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Is Alex Bregman an option for Detroit Tigers at Handelsdeadline?
Mike Ferrin, co-host of Power Alley on MLB Network Radio, investigates the possibility that the Tigers will act for Alex Bregman this season.
It is not really a trade season yet, but the Tigers are already making movements.
Only 17 days after he received him to the Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens, the Detroit Tigers remembered on Monday, July 7 at the right-handed pitcher Keider Montero and then he had planned him to pitch that night in the 6:40 pm match against Tampa in Comerica Park.
In a corresponding step, the team has again assigned left-handed pitcher Bailey Horn to Toledo after Sunday’s 7-2 victory over the Guardians.
“Our bullpen has been beaten up a bit,” said Tigers manager AJ Hinch. “Keider can pitch in every situation.
“Combine that with the top of their order will generally be two, three right-handed batters and where our bullpen is-if those locusts are in the decision and and then we go with what is best.”
Montero is on the move for a large part of the season, because the Tigers manage their bullpen injuries. Since March 22, the 25-year-old has been recalled and chosen five times.
Despite that, he was fourth in the team in innings, hits and earned runs allowed. His strikeout rate, however, has remained, with only 39 more than 56 innings, eighth in the team.
In Montero’s last outing 19 June against Pittsburgh, he threw five innings, allowing three hits and one earned run with five strikeouts and two free runs. The Pirates won that game 8-4, their only victory of the three-game series.
Montero’s commuting between Toledo and Detroit will probably not stop quickly while the Tigers will continue to treat injuries in the coming weeks. The Tigers are two regular rotation members: right-handed Jackson Jowe, whose season ended with Tommy John Surgery in June, and right-handed Sawyer Gipson-Long, which is on the 15-day wounded list of neck stiffness.
The Tigers also look at two players with a long protective who may approach a return, José Urquidy and Alex Lange. Lange, who had 26 Saves in 32 races for the Tigers in 2023, but struggled to find his shape in 2024, last year an injury rose to his right Latissimus Dorsi tendon and needed surgery. Last year Urquidy underwent the Tommy John operation in his career for the second time in his career and signed with the Tigers in the low season.
Both are approaching returns, where long throws Long to Toledo and Urquidy throws a double -digit number of Bullpens, according to Hinch. However, it can take some time before either the hill sees at Comerica. Nevertheless, their status complicates the pitching of the tigers and serves to increase the need for the Moerto movement.
“People forget that you can add internally as an addition,” said Hinch. “I know it is always viewed on what someone is external of the organization, but I will just be happy if we get healthy.
“And you get Jose to invoice, Alex Lange to invoice. There are many boys who don’t have to be completely healthy yet, which I think it would improve this team.”
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