{"id":633108,"date":"2026-03-20T06:43:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T06:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/633108\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T06:43:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T06:43:54","slug":"detroit-tigers-send-5-players-packing-as-final-roster-decisions-loom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/633108\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Tigers Send 5 Players Packing as Final Roster Decisions Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Detroit Tigers<\/a> continue to trim their roster as Opening Day gets closer, making another round of cuts on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

According to Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press<\/a>, the Tigers reassigned five players to minor-league camp as part of their latest roster moves in spring training.<\/p>\n

\"DetroitPlayers Reassigned<\/p>\n

Detroit sent the following players to minor-league camp:<\/p>\n

Scott Effross (RHP)Jack Little (RHP)Tanner Rainey (RHP)Konnor Pilkington (LHP)Corey Julks (OF)<\/p>\n

All five players were minor-league signees and are expected to begin the season with Triple-A Toledo.<\/p>\n

Where the Roster Stands<\/p>\n

Following this latest round of cuts:<\/p>\n

40 players remain in MLB camp3 additional players are on the 60-day injured listJust 8 days remain until Opening Day (March 26)What It Means<\/p>\n

At this stage of camp, these moves are less about surprises and more about finalizing depth and roles.<\/p>\n

The bullpen competition is tightening, especially with multiple right-handed relievers being reassignedKonnor Pilkington\u2019s move clears another left-handed option, signaling Detroit may already have a clearer picture of its bullpen mixCorey Julks adds experienced depth at Triple-A, giving the Tigers flexibility if injuries arise early in the season<\/p>\n

With just over a week to go, the Tigers are zeroing in on their final 26-man roster, and every move from here on out carries a little more weight.<\/p>\n

Detroit\u2019s roster picture is coming into focus, and the countdown to Opening Day is officially on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Tigers continue to trim their roster as Opening Day gets closer, making another round of cuts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,18251,147,53,2583,23677,35263,4,2284,2058,594],"class_list":["post-633108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-tigers","tag-baseball","tag-corey-julks","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-detroittigers","tag-jack-little","tag-konnor-pilkington","tag-mlb","tag-scott-effross","tag-tanner-rainey","tag-tigers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116260151944440190","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633108","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=633108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}