{"id":878288,"date":"2026-08-31T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/878288\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:08:09","slug":"tigers-to-select-john-peck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/878288\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers To Select John Peck"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tigers are calling up infield prospect John Peck<\/a> from Triple-A Toledo, reports Emily Waldon of Baseball America. Detroit will have to make transactions on both the 26-man and 40-man rosters to formally select Peck\u2019s contract.<\/p>\n

Peck, 24, was the Tigers\u2019 seventh-round pick out of Pepperdine back in 2023. He\u2019s a quality defensive shortstop who can also handle second or third base and is in the midst of a nice season at the plate. Peck has played at four levels in 2026, including a brief pair of injury rehab stints at Class-A and High-A. He\u2019s spent the bulk of the year in Double-A but recently moved up to Triple-A, where he\u2019s clobbered opposing pitchers through his first five games (hitting .500 with a home run in 19 plate appearances). Overall, in 69 games and 293 plate appearances, Peck has slashed .286\/.336\/.504 with 11 homers, 19 doubles, three triples, 22 steals (in 28 attempts), a 6.5% walk rate and a 24.9% strikeout rate.<\/p>\n

MLB.com ranks Peck 20th<\/a> among Tigers farmhands. He\u2019s 25th at Baseball America<\/a> and 27th at FanGraphs<\/a>. Scouting reports on the 6\u2032, 185-pound infielder tout his glovework at shortstop and knack for making hard contact. He\u2019s an above-average runner with a bit of power but a free-swinging approach at the plate that undercuts his pop and penchant for strong contact. Peck is prone to chasing and has just a 73% contact rate in the minors this season \u2014 well below the 77.8% major league average.<\/p>\n

Peck will probably be fairly susceptible to strikeouts and struggle to keep his on-base percentage up, but a good shortstop with some speed and pop can settle in as a nice utilityman who\u2019s capable of backing up at multiple spots. He\u2019s a right-handed bat, too, which is a nice perk for a club that\u2019s currently a bit deeper in left-handed bats (Riley Greene<\/a>, Kevin McGonigle<\/a>, Max Clark<\/a>, Kerry Carpenter<\/a>, Colt Keith<\/a>, Zach McKinstry<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The Tigers would\u2019ve needed to add Peck to the 40-man roster this offseason anyhow, as he\u2019d otherwise have been eligible for the Rule 5 Draft. That\u2019s also true of fellow infield prospect Max Anderson<\/a>, who could also get his first call to the majors soon, with rosters set to expand to 28 tomorrow. Anderson has the more impressive minor league stat line (.307\/.391\/.507) and is considered the better offensive prospect of the two, but he\u2019s limited to second base with the glove and is considered to be a below-average defender there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tigers are calling up infield prospect John Peck from Triple-A Toledo, reports Emily Waldon of Baseball America.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,304742,462,82],"class_list":["post-878288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-john-peck","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878288","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=878288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}