesday, July 22, ******* igning him to Toledo.
Nido, who made his MLB debut with the New York Mets in 2017, originally signed a contract with the Tigers on Sept. 17, 2024. Nido appeared in 10 games for the Tigers in 2025, putting up a .704 OPS in 37 plate appearances in April and May.
KEIDER: Let's fully appreciate what Keider Montero is doing for surging Tigers
He re-signed with the Tigers ahead of the 2025 season and played 43 games with Toledo, but didn't break through to the majors as Eduardo Valencia emerged as the team's backup catcher during All-Star catcher Dillon Dingler's brief injury spell.
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The Tigers released nine-year veteran Tomás Nido from Triple-A Toledo on Tuesday, July 21. In his place, the Tigers signed veteran catcher Carlos Pérez to a minor-league deal on Wednesday, July 22, ******* igning him to Toledo.
Nido, who made his MLB debut with the New York Mets in 2017, originally signed a contract with the Tigers on Sept. 17, 2024. Nido appeared in 10 games for the Tigers in 2025, putting up a .704 OPS in 37 plate appearances in April and May.
KEIDER: Let's fully appreciate what Keider Montero is doing for surging Tigers
He re-signed with the Tigers ahead of the 2025 season and played 43 games with Toledo, but didn't break through to the majors as Eduardo Valencia emerged as the team's backup catcher during All-Star catcher Dillon Dingler's brief injury spell.
#tigers #keider
6 days ago
The Detroit Tigers have released a veteran catcher.
The Tigers released nine-year veteran Tomás Nido from Triple-A Toledo on Tuesday, July 21. In his place, the Tigers signed veteran catcher Carlos Pérez to a minor-league deal on Wednesday, July 22, ****** igning him to Toledo.
Nido, who made his MLB debut with the New York Mets in 2017, originally signed a contract with the Tigers on Sept. 17, 2024. Nido appeared in 10 games for the Tigers in 2025, putting up a .704 OPS in 37 plate appearances in April and May.
KEIDER: Let's fully appreciate what Keider Montero is doing for surging Tigers
#toledo
The Tigers released nine-year veteran Tomás Nido from Triple-A Toledo on Tuesday, July 21. In his place, the Tigers signed veteran catcher Carlos Pérez to a minor-league deal on Wednesday, July 22, ****** igning him to Toledo.
Nido, who made his MLB debut with the New York Mets in 2017, originally signed a contract with the Tigers on Sept. 17, 2024. Nido appeared in 10 games for the Tigers in 2025, putting up a .704 OPS in 37 plate appearances in April and May.
KEIDER: Let's fully appreciate what Keider Montero is doing for surging Tigers
#toledo
7 days ago
CHICAGO – Keider Montero was brilliant, Hao-Yu Lee came up with the huge hit and the Detroit Tigers earned a 5-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field on Wednesday, July 22.
Montero, who moved from the bullpen back to the starting rotation, allowed just one run in 5⅓ innings to earn his second win on this six-game road trip.
Lee crushed a 3-run homer for the Tigers (48-54) against the formidable Cubs (57-45), likely a playoff team in the National League.
Most of the crowd at Wrigley Field went silent, but a chant was heard: "Let's go, Ti-gers!"
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#wrigley #keider #detroit #july
Montero, who moved from the bullpen back to the starting rotation, allowed just one run in 5⅓ innings to earn his second win on this six-game road trip.
Lee crushed a 3-run homer for the Tigers (48-54) against the formidable Cubs (57-45), likely a playoff team in the National League.
Most of the crowd at Wrigley Field went silent, but a chant was heard: "Let's go, Ti-gers!"
FOOT LOOSE: Kerry Carpenter injury update: Tigers slugger deals with bruised heel
#wrigley #keider #detroit #july
7 days ago
CHICAGO – Keider Montero was brilliant, Hao-Yu Lee came up with the huge hit and the Detroit Tigers earned a 5-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field on Wednesday, July 22.
Montero, who moved from the bullpen back to the starting rotation, allowed just one run in 5⅓ innings to earn his second win on this six-game road trip.
Lee crushed a 3-run homer for the Tigers (48-54) against the formidable Cubs (57-45), likely a playoff team in the National League.
Most of the crowd at Wrigley Field went silent, but a chant was heard: "Let's go, Ti-gers!"
FOOT LOOSE: Kerry Carpenter injury update: Tigers slugger deals with bruised heel
#Chicago #july
Montero, who moved from the bullpen back to the starting rotation, allowed just one run in 5⅓ innings to earn his second win on this six-game road trip.
Lee crushed a 3-run homer for the Tigers (48-54) against the formidable Cubs (57-45), likely a playoff team in the National League.
Most of the crowd at Wrigley Field went silent, but a chant was heard: "Let's go, Ti-gers!"
FOOT LOOSE: Kerry Carpenter injury update: Tigers slugger deals with bruised heel
#Chicago #july
7 days ago
CHICAGO – Keider Montero was brilliant, Hao-Yu Lee came up with the huge hit and the Detroit Tigers earned a 5-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field on Wednesday, July 22.
Montero, who moved from the bullpen back to the starting rotation, allowed just one run in 5⅓ innings to earn his second win on this six-game road trip.
Lee crushed a 3-run homer for the Tigers (48-54) against the formidable Cubs (57-45), likely a playoff team in the National League.
Most of the crowd at Wrigley Field went silent, but a chant was heard: "Let's go, Ti-gers!"
FOOT LOOSE: Kerry Carpenter injury update: Tigers slugger deals with bruised heel
#tigers #Cubs #july
Montero, who moved from the bullpen back to the starting rotation, allowed just one run in 5⅓ innings to earn his second win on this six-game road trip.
Lee crushed a 3-run homer for the Tigers (48-54) against the formidable Cubs (57-45), likely a playoff team in the National League.
Most of the crowd at Wrigley Field went silent, but a chant was heard: "Let's go, Ti-gers!"
FOOT LOOSE: Kerry Carpenter injury update: Tigers slugger deals with bruised heel
#tigers #Cubs #july
1 month ago
The White Sox offense struggled badly for a second consecutive game on Sunday afternoon, and for a while, they made Detroit starter Keider Montero look more like Tarik Skubal than Skubal himself did on Friday. Three blown leads in three days, this one a 5-4 eye-roller in 10 innings, means three losses. This is the first series sweep suffered by the Sox in more than two months, and now their fifth loss in their last six tries.
Davis Martin's fastball velocity once again sat at a worrying 93 mph, a full tick down from his average on the season, and it was reflected in other numbers. While getting ahead in the count and aggressively attacking hitters has been his bread and **** er all year, he only threw 46 of his 77 pitches for strikes, his second-lowest strike rate of the season. Detroit hitters swung at just about half of the pitches they saw, with only seven pitches flying by for called strikes. Martin got a fair number of whiffs, but he wasn't fooling too many hitters today.
Nonetheless, it was enough to get the job done. Or so it seemed.
MLB's Scott Merkin nailed the essence of this game when he noted after the fourth inning the the only batted ball of 100+ mph to that point had gotten spun for an inning-ending double play. Montero wasn't missing bats, but the Sox certainly weren't squaring him up, either. It took him just 50 pitches to get through five innings, well on his way to putting the Sox on the receiving end of a second Maddux in as many weeks.
Martin managed to match Montero through four innings before faltering in the fifth, when Colt Keith singled, stole second and scratched across the game's first run. On the other side, when the Sox last saw Montero on May 31, Detroit might have pulled him just a hair too early, as the Sox offense managed to engineer a late comeback against the Tigers bullpen. Today, manager A.J. Hinch may have left him in just a hair too long.
Davis Martin's fastball velocity once again sat at a worrying 93 mph, a full tick down from his average on the season, and it was reflected in other numbers. While getting ahead in the count and aggressively attacking hitters has been his bread and **** er all year, he only threw 46 of his 77 pitches for strikes, his second-lowest strike rate of the season. Detroit hitters swung at just about half of the pitches they saw, with only seven pitches flying by for called strikes. Martin got a fair number of whiffs, but he wasn't fooling too many hitters today.
Nonetheless, it was enough to get the job done. Or so it seemed.
MLB's Scott Merkin nailed the essence of this game when he noted after the fourth inning the the only batted ball of 100+ mph to that point had gotten spun for an inning-ending double play. Montero wasn't missing bats, but the Sox certainly weren't squaring him up, either. It took him just 50 pitches to get through five innings, well on his way to putting the Sox on the receiving end of a second Maddux in as many weeks.
Martin managed to match Montero through four innings before faltering in the fifth, when Colt Keith singled, stole second and scratched across the game's first run. On the other side, when the Sox last saw Montero on May 31, Detroit might have pulled him just a hair too early, as the Sox offense managed to engineer a late comeback against the Tigers bullpen. Today, manager A.J. Hinch may have left him in just a hair too long.
1 month ago
Justin Verlander was scheduled to come off the injured list to start on Sunday in Detroit, but instead, a new injury has popped up. He will stay on the IL after suffering a left hamstring strain while throwing a side session while the team was in Houston. In addition, Wenceel Pérez’s plyo band misadventure sends him to the injured list with a left orbital fracture. Reports suggest that his eye and eyesight are not affected, which is about the only good news out of any of this. Utility player Trei Cruz has been called up and will start in right field for the Tigers on Friday night, making his family just the seventh to put three different generation of players into the major leagues.
The Verlander news is unfortunate, but it might also be a bit of mercy. Taking Keider Montero out of the starting rotation isn’t the move right now in a baseball sense. With the Tigers likely to trade Tarik Skubal and Casey Mize, at a minimum, at the trade deadline, they might actually have more use for innings from Verlander in the final two months of the season. For all the bad of the 2026 season, there may still be an opportunity for Verlander to ride off into the sunset in front of the Detroit faithful in August and September. We’ll see if he can finally get right, or if it’s just not there anymore at age 43.
As for Pérez, the concern from the team, combined with the lack of specifics about the plyo band incident, were pretty concerning. Beyond baseball, there was fear that Pérez might have taken a shot to the eye itself. An orbital fracture isn’t great, but that will heal up with no long lasting effects, presumably. Just another bizarre injury in an absolutely cursed season.
As for Trei Cruz, while his statline in Toledo is pretty ugly, it needs to be remembered that he was injured for part of that time, and is only now a few weeks into getting regular reps. His good numbers at Triple-A in 2025 are probably more indicative of the real player. Either way, the switch hitter is going to do a whole lot of damage at the plate anyway. His game is working really pesky at-bats, situational hitting, stealing some bases, and occasionally chipping in some gap power. His real value is in the ability to play anywhere on the diamond, including shortstop, and play against left-handers as well as right-handed pitching. That might make it a little easier to get something out of a bench that has been downright horrendous in 2026.
In any case, with the season pretty well lost at this point, it’s just nice to see some new faces while we wait for Skubal and Mize to get it going enough to stabilize their trade value.
The Verlander news is unfortunate, but it might also be a bit of mercy. Taking Keider Montero out of the starting rotation isn’t the move right now in a baseball sense. With the Tigers likely to trade Tarik Skubal and Casey Mize, at a minimum, at the trade deadline, they might actually have more use for innings from Verlander in the final two months of the season. For all the bad of the 2026 season, there may still be an opportunity for Verlander to ride off into the sunset in front of the Detroit faithful in August and September. We’ll see if he can finally get right, or if it’s just not there anymore at age 43.
As for Pérez, the concern from the team, combined with the lack of specifics about the plyo band incident, were pretty concerning. Beyond baseball, there was fear that Pérez might have taken a shot to the eye itself. An orbital fracture isn’t great, but that will heal up with no long lasting effects, presumably. Just another bizarre injury in an absolutely cursed season.
As for Trei Cruz, while his statline in Toledo is pretty ugly, it needs to be remembered that he was injured for part of that time, and is only now a few weeks into getting regular reps. His good numbers at Triple-A in 2025 are probably more indicative of the real player. Either way, the switch hitter is going to do a whole lot of damage at the plate anyway. His game is working really pesky at-bats, situational hitting, stealing some bases, and occasionally chipping in some gap power. His real value is in the ability to play anywhere on the diamond, including shortstop, and play against left-handers as well as right-handed pitching. That might make it a little easier to get something out of a bench that has been downright horrendous in 2026.
In any case, with the season pretty well lost at this point, it’s just nice to see some new faces while we wait for Skubal and Mize to get it going enough to stabilize their trade value.
2 months ago
DETROIT (AP) — Bryce Miller allowed one hit in six scoreless innings and the Seattle Mariners got back on track with a 4-0 win over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday afternoon.
Dominic Canzone drove in two runs with a pair of long extra-base hits for the Mariners, who had lost two straight after an eight-game winning streak.
Detroit was 4-0 in June after going 6-22 in May.
Miller (2-0) allowed a lead-off triple to Colt Keith in the third and walked two batters while striking out nine. He has allowed 16 hits in 27 innings this season, striking out 29.
Tigers starter Keider Montero (2-4) gave up four runs on six hits in five innings.
Dominic Canzone drove in two runs with a pair of long extra-base hits for the Mariners, who had lost two straight after an eight-game winning streak.
Detroit was 4-0 in June after going 6-22 in May.
Miller (2-0) allowed a lead-off triple to Colt Keith in the third and walked two batters while striking out nine. He has allowed 16 hits in 27 innings this season, striking out 29.
Tigers starter Keider Montero (2-4) gave up four runs on six hits in five innings.
