{"id":147730,"date":"2026-03-25T06:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147730\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:17:12","slug":"former-seawolve-mcgonigle-makes-tigers-opening-day-roster-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147730\/","title":{"rendered":"Former SeaWolve McGonigle Makes Tigers Opening Day Roster | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"mcgonigle 2.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tigers\/status\/2036478689127313537\/photo\/1\">Detroit Tigers (@tigers) \/ X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Detroit Tigers will open the Major League Baseball season Thursday with infielder Kevin McGonigle on their Opening Day roster.<\/p>\n<p>McGonigle, 21, spent part of the 2025 season with the Erie SeaWolves, hitting .254 with 12 home runs and 41 RBIs in 46 games.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/MLB.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MLB.com<\/a>, he could become the youngest player to start on Opening Day for the Tigers since Omar Infante in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>McGonigle was selected by Detroit in the first round of the 2023 MLB Draft as a Competitive Balance Round A pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers (@tigers) \/ X The Detroit Tigers will open the Major League Baseball season Thursday with infielder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,67358,726],"class_list":["post-147730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-seawolves","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}