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- Tigers
- Updated: Jan. 07, 2026, 11:27 a.m.
- Published: Jan. 07, 2026, 11:26 a.m.
DETROIT -- The Detroit Tigers person signed seasoned right-handed reliever Burch Smith to a minor-league contract.
Burch, 35, has sounded successful parts of six big-league seasons for 7 different teams.
He astir precocious was successful nan fields for nan Baltimore Orioles successful 2024. He spent past play successful nan Pittsburgh Pirates’ organization.
Smith besides has stints successful Japan (2022) and Korea (2023) and has sounded good this wintertime successful nan Dominican Republic.
Drafted by nan San Diego Padres retired of nan University of Oklahoma successful 2011, Smith made his big-league debut successful 2013 but didn’t transportation again successful nan fields until 2018. In between, he was traded, underwent Tommy John room and was selected successful nan Rule 5 Draft.
TIGERS’ NOTABLE MINOR-LEAGUE SIGNINGS
- RHP Tanner Rainey (re-signed)
- C Tomas Nido (re-signed)
- RHP Matt Seelinger (re-signed)
- RHP Cole Waites
- RHP Scott Effross
- RHP Dylan File
- RHP Inohan Paniagua
- LHP Enmanuel De Jesus
- LHP Carlos Peña (re-signed)
- RHP Tyler Mattison (re-signed)
- RHP Woo-Suk Go (re-signed)
- RHP Jack Little (re-signed)
- LHP Sean Guenther (re-signed)
- RHP Dugan Darnell (re-signed)
- RHP Burch Smith
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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...
