{"id":845436,"date":"2026-08-06T09:28:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845436\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:28:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:28:54","slug":"tigers-sign-austin-gomber-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845436\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Sign Austin Gomber – MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tigers agreed to a minor league deal with starter\u00a0Austin Gomber<\/a>, according to the MLB.com transaction tracker<\/a>. He\u2019ll report to Triple-A Toledo. Detroit also assigned righty reliever\u00a0Andre Granillo<\/a> to Toledo after he cleared outright waivers.<\/p>\n

Gomber was released from a minor league deal with the Braves earlier in the week. The left-hander is now on his third team of the season. Gomber opened the year on a minor league contract with Texas and has a combined 6.01 ERA over 82 1\/3 innings at the Triple-A level. He has been around the strike zone but has a middling 17.6% strikeout rate and has struggled with the home run ball.<\/p>\n

Those have been the standard concerns for Gomber. He had a couple seasons early in his career with the Rockies as a strike-throwing fifth starter. His already fringe velocity has continued to decline in recent years. He\u2019s averaging 90.2 mph on his four-seam fastball after working in the 92-93 range early in his career. Gomber has a deep pitch mix that he can throw for strikes but no standout offerings, so he looks more like an organizational depth arm at this point. He has a 5.08 ERA in a little over 700 big league innings between 2018-25.<\/p>\n

Detroit has traded Tarik Skubal<\/a> and\u00a0Casey Mize<\/a>, pushing\u00a0Drew Anderson<\/a> into the rotation. They\u2019ll get\u00a0Jackson Jobe<\/a> back from the injured list this weekend. Jobe and Anderson will both be on pitch limits early on, which will force the bullpen to take a decent number of innings. Gomber can stay stretched out as a starter in Toledo and potentially be an option for long relief if the bullpen gets taxed.<\/p>\n

Granillo was designated for assignment on Friday when Detroit needed a 40-man roster spot for\u00a0Max Clark<\/a>. He\u2019d been in Triple-A on optional assignment since they claimed him from Washington three weeks earlier. Granillo has allowed a 6.23 ERA in 30 1\/3 innings between the Cardinals and Nationals over the last two years. He posted excellent Triple-A marks in 2025 but is amidst a tough year in the minors, allowing almost seven earned runs per nine across 35 1\/3 frames. This is Granillo\u2019s first career outright assignment, so he\u2019ll need to report to Toledo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tigers agreed to a minor league deal with starter\u00a0Austin Gomber, according to the MLB.com transaction tracker. He\u2019ll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[408787,64,416881,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-845436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-andre-granillo","tag-au","tag-austin-gomber","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845436","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=845436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}