{"id":408896,"date":"2025-11-27T18:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/408896\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T18:30:13","slug":"tigers-re-sign-tanner-rainey-to-minor-league-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/408896\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Re-Sign Tanner Rainey To Minor League Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tigers have re-signed right-hander Tanner Rainey<\/a><\/strong> to a minor league contract, according to Rainey\u2019s MLB.com profile page.\u00a0 Rainey returns to Motown a week after he was designated for assignment, and then cut loose at the non-tender deadline.<\/p>\n

MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz projected<\/a> that Rainey would earn $1.6MM in arbitration, so the non-tender allowed the Tigers to save some money and still bring the righty back on a non-guaranteed deal.\u00a0 The terms of Rainey\u2019s minor league pact aren\u2019t known, but if he is selected to Detroit\u2019s active roster, his guaranteed salary will probably clock in south of that $1.6MM estimate.<\/p>\n

The 2025 season was a rough one for Rainey, who posted an 11.17 ERA over 9 2\/3 innings and 13 appearances for the Pirates and Tigers.\u00a0 Signed to a minor league deal by Pittsburgh last winter, his stint with the Bucs ended up being two stints, as he re-signed with the team again in June after he elected free agency rather than accept an outright assignment.\u00a0 The Pirates released Rainey entirely in July, and he caught on with the Tigers shortly thereafter and spent much of his time at Triple-A Toledo, save for two games in the bigs.<\/p>\n

Rainey (who turns 33 on Christmas Day) is a veteran of eight MLB seasons, and was a solid member of the Nationals\u2019 bullpen earlier in his career.\u00a0 Control problems plagued Rainey even in his better years, and his production has gone totally south since he missed almost all of the 2023 season recovering from a Tommy John surgery.\u00a0 His 2024 season saw him post a 4.76 ERA, an uncharacteristically low 19% strikeout rate, and an ungainly 12.6% walk rate across 51 relief innings for Washington, and he showed even less during his brief time in the Show in 2025.<\/p>\n

The right-hander\u2019s Triple-A numbers provide some hope for optimism, as Rainey had a 2.88 ERA and 32% strikeout rate over 40 2\/3 innings for the Tigers\u2019 and Pirates\u2019 top affiliates in 2025.\u00a0 Those numbers did come alongside an outsized 13.6% walk rate, but Detroit clearly saw enough in Rainey\u2019s performance to warrant a new contract.\u00a0 There\u2019s no risk for the Tigers in bringing Rainey to camp and letting him compete for a bullpen job, and he could end up being a hidden gem if he can recapture any of his pre-surgery form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tigers have re-signed right-hander Tanner Rainey to a minor league contract, according to Rainey\u2019s MLB.com profile page.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":408897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,130112,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-408896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tanner-rainey","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115623088963635348","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}