Joey Wentz

The deadline for teams to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players is this afternoon at 4pm CT. Throughout the day, we’ll surely see a handful of arb-eligible players agree to terms with their clubs to avoid a hearing.

These so-called “pre-tender deals” usually, although not always, involve players who wereborderline non-tender candidates. Rather than run the risk of being cut loose, they can look to sign in the lead-up to the deadline. Those salaries often come in a little below projections, since these players tend to have less leverage because of the uncertainty about whether they’ll be offered a contract at all.

Under the 2022-26 collective bargaining agreement, players who sign to avoid an arbitration hearing are guaranteed full termination pay. That’s a change from prior CBAs, when teams could release an arb-eligible player before the season began and would only owe a prorated portion of the contract. This was done to incentivize teams and players to get deals done without going to a hearing.

All salary projections in this post come viaMLBTR contributor Matt Swartz. This post will be updated throughout the day as deals are announced and/or reported. Salary figures are fromThe Associated Press unless otherwise noted.

• TheAstros signed right-handerEnyel De Los Santos to a one-year deal and outfielderTaylor Trammell to a split deal, perBrian McTaggart of MLB.com. PerChandler Rome ofThe Athletic, De Los Santos gets $1.6MM, plus a $100K bonus if he appears in 60 games, while Trammell $900K if in the majors and $500K in the minors. They were projected for $2.1MM and $900K respectively.
• TheAthletics announced that they have signed right-handerLuis Medina and left-handerKen Waldichuk to one-year deals. Medina gets $835K, while Waldichuk comes in at $825K.
• TheBraves announced that they have signed infielderVidal Bruján, infielderMauricio Dubón, outfielderEli White and left-handersJoey Wentz andJosé Suarez for the 2026 season. Bruján’s deal was announced as a split contract; he’ll make $850K in MLB and $500K in the minors. Dubon will make $6.1MM, perJon Heyman of The New York Post, right around his $5.8MM projection. Suarez gets $900K, perAri Alexander of 7 News, below his $1.5MM projection. White and Wentz also get $900K salaries.
• TheBrewers announced that they have signed first basemanJake Bauers for 2026. He’ll make $2.7MM, perJon Heyman of The New York Post. He was projected for $2MM.
• TheGiants have agreed to a one-year deal with right-handerJT Brubaker, perJustice selos Santos of Mercury News. He commands a $1.82MM salary.
• TheGuardians have agreed to one-year deals with outfielderNolan Jones, catcher/designated hitterDavid Fry and right-handerMatt Festa, perZack Meisel of The Athletic. In afollow-up, Meisel also provides the salary figures. Jones will make $2MM, Fry $1.375MM and Festa $1MM. They were projected for $2MM, $1.2MM and $1MM respectively.
• TheMets and outfielderTyrone Taylor have agreed at $3.8MM, perMark Feinsand of MLB.com, right around his $3.6MM projection.
• TheNationals announced they have signed catcherRiley Adams to a one-year deal. It’s a split deal that pays $1MM in the big leagues and $500K in the minors.
• TheOrioles and right-handerFélix Bautista have agreed to a $2.25MM contract, reportsMark Feinsand of MLB.com. He was projected for $2.1MM.
• ThePadres announced they signed catcherLuis Campusano to a one-year deal. He’ll make $900K next year, perDennis Lin of The Athletic. He was projected for $1MM.
• ThePhillies have agreed to a split deal with catcherGarrett Stubbs, reportsMatt Gelb of The Athletic. Stubbs will make $925K in the majors and $575K in the minors. The major league salary is an exact match for his projection. The Phils announced that they also signed catcherRafael Marchán. He’ll make $860K, perTodd Zolecki of MLB.com. He was projected for $1MM.
• TheRangers announced they signed outfielderSam Haggerty to a one-year deal. It’s a $1.25MM contract.
• TheRays and right-handerCole Sulser have settled at $1.05MM, perMarc Topkin of The Tampa Bay Times. Sulser was projected for $1.2MM. According to the AP, it’s a split deal that pays at a $600K rate in the minors.
• TheReds and left-handerSam Moll have agreed at $875K, perJon Heyman of The New York Post. He was projected for $1.2MM. His 2026 deal also has $150K in potential incentives — $50K each for 45, 55 and 65 appearances.
• TheRoyals and infielderJonathan India agreed to an $8MM deal. You can read more about that inthis post.
• TheTigers and infielder/outfielderMatt Vierling agreed at $3.225MM, perJon Heyman of The New York Post. He was projected for $3.1MM. Detroit signed right-handerBeau Brieske at $1.1575MM, perHeyman, right around his $1.3MM projection. The Tigers signed catcherJake Rogers at $3.05MM, perEvan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press, right around his $2.9MM projection.
• TheTwins signed right-handerJustin Topa to a one-year, $1.225MM deal. MLBTR covered that earlier inthis post. The Twins turned down a $2MM club option for Topa, giving him a $225K buyout instead, but he remained under club control via arb. Between the buyout and next year’s salary, he’ll collect $1.45MM.Darren Wolfson of KSTP reported Topa’s 2026 salary.Aaron Gleeman of The Athletic adds that the guarantee is broken down into a $1MM salary in 2026 followed by a $225K buyout on a $5MM mutual option. The buyout can rise to $300K via unspecified incentives.
• TheWhite Sox announced that they have agreed to terms on a $900K deal with outfielderDerek Hill. He was projected for $1MM.
• TheYankees and infielderOswaldo Cabrera have agreed to a $1.2MM contract, perJack Curry of Yes Network, an exact match for his projection. The Yanks have also signed right-handerClarke Schmidt to a $4.5MM deal, perRobert Murray of FanSided, right around his $4.9MM projection.

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The Braves announced that third basemanAustin Riley was placed on the 10-day injured list due to a strained right abdomen.  Right-handerNathan Wiles was also optioned to Triple-A Gwinnett, and the two open roster spots will be filled by infielderNacho Alvarez Jr. (called up from Gwinnett) and southpawJoey Wentz (claimed off waivers yesterday from the Twins).

Riley was in the starting lineup for yesterday’s 6-5 Braves win over the Cardinals before his injury forced an early exit from the game in the fourth inning.  Manager Brian Snitker toldthe Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Chad Bishop that he thought Riley hurt himself while making an infield throw, and the team decided to make a precautionary removal since Riley was still feeling lingering soreness.

More should be known about the third baseman’s condition when Snitker meets with reporters today, though it may not be a great sign that Riley has been so quickly placed on the IL.  The fact that his injury was still termed as an abdomen strain rather than an oblique strain could be a plus, and with the All-Star break looming, the Braves may have decided to just give Riley the full 10 days off to perhaps minimize the amount of lost game time.

Missing any action is a relative rarity for Riley, who has played in 681 of a possible 741 games since the start of the 2021 season (including all 93 of Atlanta’s games this season).  Riley’s durability took a hit last season, as a fractured hand on August 18 ended up bringing his 2024 campaign to a premature close.

After delivering star-level performance during the 2021-23 seasons, Riley has been more ordinary over the last two years.  He has followed up his 116 wRC+ from 2024 with a 113 wRC+ in 408 plate appearances in 2025, with Riley hitting .274/.324/.441 with 14 home runs.  This relatively modest production has come despite a .356 BABIP and excellent hard-contact numbers, as Riley’s longtime issues at making contact and taking walks have only worsened this season.  His 6.1% walk rate is well below league average, and Riley’s 27.7% strikeout rate puts him in the eighth percentile of all batters.  Both metrics would represents new career lows over a full season, as Riley had a 5.4% walk rate and 36.4K% over 297 PA in his 2019 rookie season.

The injury comes at a particularly unfortunate time for Riley, as an .891 OPS over his last 50 PA indicated that he was starting to heat up.  His absence is also another blow to an underachieving Braves team that has struggled to a 41-52 record, and even if Riley does end up missing just a minimal amount of time, every game is critical as Atlanta slips further and further back in the playoff race.  The Braves certainly have the appearance ofbeing deadline sellers, thoughrecent reports indicate that the club is only looking to move rental players (if anyone) by July 31.

Riley is enough of a lineup fixture thatLuke Williams’ six innings of fill-in duty yesterday marked the first time all season that a Braves player besides Riley had lined up at the hot corner.  Williams figures to get more of the work at third base while Riley is out, though Alvarez has a good deal of experience at the position in the minors.  This will be Alvarez’s first taste of MLB action in 2025, and he hasn’t seen much game time at all this year, as a wrist injury and an oblique strain have limited the infielder to just 13 Triple-A appearances.

The Braves have claimed left-handerJoey Wentz off waivers from the Twins, per a team announcement. RightyKevin Herget was designated for assignment in a corresponding roster move.

It’s a full-circle moment for Wentz, whom the Braves originally drafted with the No. 40 overall pick back in 2016. The left-hander ranked among Atlanta’s top prospects for several years but was traded to the Tigers alongside infielder/outfielderTravis Demeritte in the 2019 trade that brought rightyShane Greene to the Braves.

Wentz made his major league debut with the Tigers in 2022 and had a nice start to his big league career (3.03 ERA in seven starts) before stumbling in subsequent seasons. Detroit gave Wentz a full audition in the rotation in 2023, but he was shelled for a 6.90 ERA in 105 2/3 frames. Those struggles prompted a move to the bullpen, but relief work hasn’t necessarily treated him much better. In 101 2/3 innings across the past two seasons, Wentz has a 5.42 ERA. That’s come in stints with Detroit, Pittsburgh and Minnesota.

Now 27 years old, Wentz had a particularly rough run in Minneapolis. He pitched eight innings as a Twin but was rocked for 14 runs on 17 hits (three homers) and nine walks with only six strikeouts. Minnesota designated him for assignment last week.

Wentz is out of minor league options, so he’ll go right onto the Braves’ big league roster. He’s now in line to make his debut with the team that originally drafted him nearly a decade ago, albeit in a highly circuitous manner. He’s fairly stretched out — Wentz tossed 48 pitches in a June 28 appearance, for instance — so he should be ready for multi-inning work as a long reliever or opener for an injury-riddled Braves staff that could lean heavily on bullpen games with four starters on the injured list.

Herget, 34, has pitched three major league innings in 2025 — two with the Mets and one with Atlanta. He’s spent most of the year in Triple-A, logging a 3.26 ERA in 30 1/3 innings split nearly evenly between the two organizations. He’s set 21.6% of his opponents down on strikes and issued walks at an 8% clip.

Herget has pitched in parts of four major league seasons and totaled 45 2/3 innings. He’s logged a 4.53 ERA in that time but fanned just 13.9% of the batters he’s faced. Herget has a strong 5.7% walk rate in that time. He’s sat 92.4 mph with his four-seamer in the majors, combining that offering with a cutter that sits 85.8 mph and a changeup that sits 83 mph. Herget has pitched 505 2/3 innings across parts of eight Triple-A seasons and recorded a 4.00 ERA. He’s in his final minor league option year. Atlanta will trade him or place him on waivers within the next five days.

The Twins announced Wednesday that they’ve designated left-handerJoey Wentz for assignment. His spot on the roster will go to fellow left-handed relieverAnthony Misiewicz, whose contract has been selected from Triple-A St. Paul.

Wentz, 27, was claimed off waivers out of the Pirates organization a bit less than a month ago. He’s been used in long relief and mop-up work with Minnesota and been hit hard. The former Braves top prospect has appeared in six games as a Twin and been scored upon in five of them, working to a disastrous 15.75 ERA (14 runs in eight innings). He’d previously pitched to a 4.15 ERA in 26 frames with Pittsburgh and now has an overall 6.88 ERA on the year.

Originally drafted 40th overall by Atlanta in 2016, Wentz was a well-regarded prospect who went from the Braves to the Tigers in the 2019Shane Greene swap. He made his big league debut with Detroit but has never found much success in the majors as either a starter or reliever. He’s pitched in parts of four seasons and tallied 239 2/3 innings with a 5.75 ERA, 20.6% strikeout rate and 10.3% walk rate. Home runs (1.50 HR/9) and an inability to strand runners (66.5%) have been the primary undoing for Wentz.

Wentz is out of minor league options, so the Twins (like the Pirates before them) couldn’t simply send him to the minors without first designating him for assignment. Minnesota will either place Wentz on waivers or trade him within the next five days. Waivers would be another 48-hour process, meaning his DFA will be resolved in a maximum of seven days. Wentz has never cleared waivers before and has under three years of service time, so in the likely event that he’s unclaimed this time around, the Twins can assign him outright to St. Paul and hope to get him on track in Triple-A.

In place of Wentz, the Twins will turn to another lefty with a fair bit of MLB experience — but more success. The 30-year-old Misiewicz signed a minor league deal over the winter and has pitched decently with the Saints, logging a 4.02 ERA, a 24.2% strikeout rate and an 8.3% walk rate for the Twins’ top minor league club. He’s picked up eight saves and a hold along the way. Misiewicz was cruising along with a sub-3.00 ERA before a five-run hiccup against the Reds’ top affiliate in late June. He’s bounced back with a pair of perfect innings.

The Twins will be Misiewicz’s sixth big league team. He’s previously suited up for the Mariners, Royals, D-backs, Tigers and Yankees. From 2020-24, Misiewicz has pitched 115 2/3 major league innings and delivered a 4.67 ERA, a 22.8% strikeout rate and a 7.6% walk rate. He’s been using a three-pitch mix in St. Paul, brandishing a four-seamer that sits 91.6 mph, a cutter that sits 87.6 mph and a slow curve that’s averaged 78.5 mph.

Like Wentz, Misiewicz is out of minor league options, so he’ll either need to stick in the ’pen or else be designated for assignment himself. Misiewicz has three years of big league service, which technically makes him controllable for three more years beyond the current season, but he has a long ways to go before that future control is any real consideration.

The Twins announced that they have claimed left-handerJoey Wentz off waivers from the Pirates. The latter club designated him for assignment a few days ago. Wentz is out of options, so the Twins will need to make a corresponding active roster move when he reports to the team. To open a 40-man spot for Wentz, the Twins have transferred rightyPablo López to the 60-day injured list. It was reported last week that López is expected to miss eight to twelve weeks due to a teres major strain.

Wentz, 27, is in his fourth major league season. He was primarily a starting pitcher in 2022 and 2023 but didn’t quite establish himself as a bonafide big league rotation member. At the end of the 2023 season, he had a 5.99 earned run average and had exhausted his final option season.

That pushed him to the bullpen, a role in which he has shown some potential. He tossed 55 1/3 innings out of Detroit’s bullpen last year. The 5.37 ERA wasn’t great, nor was his 10.6% walk rate, but his 23.6% strikeout rate and 42% ground ball rate were pretty close to average. That got him bumped off the roster at the end of August last year.

The Pirates put in a claim and got some encouraging results from Wentz to end the season. He posted a 1.50 ERA in 12 frames after that claim. His walk rate ticked up to 12% but he also struck out 26% of batters faced.

He stuck on Pittsburgh’s roster through the winter and into 2025 with some mixed results so far. His 9.6% walk rate is still a bit high but an improvement for him. He’s also tamped down his home runs, with only 6.5% of fly balls leaving the yard compared to 11.3% last year. His 41.8% ground ball rate is still close to league par but his strikeout rate has dipped to 19.1%.

That got him bumped off Pittsburgh’s roster but the Twins will take a shot on him. Minnesota currently hasDanny Coulombe as its only lefty reliever on the active roster, withKody Funderburk on optional assignment. Wentz will give managerRocco Baldelli a second southpaw in the relief corps alongside Coulombe, at least for the time being. Given his out-of-options status, Wentz will likely have a tenuous hold on a roster spot unless he takes a step forward.

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The Pirates announced four roster moves, including the news that catcher/infielderEndy Rodriguez has been placed on the 10-day injured list due to right elbow inflammation.  Left-handerJoey Wentz was also designated for assignment.  In the corresponding roster moves, the Bucs selected the contract of catcherBrett Sullivan, and called up right-handerIsaac Mattson from Triple-A Indianapolis.  (Noah Hiles of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was among the beat writers who noted earlier today that Sullivan and Mattson had locker space in the Pirates’ clubhouse while Wentz’s locker was gone, and managerDon Kelly told Hiles and other media and Rodriguez was going to the IL.)

Rodriguez has been limited to 18 games and 52 plate appearances in what has been another injury-plagued season for the former top prospect.  A lacerated finger sidelined Rodriguez for six weeks, and he played in just one inning of his third game back from the IL before elbow discomfort forced him out of yesterday’s 5-4 Pirates win over the Phillies.

The exact nature of the elbow issue isn’t known, but it’s a notable red flag given that Rodriguez missed the entire 2024 season due to UCL surgery.  The best-case scenario is that Rodriguez is just feeling some residual soreness perhaps more related to this year’s IL stint than anything lingering from his UCL procedure, but for now, Rodriguez will face additional time on the sidelines.  With only a .173/.246/.250 slash line through his first 57 plate appearances, Rodriguez could also potentially use this absence as a reset on his season.

Rodriguez has split time between first base and catcher when he has been able to play.  For the latter position, sinceJoey Bart is also on the seven-day concussion IL, Sullivan will now head to the majors to joinHenry Davis as Pittsburgh’s catching combo.  Sullivan was acquired in a trade with the Padres in mid-April soon after Rodriguez was placed on the IL with his finger injury, as the Pirates wanted to add to their depth behind the plate.

Sullivan has hit .206/.243/.299 over 103 PA at the big league level (all with San Diego in 2023-24).  Over 11 pro seasons, the 31-year-old has posted some good numbers in the minors, including a .268/.338/.443 slash line and 43 home runs over 1670 Triple-A plate appearances.  Sullivan has been considered a middling defensive catcher, which could explain why he hasn’t received much big league time even while spending most of his career with the Rays and Padres — two clubs that have their share of needs at catcher in recent years.

Wentz is out of minor league options, so the Pirates had to designate the southpaw and expose him to waivers before trying to move him off the 40-man roster.  Pittsburgh acquired Wentz on a waiver claim from the Tigers last September, and he has been decent if unremarkable over 38 innings of bullpen work.  Twenty-six of those innings came this season, with Wentz posting a 4.15 ERA, 19.1% strikeout rate, and 9.6% walk rate.  As per usual, Wentz has performed better against left-handed batters than right-handed batters over his career, though his splits this year (.661 OPS against lefties, .716 OPS against righties) don’t reveal a huge gap.

While his 2025 work remains a smaller sample size, it does represent a big step up from the 6.03 ERA Wentz posted in 173 innings with Detroit and Pittsburgh in 2023-24.  That could be enough for a southpaw-needy team to put in a claim on Wentz’s services, but if he clears waivers, he doesn’t have a prior outright on his resume so he’d have to accept an outright assignment to Indianapolis.

The Pirates announced that left-hander Joey Wentz, whom they claimed off waivers earlier this week, has been added to the active roster. Right-hander Domingo Germán has been designated for assignment as the corresponding move. Prior to the official announcement, Robert Murray of FanSided relayedon X that Germán would be designated for assignment. Earlier in the day, Kevin Gorman of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review was among those to relayon X that Wentz was in the clubhouse while Germán was leaving in street clothes.

The Pirates have claimed left-handerJoey Wentz off waivers from the Tigers, according to announcements from both clubs. The Tigers had designated him for assignment in recent days. The Pirates had an open 40-man spot but will need to open an active roster spot once Wentz reports to the team since he is out of options.

Wentz, now 26, was once a notable prospect. He was selected 40th overall by Atlanta in the 2016 draft and posted some good numbers in the minors before being flipped to the Tigers in theJuly 2019 trade that sentShane Greene the other way. Unfortunately, Wentz required Tommy John surgery in March of 2020, putting him on the shelf for that year and part of 2021. The Tigers nonetheless believed in his future, adding him to their 40-man roster in November of 2020 to keep him out of the Rule 5 draft.

Since coming back from his surgery absence, he has generally posted solid numbers in the minors but not in the majors. Over the 2021-23 seasons, he tossed 154 innings on the farm, allowing 3.97 earned runs per nine innings. His 11.4% walk rate in that time was a bit high but he struck out 26.7% of batters faced. But he had a 5.99 ERA in 138 1/3 major league innings during that same time frame, striking out just 19.9% of batters faced in the big leagues.

He exhausted his option years in that stretch and has been out of options here in 2024. The Tigers kept him in their bullpen for the first few months of the season with some mixed results. He was able to provide them with a multi-inning relief arm, soaking up 55 1/3 frames over 38 outings, but with a 5.37 ERA. His 23.6% strikeout rate and 10.6% walk rate are close to average but his .333 batting average on balls in play and 69.8% strand rate have both been a bit on the unlucky side. His 4.52 FIP and 3.97 SIERA both suggest he deserved better results than he got this year.

Perhaps that is what the Pirates will be banking on, in addition to Wentz’s previous prospect pedigree. They will have to keep him on their active roster due to his out-of-options status but that should be doable with just a few weeks left in the season and the club now out of contention. If they manage to keep Wentz on their roster, he can be retained well into the future. He will finish this season with under two years of service time, meaning he can be retained for five seasons after this one.

2:55pm: The Tigers made these moves official and also announced that right-handerAlex Faedo was transferred to the 60-day IL. He landed on the 15-day IL on August 22 due to a right shoulder strain and the club announced that his season is over, per Cody Stavenhagen of The Athleticon X. Detroit’s 40-man roster count drops to 39.

2:03pm: The Tigers have designated left-handerJoey Wentz for assignment,reports Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press. He’ll be the corresponding roster move for right-handerCasey Mize, who is being reinstated from the 60-day injured list.

Wentz, 26, was the No. 40 overall pick by the Braves back in 2016. The southpaw quickly became one of the more prominent pitching prospects in what was then a stacked Braves farm system and made his way to the Tigers alongside outfielderTravis Demeritte in the trade that sent rightyShane Greene to Atlanta. Wentz made his big league debut with the 2022 Tigers and has pitched for Detroit in each of the past three seasons.

That 2022 cup of coffee proved to be a solid debut effort. Wentz started seven games, totaled 32 2/3 innings and posted a 3.03 earned run average along the way. His 20% strikeout rate and 9.6% walk rate didn’t necessarily stand out, but for a 24-year-old making his debut after just 12 appearances at the Triple-A level, it was an encouraging start all the same.

Unfortunately, that’s the most success Wentz has enjoyed in the majors to date. He appeared in 25 games with the 2023 Tigers — 19 of them starts — and was rocked for a 6.90 ERA with nearly identical strikeout and walk rates to that ’22 debut. Wentz became extremely homer-prone, however, surrendering an average of 2.13 round-trippers per nine innings pitched — the third-worst mark of any pitcher who totaled at least 100 innings last year.

Wentz’s 2024 season has been somewhat better but not enough to save his roster spot. In 55 1/3 innings, he’s pitched to a 5.37 ERA with a career-high 23.6% strikeout rate but also a career-worst 10.6% walk rate. He’s out of minor league options, so the Tigers couldn’t simply send him to Triple-A if they wanted to free up his roster spot. The DFA became a necessity in that regard, and Wentz will now be made available to all 29 other clubs via waivers.

If another club claims him, he’ll need to go right onto the big league roster, as he can’t be sent to the minors without clearing waivers. If he goes unclaimed, he lacks the service time and prior outright needed to reject a minor league assignment. As such, he’d stick with the Tigers as a depth option in Triple-A Toledo without occupying a 40-man roster spot.

The Tigers have designated leftyAnthony Misiewicz for assignment, per a team announcement. His spot on the 40-man roster will go to left-handerZach Logue, whose contract has been selected from Triple-A Toledo (asreported earlier this morning). Left-handerJoey Wentz has been optioned to Triple-A Toledo to open a spot for Logue on the active roster, as expected.

It’s been a tumultuous ten months for the 28-year-old Misiewicz, who had a decent 2020-21 run with the Mariners but has now been on five teams since last August. The Royals acquired Misiewicz from the Mariners just prior to last year’s trade deadline, sending cash to Seattle after the left-hander had been designated for assignment. He’s since bounced to the Cardinals and the Diamondbacks — both in cash trades — and then the Tigers via waiver claim. He’ll now find himself either traded or placed on outright waivers once again.

After pitching to a 4.43 ERA in 102 2/3 innings between Seattle and Kansas City from 2020-22, Misiewicz has been hit hard in both Arizona and Detroit this year. The southpaw has tallied just 8 1/3 frames on the season, yielding eight runs on eight hits (two homers) and three walks. He has a 4.41 ERA and 19-to-6 K/BB ratio in 16 1/3 minor league innings between the Tigers and D-backs organizations so far in 2023.

This year’s struggles notwithstanding, Misiewicz is a 28-year-old lefty who entered the year with a 4.43 ERA, two minor league option seasons remaining (this year included), a roughly average strikeout rate and better-than-average walk rates. This year’s 93.1 mph average fastball is down half a mile from last year’s levels and 1.3 mph from its 2021 peak, but Misiewicz could nonetheless appeal to other clubs looking for left-handed bullpen depth. The Tigers will have a week to find a trade partner or pass him through waivers.