{"id":68000,"date":"2025-05-31T05:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/68000\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T05:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:17:07","slug":"tigers-plan-to-call-up-rhp-dylan-smith-to-add-high-velocity-arm-in-bullpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/68000\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers plan to call up RHP Dylan Smith to add high-velocity arm in bullpen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kansas City, Mo. \u2013 Dylan Smith\u2019s indominable will has been rewarded.<\/p>\n

The Tigers are expected to call up Smith on Friday, according to a source familiar with the team transaction.<\/p>\n

The corresponding move will be announced before the game Friday and Smith will be added to fill the final vacancy on the 40-man roster.<\/p>\n

Subscribers: Dylan Smith is torching batters at Erie and a Tigers bullpen takes notice<\/a><\/p>\n

A third-round pick out of Alabama in 2021, Smith was invited to big-league game in 2022. But his ascent was slowed by a series of arm injuries \u2013 triceps, forearm flexor strain, subscapular strain \u2013 that cost him most of the 2023 and 2024 seasons.<\/p>\n

But he got healthy and he was moved to the bullpen and he\u2019s been dominant this season, throwing 96-98 mph four-seamers and punching out 32 hitters in 21 innings between Double-A Erie and Triple-A Toledo.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the kind of high-velocity, swing-and-miss reliever that the Tigers\u2019 otherwise sturdy bullpen has been lacking outside of Will Vest.<\/p>\n

Chris.McCosky@detroitnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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