{"id":388170,"date":"2026-01-04T23:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/388170\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T23:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:12:07","slug":"tigers-sign-scott-effross-to-minor-league-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/388170\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Sign Scott Effross To Minor League Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tigers signed right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/e\/effrosc01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-04_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scott Effross<\/a> to a minor league contract in December, as per Effross\u2019 MLB.com profile page.\u00a0 Effross has been assigned to Triple-A Toledo, and will presumably be a non-roster invite to the Tigers\u2019 big league spring camp.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old sidearmer is looking to rebound from three straight injury-marred seasons.\u00a0 A Tommy John surgery entirely wiped out Effross\u2019 2023 campaign, and a back surgery during that TJ rehab period kept Effross out of any game action until June 2024, and he ended up tossing 35 1\/3 minor league innings that season as well as 3 1\/3 MLB frames with the Yankees.\u00a0 During Spring Training 2025, Effross then suffered a Grade 2 hamstring strain that led to three more months on the shelf, and he amassed only 10 2\/3 innings for New York while being frequently shuffled up and down from the minors.<\/p>\n<p>While Effross was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/10\/projected-arbitration-salaries-for-2026.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">projected<\/a> for just an $800K salary in his first year of arbitration eligibility, the Yankees chose to non-tender the righty in November.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t an unexpected decision given Effross\u2019 injury woes, and he\u2019ll now look to try and re-establish himself and win a job in Detroit\u2019s bullpen.\u00a0 He has a minor league option remaining, as well as two more arb-eligible years if he can make the roster and recapture some of his early-career form.<\/p>\n<p>Before the Tommy John surgery, Effross looked to be establishing himself as a bullpen weapon in his first two Major League seasons.\u00a0 He debuted in 2021 as a member of the Cubs, and posted a 2.78 ERA, 27.9% strikeout rate, 5.6% walk rate, and 45.1% grounder rate over 71 1\/3 combined innings with the Cubs and Yankees during the 2021-22 seasons.\u00a0 New York was intrigued enough to acquire Effross in a one-for-one swap for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wesneha01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-04_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hayden Wesneski<\/a> at the 2022 deadline, in what ended up being a nice trade for Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Effross\u2019 few cups of coffee in the majors over the last two seasons have yielded only a 7.71 ERA and a 12.3% strikeout rate across 14 innings.\u00a0 His K% was also diminished (through not to that extent) during his minor league work in 2024-25, and Effross struggled to a 6.37 ERA in 29 2\/3 frames with at the Triple-A level last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tigers signed right-hander Scott Effross to a minor league contract in December, as per Effross\u2019 MLB.com 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