The Tigers announced Monday that they’ve designated right-hander Devin Sweet for assignment. His spot on the 40-man roster will go to newly extended top prospect Colt Keith, who inked a six-year deal with three club options over the weekend.
Detroit only claimed Sweet off waivers 11 days ago — marking his fourth organization in four months. He’s gone from Seattle to Oakland to San Francisco and Detroit via waivers, and the Tigers will now have a week to either trade Sweet or place him on outright waivers yet again. If he clears, the Tigers could retain him as Triple-A depth, but the sheer volume of teams who’ve put in a claim on Sweet suggest there’s a chance he could yet again be claimed.
The 27-year-old Sweet surrendered 10 runs in 8 2/3 innings for the Mariners during this past season’s MLB debut. His minor league track record is far more impressive. In 44 innings between the Double-A and Triple-A levels this past season, the formerly undrafted free agent notched a pristine 2.25 ERA with a 32.6% strikeout rate and 6.3% walk rate. Sweet isn’t a flamethrower — he averaged 93 mph on his heater with Seattle — but has consistently missed bats and avoided walks as a professional. In five minor league seasons, he’s whiffed 29% of his opponents against a 7% walk rate. He has a pair of minor league options remaining, too, which will certainly appeal to other teams looking for some flexible bullpen depth in the late stages of the offseason.
That’s the end of the honeymoon, Sweet.
Is that three DFA’s? Oakland, SF, now Detroit?
4 with Seattle
Dan Campbell should be one getting designated in Detroit today.
Well you take the golden keyboard for stupid comment today
At least I’m walking away with some hardware. The Lions on the other hand?
congratulations you beat up the seventh grader with asthma and scoliosis, were all really proud of you
Darwinism.
What hardware are you specifically walking away with compared to Dan Campbell?
Campbell is holding them back with his horrid in game management, IMO.
I like Campbell, but they should have definitely kicked the tying FG in the 4th. You can’t leave that on the field.
Nobody wins it all their first time anyway. This summer they’ll sign a top FA DB then draft a pass rusher to help Hutchinson. Then next season we win it all.
Hope Sweet’s not bitter
Getting passed around like a beach ball at a Nickelback concert
Sweet! He is available again.
Twins should grab him. Looks like waiver wire claims and minor league signing are all we’re going to get this year:(
He belongs to the minors!
pick him up Washington
He had one pretty disastrous outing but those triple A numbers look great. Surely teams must be seeing something wrong with his action or something. Oakland or someone could certainly take a flyer
Could be just a lack of roster room too
So even if someone gave the Tigers a prospect or PTBNL for him, he’d still have to pass through waivers to be sent to the minors, correct?
You are correct, since Sweet is out of options he will need to pass through waivers to go down to the minors.
They have 7 days to trade him. After that, he has to pass through waivers to stay in the minors without being on the 40 man roster. He’ll be claimed if nobody trades for him though. So, he won’t be with Detroit in all likelihood.
The team that trades for him would have his rights. They wouldn’t have to expose him to the waiver wire. At least not right away. If that’s what you were asking.
Should have kept Sweet and ditched Mason Englert.
Sweet DFA twice within a month – SFG & Detroit. Traded from Seattle to SFG
Sweet can make it as a middle innings reliever, if he ultimately gets a chance.
Should have DFAd Maton, nobody in their right mind would have put a claim in
Agreed. Maton probably would have passed through waivers and they could have outrighted him to the minors. That would give the Tigers all of 2024 to see if he could actually play; if not, he would become a free agent at the end of the 2024 season.
Idiotic to use the 40 on someone who did not need to be on it, even if.he is a great player.
Hopefully he makes it through waivers. His stars were interesting. One web site had him ranked as the #27 Tigers prospect.
There should never be a comma before “too.” That’s an archaic punctuation rule. You guys need an editor.