{"id":178525,"date":"2026-04-28T19:29:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178525\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:29:26","slug":"tigers-prospect-thayron-liranzo-cleared-for-active-duty-at-double-a-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178525\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers prospect Thayron Liranzo cleared for active duty at Double-A Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta \u2014 Tigers\u2019 No. 7-rated prospect (MLB Pipeline) Thayron Liranzo is finally getting his 2026 season started.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old catcher-first baseman who strained his oblique at the end of spring training, has been activated and assigned to Double-A Erie.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Thayron Liranzo, a 22-year-old catcher-first baseman who strained his oblique at the end of spring training, has been activated and assigned to Double-A Erie.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"740\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/7593e40d1699b55599b9e1e754001f23.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thayron Liranzo, a 22-year-old catcher-first baseman who strained his oblique at the end of spring training, has been activated and assigned to Double-A Erie.<\/p>\n<p>After dominating the Arizona Fall League in 2024 (.375 average, 1.158 OPS), he struggled at the plate in Double-A last season (31% strikeout rate). But he came to big-league camp having completely transformed his body and his hitting approach.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He went 8 for 17 in his rehab stint at Low-A Lakeland.<\/p>\n<p>Tigers\u2019 No. 4-rated prospect Josue Brice\u00f1o, also a catcher-first baseman, is still on the minor league injured list, recovering from wrist surgery<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/mailto:Chris.McCosky@detroitnews.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chris.McCosky@detroitnews.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Chris.McCosky@detroitnews.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris.McCosky@detroitnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>@cmccosky<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on The Detroit News: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/tigers\/2026\/04\/28\/detroit-tigers-prospect-thayron-liranzo-cleared-for-double-a-erie\/89840592007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Detroit Tigers prospect Thayron Liranzo cleared for Double-A Erie;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Detroit Tigers prospect Thayron Liranzo cleared for Double-A Erie&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Detroit Tigers prospect Thayron Liranzo cleared for Double-A Erie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta \u2014 Tigers\u2019 No. 7-rated prospect (MLB Pipeline) Thayron Liranzo is finally getting his 2026 season started. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[79715,136,138,137,59201,74905,79716,6821],"class_list":["post-178525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-arizona-fall-league","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-mlb-pipeline","tag-prospect","tag-strikeout-rate","tag-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178525","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=178525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}