{"id":354679,"date":"2025-12-19T03:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354679\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T03:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:54:08","slug":"tigers-sign-four-pitchers-to-minor-league-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354679\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Sign Four Pitchers To Minor League Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tigers have made a handful of depth additions in the past few days. Relievers\u00a0Jack Little<\/a> and\u00a0Sean Guenther<\/a> return on minor league contracts after being non-tendered, according to the MLB.com transaction tracker<\/a>. They\u2019re adding left-hander Enmanuel De Jesus<\/a> on a minor league deal that\u2019d pay him at a $1.3MM rate if he makes the big league roster, reports Evan Petzold of The Detroit Free-Press<\/a>. Righty reliever\u00a0Cole Waites<\/a> will also be in camp as a non-roster invitee after signing a minor league deal last week, as first reported by Ari Alexander of 7 News Boston<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Guenther is the only of the four pitchers who has appeared in a game for the Tigers. The left-hander has pitched 31 1\/3 innings of 2.30 ERA ball over the past two seasons. He didn\u2019t miss enough bats to support the excellent run prevention mark and has been an up-and-down middle reliever. Guenther missed the final three months of the \u201925 season working back from hip surgery. Detroit used the non-tender deadline to drop him from the 40-man roster with an eye towards bringing him back on a minor league contract.<\/p>\n

They did the same thing with Little, whom they\u2019d claimed off waivers from Pittsburgh a couple weeks earlier. The 27-year-old righty (28 in January) debuted with two appearances for the Dodgers this year. He spent the rest of the season in Triple-A, where he turned in a 4.06 ERA with a modest 20.2% strikeout percentage over 62 innings.<\/p>\n

De Jesus, 29, returns to affiliated ball after two seasons in Korea. He spent a year apiece with the Kiwoom Heroes and the KT Wiz. De Jesus worked out of the rotation and posted a sub-4.00 ERA while starting 30 games in both seasons. He struck out 24% of opponents with a 3.81 earned run average in 335 combined frames. The Venezuela native pitched in two MLB games for the Marlins in 2023.<\/p>\n

Waites also most recently appeared in the big leagues two years ago. He allowed seven runs in eight innings for the Giants between 2022-23. He underwent elbow surgery late in the \u201923 season and has missed most of the past two seasons. The 27-year-old Waites owns a 4.46 ERA in 43 career appearances at the Triple-A level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tigers have made a handful of depth additions in the past few days. Relievers\u00a0Jack Little and\u00a0Sean Guenther…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,153582,153527,32336,462,134374,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-354679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cole-waites","11":"tag-enmanuel-de-jesus","12":"tag-jack-little","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-sean-guenther","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}