{"id":509632,"date":"2026-01-07T14:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/509632\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:04:11","slug":"former-detroit-tigers-triple-a-hurler-signs-with-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/509632\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Detroit Tigers\u2019 Triple-A hurler signs with Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/tigers\/\" title=\"Navigate to Tigers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tigers<\/a>Updated: Jan. 07, 2026, 8:34 a.m.|Published: Jan. 07, 2026, 8:34 a.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Devin Sweet\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/YRF3AUHXWFGD5E6MPICPMCRJUE.jpg\"  \/>Devin Sweet struck out 111 batters in 76 innings for Toledo in 2024 but never got a call-up to Detroit. (AP Photo\/Lindsey Wasson)AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3CJIU3YKBJBODAX7WC4Q6VM6QM\">DETROIT &#8212; Former Detroit Tigers right-hander Devin Sweet has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/01\/red-sox-sign-devin-sweet-to-minor-league-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/01\/red-sox-sign-devin-sweet-to-minor-league-deal.html\">signed a minor-league deal with the Boston Red Sox<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FI23AE6JFZAGNCZ5NCZKOTWGZI\">Sweet, 29, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/tigers\/2024\/11\/tigers-trade-pitcher-to-phillies-for-cash-considerations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/tigers\/2024\/11\/tigers-trade-pitcher-to-phillies-for-cash-considerations.html\">traded by the Tigers to the Phillies for cash considerations <\/a>after the 2024 season. Sweet originally signed with the Seattle Mariners as an undrafted free agent in 2018 and made his debut in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YC2G53NUE5H2ZOII4YHDAZT5WU\">Sweet struck out 111 batters in 76 innings for Toledo in 2024 but never got a call-up to Detroit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6QZY3SQR3RHCTC7T2C73PKKLKU\">He spent the entire 2025 season with the Phillies\u2019 Triple-A affiliate in Lehigh Valley, posting a 5.08 ERA in 51 1\/3 innings, striking out 49 and walking 27. <\/p>\n<p>Evan Woodbery has covered the Detroit Tigers and Major League Baseball for MLive.com since 2016. He has previously covered the Saints\/NFL for The Times-Picayune\/NOLA.com; University of Tennessee athletics for&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TigersUpdated: Jan. 07, 2026, 8:34 a.m.|Published: Jan. 07, 2026, 8:34 a.m.Devin Sweet struck out 111 batters in 76&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[2514,5,147,53,2583,4,594,2515],"class_list":{"0":"post-509632","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","15":"tag-wspix"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115854197617006716","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509632","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=509632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}