{"id":904961,"date":"2026-11-03T23:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T23:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/904961\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T23:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T23:44:13","slug":"rockies-return-rj-petit-to-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/904961\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies Return RJ Petit To Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rockies have returned 2025 Rule 5 pick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=petit-000rj-&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-11-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RJ Petit<\/a> to the Tigers, per a team announcement. The right-hander missed the entire 2026 campaign while recovering from Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado took Petit with the top selection in last year\u2019s Rule 5 draft. He was coming off a strong minor league season that saw him post a 2.44 ERA with a 29.5% strikeout rate between Double-A and Triple-A. Petit made three Spring Training appearances with the Rockies in 2026. He had TJ in March.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Petit will head back to Detroit to continue recovering from the surgery. It\u2019s unclear how much he\u2019ll pitch this season, if at all. The injury came at a brutal time for a young arm seemingly on the brink of his MLB debut.<\/p>\n<p>Petit sat in the mid-90s with his four-seamer and sinker during his stint in Toledo. He also threw a slider and changeup. Petit leaned heavily on the slider, throwing it more than 40% of the time. It averaged 83.7 mph with decent glove-side movement. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fangraphs.com\/players\/robert-petit\/sa3017848\/stats\/pitching\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FanGraphs<\/a> has the slider as a 55-grade pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Photo courtesy of Kim Klement Neitzel, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rockies have returned 2025 Rule 5 pick RJ Petit to the Tigers, per a team announcement. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,378694,99],"class_list":["post-904961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-rj-petit","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}