{"id":161175,"date":"2025-07-08T16:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T16:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/161175\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T16:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T16:11:11","slug":"tigers-sign-veteran-lefty-out-of-mexican-league-for-mud-hens-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/161175\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers sign veteran lefty out of Mexican League for Mud Hens roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5SPHRJUVRZAUXBLELSUUYMLPOY.jpg\"  fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Devin Smeltzer\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"article__image-content\" height=\"600\" width=\"300\"\/>Devin Smeltzer last pitched in the big leagues for the Marlins in 2023. (AP Photo\/Wilfredo Lee)AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JI2MHRN34ZEQ5FTSVFUBIKONFQ\">DETROIT &#8212; The Detroit Tigers have signed veteran left-hander Devin Smeltzer out of the Mexican League and assigned him to Triple-A Toledo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"IQ7M4Y6S35G4PMU3D2NLNN2GB4\">Smeltzer, 29, has pitched in parts of five MLB seasons, most recently with the Miami Marlins in 2023. This year, he had been pitching for the Dorados de Chihuahua in the Mexican League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devin Smeltzer last pitched in the big leagues for the Marlins in 2023. (AP Photo\/Wilfredo Lee)AP DETROIT &#8212;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[2514,5,147,53,2583,4,594],"class_list":{"0":"post-161175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-2514","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-detroit-tigers","12":"tag-detroittigers","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-tigers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114818494459304167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161175","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=161175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}