{"id":391988,"date":"2026-01-04T23:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/391988\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T23:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:22:17","slug":"tigers-sign-scott-effross-to-minor-league-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/391988\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Sign Scott Effross To Minor League Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tigers signed right-hander Scott Effross<\/a> to a minor league contract in December, as per Effross\u2019 MLB.com profile page.\u00a0 Effross has been assigned to Triple-A Toledo, and will presumably be a non-roster invite to the Tigers\u2019 big league spring camp.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old sidearmer is looking to rebound from three straight injury-marred seasons.\u00a0 A Tommy John surgery entirely wiped out Effross\u2019 2023 campaign, and a back surgery during that TJ rehab period kept Effross out of any game action until June 2024, and he ended up tossing 35 1\/3 minor league innings that season as well as 3 1\/3 MLB frames with the Yankees.\u00a0 During Spring Training 2025, Effross then suffered a Grade 2 hamstring strain that led to three more months on the shelf, and he amassed only 10 2\/3 innings for New York while being frequently shuffled up and down from the minors.<\/p>\n

While Effross was projected<\/a> for just an $800K salary in his first year of arbitration eligibility, the Yankees chose to non-tender the righty in November.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t an unexpected decision given Effross\u2019 injury woes, and he\u2019ll now look to try and re-establish himself and win a job in Detroit\u2019s bullpen.\u00a0 He has a minor league option remaining, as well as two more arb-eligible years if he can make the roster and recapture some of his early-career form.<\/p>\n

Before the Tommy John surgery, Effross looked to be establishing himself as a bullpen weapon in his first two Major League seasons.\u00a0 He debuted in 2021 as a member of the Cubs, and posted a 2.78 ERA, 27.9% strikeout rate, 5.6% walk rate, and 45.1% grounder rate over 71 1\/3 combined innings with the Cubs and Yankees during the 2021-22 seasons.\u00a0 New York was intrigued enough to acquire Effross in a one-for-one swap for Hayden Wesneski<\/a> at the 2022 deadline, in what ended up being a nice trade for Chicago.<\/p>\n

Effross\u2019 few cups of coffee in the majors over the last two seasons have yielded only a 7.71 ERA and a 12.3% strikeout rate across 14 innings.\u00a0 His K% was also diminished (through not to that extent) during his minor league work in 2024-25, and Effross struggled to a 6.37 ERA in 29 2\/3 frames with at the Triple-A level last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tigers signed right-hander Scott Effross to a minor league contract in December, as per Effross\u2019 MLB.com profile…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,7314,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-391988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-scott-effross","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}