{"id":524176,"date":"2026-01-16T22:19:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/524176\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:19:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:19:26","slug":"tigers-add-catching-depth-on-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/524176\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers add catching depth on minor-league deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tigers<\/a>Updated: Jan. 16, 2026, 4:36 p.m.|Published: Jan. 16, 2026, 4:36 p.m.\"AaronAaron Antonini, 27, played college ball at Middle Tennessee and was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals. (AP Photo\/Aaron M. Sprecher)ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/p>\n

DETROIT — The Detroit Tigers have signed catcher Aaron Antonini to a minor-league contract.<\/p>\n

Antonini, 27, played college ball at Middle Tennessee and was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 18th round in 2019.<\/p>\n

He reached as high as Triple-A Memphis with the Cards but was let go in 2024 and spent the season playing indy ball. After some time in Mexico, Antonini signed a minor-league deal with the Texas Rangers last summer. <\/p>\n

TIGERS\u2019 NOTABLE MINOR-LEAGUE SIGNINGS<\/p>\n

RHP\u00a0Tanner Rainey<\/a>\u00a0(re-signed)C Tomas Nido<\/a>\u00a0(re-signed)RHP\u00a0Matt Seelinger<\/a>\u00a0(re-signed)RHP\u00a0Cole Waites<\/a>RHP\u00a0Scott Effross<\/a>RHP\u00a0Dylan File<\/a>RHP\u00a0Inohan Paniagua<\/a>LHP\u00a0Enmanuel De Jesus<\/a>LHP Carlos Pe\u00f1a (re-signed)RHP\u00a0Tyler Mattison<\/a>\u00a0(re-signed)RHP\u00a0Woo-Suk Go<\/a>\u00a0(re-signed)RHP\u00a0Jack Little<\/a>\u00a0(re-signed)LHP\u00a0Sean Guenther<\/a>\u00a0(re-signed)RHP\u00a0Dugan Darnell<\/a>\u00a0(re-signed)RHP\u00a0Burch Smith<\/a>LHP\u00a0Bryan Sammons<\/a>RHP Jalen Evans<\/a>C Aaron Antonini<\/p>\n

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… more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TigersUpdated: Jan. 16, 2026, 4:36 p.m.|Published: Jan. 16, 2026, 4:36 p.m.Aaron Antonini, 27, played college ball at Middle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524177,"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-524176","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\/115907105405849494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524176","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=524176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}