4 months ago
- Tigers
- Updated: Jan. 06, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
- Published: Jan. 06, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
DETROIT -- Veteran catcher Brian Serven, who spent 2025 pinch nan Detroit Tigers’ Triple-A connection successful Toledo, has signed a minor-league woody pinch nan Athletics.
Serven, 30, has played successful parts of 3 big-league seasons, including a little stint pinch nan Toronto Blue Jays successful 2024.
He missed astir of outpouring training owed to wounded and past spent astir of nan play arsenic a backup to Tomas Nido successful Triple-A Toledo.
Nido has re-signed pinch nan Tigers connected a minor-league deal.
A California native, Serven played assemblage shot astatine Arizona State and was drafted successful nan 5th information successful 2016 by nan Colorado Rockies.
He made his debut for nan Rockies successful 2022, played sparingly successful 2023, and past bounced astir nan waiver ligament successful 2024 earlier landing pinch nan Jays.
In 62 games pinch nan Mud Hens, Serven deed .232 pinch a .648 OPS (85 wRC+).
The Tigers added young catchers Eduardo Valencia and Thayron Liranzo to nan 40-man roster this winter. Valencia seems likeliest to beryllium paired pinch Nido astatine Toledo successful 2026.
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Evan Woodbery has covered nan Detroit Tigers and Major League Baseball for MLive.com since 2016. He has antecedently covered nan Saints/NFL for The Times-Picayune/NOLA.com; University of Tennessee athletics for...
