{"id":499789,"date":"2026-02-26T01:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499789\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T01:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:55:11","slug":"tigers-sign-colin-poche-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499789\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Sign Colin Poche To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tigers are signing veteran reliever\u00a0Colin Poche<\/a> to a minor league contract, as first announced<\/a> by the training facility Driveline Baseball. Chris McCosky of The Detroit News<\/a> reports that the ISE Baseball client will not receive an invite to big league camp.<\/p>\n

Poche pitched in the big leagues as recently as last June. He made 13 early-season appearances with the Nationals and had a one-game cameo with the Mets on June 28. Opponents tagged him for 14 runs (13 earned) on 12 hits and 14 walks in just 9 1\/3 innings. Poche also had a rough year with the Mets\u2019 Triple-A affiliate and was released in August.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old pitched in the Puerto Rican Winter League this offseason. He gave up six runs on eight hits and seven walks over 6 2\/3 innings. Poche has had a very tough time finding the strike zone of late. That hadn\u2019t been a huge issue for the southpaw before last season. Poche had a 3.63 ERA with an unexceptional 9.2% walk percentage in 208 1\/3 MLB frames with the Rays from 2019-24. He struck out 27% of batters faced.<\/p>\n

The extent of Poche\u2019s recent struggles will keep him from getting a look in Spring Training. He\u2019s not on the radar for an Opening Day job and should begin the season at Triple-A Toledo. If he can get the strike-throwing back on track, he could put himself in the mix for a midseason middle relief spot. Poche has never had huge velocity, but he has an extreme over-the-top arm angle and a backspinning fastball that can be tough to track at the top of the strike zone. At his best, he missed bats and induced a lot of easy pop-ups by running the four-seamer above barrels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tigers are signing veteran reliever\u00a0Colin Poche to a minor league contract, as first announced by the training…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,199915,462,82],"class_list":["post-499789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-colin-poche","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499789","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=499789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}