{"id":132835,"date":"2025-06-26T16:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/132835\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T16:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:49:09","slug":"tigers-designate-matt-gage-for-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/132835\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Designate Matt Gage For Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tigers have designated left-handed reliever Matt Gage<\/a> for assignment, per Cody Stavenhagen of The Athletic<\/a>. His spot on the roster goes to lefty Dietrich Enns<\/a>, whose contract has been formally selected from Triple-A Toledo (a move that was first reported earlier in the week<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Gage, 32, signed a minor league deal over the winter and was selected to the big league roster a couple weeks ago. He\u2019s tossed 5 2\/3 shutout innings out of A.J. Hinch\u2019s bullpen, albeit with a sub-par 3-to-2 K\/BB ratio (12% strikeout rate, 8% walk rate). It\u2019s the third season in which Gage has seen major league time. Despite having enjoyed success in small samples during all three seasons \u2014 Gage has a career 1.42 ERA \u2014 he\u2019s only gotten 25 1\/3 innings in the big leagues.<\/p>\n

Detroit is Gage\u2019s third major league team in three seasons. He\u2019s also suited up for the Blue Jays and Astros. The lefty has fanned 22.5% of his opponents against a 10.8% walk rate. He\u2019s never been an especially hard thrower, but this year\u2019s 91.9 mph average fastball is down noticeably from the 94 mph he averaged with the Astros in 2023. Be that as it may, Gage pitched well with the Tigers and was excellent in Triple-A Toledo prior to his promotion as well: 32 1\/3 innings, 1.67 ERA, 22.8% strikeout rate, 3.3% walk rate. That\u2019s Gage\u2019s seventh season logging time in Triple-A. He has a career 4.64 earned run average at the top minor league level. He\u2019s logged a 4.64 ERA in 316 1\/3 innings there and recorded a 20.9% strikeout rate with an 8.1% walk rate.<\/p>\n

Gage is out of minor league options, so the Tigers didn\u2019t have the ability to simply send him to the minors without first exposing him to waivers. Now that he\u2019s been designated for assignment, he can be traded or placed on waivers at any point in the next five days. Waivers are a 48-hour process, so we\u2019ll know within the next week what Gage\u2019s next step is. Because Gage has been outrighted in the past, he\u2019ll have the option to elect free agency and explore opportunities with other teams if he passes through waivers unclaimed once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tigers have designated left-handed reliever Matt Gage for assignment, per Cody Stavenhagen of The Athletic. His spot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,147,53,2583,12018,12022,4,594],"class_list":{"0":"post-132835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-tigers","11":"tag-detroittigers","12":"tag-dietrich-enns","13":"tag-matt-gage","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-tigers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114750696284281094","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}