{"id":606576,"date":"2026-03-04T23:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/606576\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T23:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:04:26","slug":"keider-montero-update-tigers-send-right-hander-to-triple-a-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/606576\/","title":{"rendered":"Keider Montero update: Tigers send right-hander to Triple-A rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAKELAND, FL \u2013\u00a0The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/sports\/tigers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Detroit Tigers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Detroit Tigers<\/a> optioned one player to Triple-A Toledo on Wednesday, March 4, in the third round of spring training roster cuts, leaving 58 players remaining in MLB camp (not including two players on the 60-day injured list).<\/p>\n<p>There are 22 days until Opening Day on March 26.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The one player: right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/monteke01.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Keider Montero;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Keider Montero<\/a>, who was the third healthy cut of spring camp after fellow pitchers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/maddety01.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ty Madden;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ty Madden<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/smithdy01.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Dylan Smith;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Dylan Smith<\/a> were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/tigers\/2026\/03\/01\/detroit-tigers-roster-cuts-spring-training-ty-madden-dylan-smith\/88933056007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:sent down in Sunday&#039;s second round of moves;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">sent down in Sunday&#8217;s second round of moves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">WEDNESDAY&#8217;S ACTION IN LAKELAND: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/tigers\/2026\/03\/04\/detroit-tigers-game-score-kerry-carpenter-team-panama\/88984651007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kerry Carpenter blasts home run in Tigers&#039; 2-1 win over Team Panama;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kerry Carpenter blasts home run in Tigers&#8217; 2-1 win over Team Panama<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Detroit Tigers pitcher Keider Montero, right, talks to pitcher Enmanuel De Jesus at practice during spring training at TigerTown in Lakeland, Fla. on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fec232ef3654bc5105fe9afcbff2245d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Detroit Tigers pitcher Keider Montero, right, talks to pitcher Enmanuel De Jesus at practice during spring training at TigerTown in Lakeland, Fla. on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Montero will serve as a starter in Triple-A Toledo.<\/p>\n<p>He will provide rotation depth for the Tigers in the 2026 season, just like he did in 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This story will be updated.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Evan Petzold at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/mailto:epetzold@freepress.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:epetzold@freepress.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">epetzold@freepress.com<\/a>\u00a0or follow him\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvanPetzold\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@EvanPetzold;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@EvanPetzold<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/tigers\/2026\/03\/04\/detroit-tigers-roster-cuts-spring-training-keider-montero\/88986503007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Detroit Tigers option Keider Montero in spring training roster cuts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Detroit Tigers option Keider Montero in spring training roster cuts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKELAND, FL \u2013\u00a0The Detroit Tigers optioned one player to Triple-A Toledo on Wednesday, March 4, in the third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,147,53,2583,17471,6671,391,3770,4,78276,594,3774,13082,12046],"class_list":{"0":"post-606576","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-dylan-smith","13":"tag-keider-montero","14":"tag-kerry-carpenter","15":"tag-lakeland","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-spring-camp","18":"tag-tigers","19":"tag-toledo","20":"tag-triple-a-toledo","21":"tag-ty-madden"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116173411610795396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606576","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=606576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}