Detroit Tigers minor league players

Sergio Junior Alcántara Hernández (born July 10, 1996) is a Dominican professional baseball infielder in the Detroit Tigers organization.

Alcántara signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks as an international free agent in July 2012. He made his professional debut in 2013 with the AZL Diamondbacks and spent the whole season there, slashing .243/.398/.320 with 16 RBIs in 48 games. In 2014, he played for the Missoula Osprey where he batted .244 with one home run and 18 RBIs in 70 games, and in 2015, he played for the Kane County Cougars and Hillsboro Hops where he posted a combined .223 batting average with one home run and 28 RBIs in 91 total games between the two teams. He spent 2016 with the AZL Diamondbacks, Hillsboro, Kane County and the Visalia Rawhide, compiling a .284 batting average with one home run and 26 RBIs in 76 total games. He began 2017 back with Visalia.

On July 18, 2017 the Diamondbacks traded Alcántara along with Dawel Lugo and Jose King to the Detroit Tigers for J. D. Martinez.[1] Detroit assigned him to the Lakeland Flying Tigers and he finished the season there. In 121 total games between Visalia and Lakeland, he slashed .266/.334/.339 with three home runs, 35 RBIs, and a .673 OPS.[2]

The Tigers added Alcántara to their 40-man roster after the 2017 season.[3] In 2018, he spent the full season with the Double-A Erie SeaWolves, where he hit .271 with a home run, 37 RBIs, and eighteen doubles. For the second straight season, Alcantara would remain at the Double-A level for the full season. Playing in 102 games (18 fewer than in 2018) he finished the season with a .247 average and .346 OBP. He hit two home runs, had 27 RBIs, but walked 48 times, six times more than in 2018.

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Jose Enrique Azocar (born May 11, 1996) is a Venezuelan professional baseball outfielder in the Detroit Tigers organization.

Azocar signed with the Detroit Tigers as an international free agent in October 2012 and would make his professional debut in 2013 with the VSL Tigers (the Venezuelan Summer League). He would then join the short-season single-a Connecticut Tigers in 2015, before quickly being sent to the GCL Tigers roster, where he was named a 2015 Post Season All-Star. He hit .325 with 29 RBIs and ten doubles to go with five triples. His play warranted a call-up for the 2016 season to the West Michigan Whitecaps, where he spent the entire year. He made another jump in play up to high-A Lakeland for 2017, however despite seeing his first professional home runs (he would hit three), his average would drop from .281 in 2016 to .220 in 2017.

Azocar would spend 2018 in both West Michigan and Lakeland. He would start 2019 with the Erie SeaWolves. As of May 11, 2019, he possessed the third-highest batting average in the Eastern League with a .336 clip.[4] His average would ultimately take a down-tick, but it would be sitting at .293 when, on June 24, he was named to the Eastern League All-Star Game for the Western Division.[5] He would be named the Eastern League Rookie of the Year for 2019, becoming the first SeaWolves' player to earn the honor. At time of honoring, he led the league in hits with 136, was tied for third-highest batting average in the league (.284), had 39 multi-hit games, and also had ten home runs and 56 RBIs.[6] He tied for the lead in the minor leagues in 2019 by grounding into 22 double plays.[7] Azocar was resigned after becoming a minor league free agent on November 7, 2019.[8]

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Beau Van Burrows (born September 18, 1996) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization.

Burrows attended Weatherford High School in Weatherford, Texas.[9][10] In 2015, as a senior, he went 9–3 with a 0.89 ERA, striking out 132 in 71 innings.[11] He was selected by the Tigers in the first round of the 2015 MLB draft.[12][13][14] He signed with the Tigers, forgoing his commitment to play college baseball at Texas A&M University.[15]

Burrows made his professional debut in 2015 with the GCL Tigers and spent the whole season there, posting a 1–0 record with a 1.61 ERA in ten games (nine starts). After his success in the Gulf Coast League, Burrows was promoted to the West Michigan Whitecaps for the 2016 season. He spent the whole season there and posted a 6–4 record with a 3.15 ERA in 21 games (20 being starts).[16] In 2017, Burrows spent time with both the Lakeland Flying Tigers and the Erie SeaWolves, posting a combined 10–7 record and 3.20 ERA in 26 combined starts between both teams.[17] He spent 2018 with Erie, pitching to a 10–9 record with a 4.10 ERA in 26 starts.[18]

Burrows began 2019 with the Toledo Mud Hens. Burrows struggled with injuries over the course of the 2019 season and would ultimately start just 15 games in Toledo. He finished with a 2–6 record and 5.51 ERA in Toledo.

Burrows was added to the Tigers 40–man roster following the 2019 season.[19]

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Anthony Silfredo Castro (born April 13, 1995) is a Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization.

Castro signed with the Detroit Tigers as an international free agent in July 2011 and would spend all of 2012 and 2013 with the VSL Tigers. In 2014, he played for the GCL Tigers and would go on to post a 6–3 record and 4.10 ERA over thirteen games, with twelve starts. He would, however, miss all of 2015 as a result of Tommy John surgery and against spent 2016 with the GCL Tigers, finally making his full-season Tigers organization debut in 2017 with the West Michigan Whitecaps. That season he posted a 10–6 record with a 2.49 ERA as a starter, only allowing opponents to hit .226 off of him.

He impressed in 2018 with the Lakeland Flying Tigers with a 9–4 record, 2.93 ERA, and a career-high 101 strikeouts. He earned a brief two-week call-up that season to the AA Erie SeaWolves where he started three games and returned to Lakeland having posted an 8.10 ERA, but only allowing a .229 average off of him. In 2019, Castro would spend the season with Erie and start pitching out of the bullpen. After four appearances, however, he would return to a role as a starter.[20] He gained notoriety within the Tigers' organization as he held opponent to a career-low .207 average against and would earn a spot in the top-twenty Tigers prospects for the mid-season update of the MLB.com organizational listing.[21] Castro was resigned after becoming a minor league free agent on November 7, 2019.[22]

Castro was added to the Tigers 40–man roster following the 2019 season.[23]

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Ethan DeCaster (born October 27, 1994) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization.

DeCaster attended Creighton University for his first three years of eligibility, and subsequently transferred to Duke University as a graduate transfer. As a freshman at Creighton, he developed his side-arm style of pitching as a result of an injury suffered.[24] He would end his career as a Bluejay with a 2.42 ERA over 75 appearances, all coming in relief.[25] At Duke, he was named to the Second Team NCBWA All-American team after going 6–0 in relief with a 1.34 ERA, and 57 strikeouts to just six walks.[26]

DeCaster was drafted by the Tigers as an 18th round pick in the 2018 MLB Draft, and would be assigned to the GCL Tigers shortly after the draft. After merely two games, a stint lasting eight days, DeCaster would be called up to the Connecticut Tigers, where he spent under a month before moving up to the single-A West Michigan Whitecaps. He would see one game of action in Lakeland as well, for the Lakeland Flying Tigers, and would finish the 2018 campaign with a cumulative 0.84 ERA over 32 innings pitched. Opponents would only manage a .173 average off him.

DeCaster would continue his rise through the Tigers minor league ranks in 2019 as after just seven more games to start the season in Lakeland, he would be called up to the Erie SeaWolves. Throughout the season, DeCaster would shuffle between Erie and the Toledo Mud Hens, where he would not give up a run through his first six appearances. In less than 365 days, DeCaster was able to move from getting drafted to the Triple-A Mud Hens' roster.[27]

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Mark Edward Ecker (born May 27, 1995) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers organization.

Ecker attended Sandra Day O'Connor High School in Helotes, Texas.[28] In 2013, as a senior, he went 8–2 with a 1.19 ERA.[29] He was not drafted out of high school in the 2014 MLB draft, and he enrolled at Texas A&M University, where he played college baseball for the Texas A&M Aggies.[30][31] As a junior in 2016, he went 4–2 with a 0.39 ERA in 46.2 relief innings pitched,[32] earning him a spot on the All-SEC Second Team along with being named an All-American by Baseball America.[33] After the season, the Detroit Tigers selected Ecker in the fifth round of the 2016 MLB draft.[34]

Ecker signed with Detroit and was assigned to the Connecticut Tigers. After posting a 0.50 ERA through 18 innings, he was promoted to the West Michigan Whitecaps where he finished the season, posting a 1.86 ERA in 9.2 innings. In 2017, he played for both the Lakeland Flying Tigers and the Erie SeaWolves, pitching to a combined 2–4 record and 3.06 ERA in 51 relief appearances between both teams. Ecker spent 2018 with Erie, compiling a 4–6 record with a 3.66 ERA in 44 appearances in relief.[35] He returned to Erie to begin 2019.

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Rony Javier García (born December 19, 1997) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization.

García signed with the New York Yankees as an international free agent on July 2, 2015.[36] He split the 2016 season between the DSL Yankees and the GCL Yankees, going 3–5 with a 2.28 ERA over 71 innings. He split the 2017 season between the Pulaski Yankees and the Charleston RiverDogs, going a combined 2–3 with a 2.50 ERA over 75.2 innings. He split the 2018 season between Charleston and the Tampa Tarpons, going a combined 4–9 with a 4.31 ERA over 119 innings. He split the 2019 season between Tampa and the Trenton Thunder, going a combined 4–13 with a 4.01 ERA over 130.1 innings.[37]

On December 12, 2019, García was selected by the Detroit Tigers with the 1st selection in the 2019 Rule 5 draft.[38]

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Gerson Moreno
Detroit Tigers
Pitcher
Born: (1995-09-10) September 10, 1995 Yamasa, Dominican Republic
Bats: Right Throws: Right

Gerson Mateo Moreno Vizcaino (born September 10, 1995) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization.

Moreno signed with the Detroit Tigers as an international free agent in October 2012. He spent 2013 with the DSL Tigers going 2–1 with a 2.88 ERA. In 2014, he played for the GCL Tigers, posting a 1–1 record and 4.40 ERA. He spent time with both the Connecticut Tigers and the West Michigan Whitecaps, posting a combined 2–5 record and 2.89 ERA in 37.1 innings pitched between both teams. In 2016, he played for both West Michigan and the Lakeland Flying Tigers, going 1–4 with a 3.99 ERA in 44 combined games. He spent 2017 with Lakeland and the Erie SeaWolves, posting a combined 1–3 record and 4.47 ERA between both teams.[39] After the 2017 season, he played in the Arizona Fall League.[40] The Tigers also added him to their 40-man roster after the 2017 season.[3] On May 30, 2018, the Tigers released Moreno but then resigned him to a minor league contract on June 6, 2018.[41]

He was assigned to AA Erie and was placed on the injured list to start the 2019 season as a result of Tommy John surgery that he had upon being re-signed to the Tigers organization in 2018.[42]

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Bryant Thomas Packard (born October 6, 1997) is an American professional baseball outfielder in the Detroit Tigers organization.

Quintana attended East Carolina University from 2017-2019. After featuring in a supporting role as a freshman, he had a breakout sophomore year batting .406 with a .462 OBP. He hit 14 home runs with 50 RBIs and was named to seven All-American teams, including five as a first-team selection. He was the AAC Conference Player of the Year and a unanimous selection to the All-AAC First Team. He was named on the preseason Golden Spikes Award watchlist entering his junior year. He would hit .358 as a junior with a .444 OBP, aided by walking nine times more as a junior than a sophomore. He would hit seven home runs, a career-high 19 doubles, and finished with 40 RBIs.[43]

Quintana was taken in the fifth round of the 2019 MLB Draft. He would start his career in the Detroit Tigers system with A-Short Season Connecticut Tigers.[44] Over 11 games, he would hit .351 with a .432 OBP, walking six times compared to just nine strikeouts. He would then join the Single-A West Michigan Whitecaps where he would continue his upward descent. After hitting .309 with a .404 OBP, along with three home runs and 12 RBIs, in 23 games, he would end his 2019 season with the A-Advanced Lakeland Flying Tigers. Packard spent five games with Lakeland ending with a pair of hits and a pair of RBIs. Ahead of the 2020 season, which was set to be his first full professional campaign, he was named the Tigers' #17 prospect according to MLB.com[45]

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Isaac Edgardo Paredes (born February 18, 1999) is a Mexican professional baseball shortstop in the Detroit Tigers organization.

Paredes signed with the Chicago Cubs as an international free agent in July 2015. He made his professional debut in 2016 with the Arizona League Cubs and posted a .305 batting average with one home run and 26 RBIs in 47 games. He played in three games with the South Bend Cubs that season. He started 2017 with the South Bend Cubs.[46]

On July 31, 2017, Paredes was traded along with Jeimer Candelario to the Detroit Tigers in exchange for Alex Avila and Justin Wilson.[47] The Tigers assigned him to the West Michigan Whitecaps where he spent the remainder of the season. In 124 total games between South Bend and West Michigan he batted .252 with 11 home runs and 70 RBIs.[48] He spent 2018 splitting time between the Lakeland Flying Tigers and Erie SeaWolves where he hit .278 with 15 home runs and seventy RBIs over the course of 123 games with the two teams. He returned to Erie to begin 2019. That summer, Paredes was named to the 2019 All-Star Futures Game.[49] He was selected to play in the Arizona Fall League for the Mesa Solar Sox following the season.[50] He would finish the season with 13 home runs, 66 RBIs, a .282 average, and 57 walks to 61 strikeouts with an OBP of .368.

Paredes was added to the Tigers 40–man roster following the 2019 season.[51]

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Wenceel Xavier Perez (born October 30, 1999) is a Dominican professional baseball shortstop in the Detroit Tigers organization.

Perez signed with the Tigers as an international free agent in July 2016, and would be assigned to the DSL Tigers as his first professional stop a year later in 2017. Over his first 61 games, he would hit .314 with a .387 OBP, while walking 27 times compared to 21 strikeouts. He would also steal sixteen bases and earn a call-up to the GCL Tigers in 2018. Perez quickly earned a jump up to the short season single-A Connecticut Tigers after hitting .383 with a .462 OBP in his twenty games, and he would be called up to the West Michigan Whitecaps after just a month in Connecticut.

Perez made an impact in his debut in West Michigan with a four-for-four night including two runs scored. He would hit .309 with West Michigan over sixteen games, and would begin his 2019 season with the Whitecaps. He was named to the Detroit Tigers' Top 30 Prospects List by MLB.com ahead of the 2019 season at #12.[52] He spent the full 2019 season with West Michigan. Over 124 games, Perez batted .233 with an OBP of .299. He hit three home runs, 16 doubles, six triples, and finished with 30 RBIs while stealing 21 bases.

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Wladimir Ramon Pinto (born February 12, 1998) is a Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization.

Pinto signed with the Detroit Tigers as an international free agent in 2014.[53] He played for the Venezuelan Summer League Tigers in 2015, going 2–1 with a 3.90 ERA over ​27 ²⁄₃ innings. In 2016, he played for the Gulf Coast Tigers and went 1–1 with a 2.66 ERA over ​23 ²⁄₃ innings. He split the 2017 season between the Connecticut Tigers and the West Michigan Whitecaps, going a combined 1–0 with a 0.00 ERA over 10 innings. He split the 2018 season between West Michigan and the Lakeland Flying Tigers, going a combined 4–2 with a 4.50 ERA and 77 strikeouts over 50 innings.[54] He split the 2019 season between Lakeland and the Erie SeaWolves, going a combined 3–4 with a 2.34 ERA and 87 strikeouts over ​61 ²⁄₃ innings.[55][56] He played for the Mesa Solar Sox in the Arizona Fall League following the 2019 season.[57][58]

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Nicholas Ryan Quintana (born October 13, 1997) is an American professional baseball infielder in the Detroit Tigers organization.

Quintana attended the University of Arizona following a high school career at Arbor View High School in Las Vegas. He was named to the First Team All-Pac-12 for the first time as a sophomore after hitting .313 with fourteen home runs and 55 RBIs over the season. He would repeat the achievement as a junior in 2019 improving upon the prior year's numbers leaping to a .342 batting average, fifteen home runs, and 77 RBIs while improving his OBP from .413 to .462. He was named Collegiate Baseball Second Team All-American, as well a NCBWA Third Team All-American.[59] In 2017 and 2018, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Yarmouth–Dennis Red Sox of the Cape Cod Baseball League.[60][61]

Quintana was taken in the second round of the 2019 MLB Draft with the 47th overall pick. This was his second time being selected in the MLB Draft, having previously been selected in the eleventh round of the 2016 MLB Draft by the Boston Red Sox. He would immediately join the Single-A West Michigan Whitecaps and also would be named the organization's sixteenth best prospect (second-highest of the 2019 draft class) in MLB.com's mid-season update.[62] Despite starting in West Michigan, after a slow start hitting just .158 with a .228 OBP while striking out 51 times in 41 games, he would take a step down to the short season Single-A Connecticut Tigers in early-August.[63]

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Paul Douglas Richan (born March 26, 1997) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization.

Richan attended Hart High School in Newhall, California.[64] In 2015, his senior year, he went 5-2 with a 1.65 ERA and 71 strikeouts. Undrafted in the 2015 Major League Baseball draft, he enrolled at the University of San Diego (USD) where he played college baseball.

In 2016, as a freshman at USD, Richan appeared in 13 games (making one start), pitching to a 1-1 record with an 8.88 ERA with twenty strikeouts over 24 innings.[65] As a sophomore in 2017, he pitched in 18 games (11 starts), going 5-2 with a 3.05 ERA,[66][67] earning All-West Coast Conference Honorable Mention.[68] In 2018, his junior season, Richan transitioned into a full-time starter, pitching to a 4-6 record with a 4.62 ERA across 13 starts, striking out 101 in ​89 ²⁄₃ innings.[69] After his junior year, Richan was selected by the Chicago Cubs in the second round (78th overall) of the 2018 Major League Baseball draft.[70][71]

Richan signed with the Cubs and made his professional debut with the Eugene Emeralds. Over ten games (nine starts), he went 0-2 with a 2.12 ERA, striking out 31 and walking only five across ​29 ²⁄₃ innings.[72][73] In 2019, he began the year with the Myrtle Beach Pelicans with whom he was named a Florida State League All-Star.[74]

On July 31, 2019, Richan was traded along with Alex Lange to the Detroit Tigers in exchange for Nicholas Castellanos.[75] He was assigned to the Lakeland Flying Tigers, and finished the season there. Over 22 starts between Myrtle Beach and Lakeland, Richan pitched to a 12-7 record and a 4.00 ERA, striking out 115 over ​123 ²⁄₃ innings.

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Elvin Miguel Rodríguez (born March 31, 1998) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization.

Rodríguez signed with the Los Angeles Angels as an international free agent on July 4, 2014.[76] He spent his professional debut season of 2015 with the DSL Angels, going 0–6 with a 4.59 over 51 innings. He split the 2016 season between the DSL and the AZL Angels, going a combined 4–2 with a 1.53 ERA over ​58 ²⁄₃ innings. He split the 2017 season between the Orem Owlz and the Burlington Bees, going a combined 5–3 with a 2.91 ERA over 68 innings.[77] He was named the Pioneer League Pitcher of the Year.[78] On September 15, 2017, Rodríguez was traded to the Detroit Tigers as the PTBNL in the Justin Upton trade.[79]

Rodríguez spent the 2018 season with the West Michigan Whitecaps, going 8–7 with a 3.34 ERA over ​113 ¹⁄₃ innings.[80] He spent the 2019 season with the Lakeland Flying Tigers, going 11–9 with a 3.77 ERA over ​133 ²⁄₃ innings.[81]

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Troy William Stokes (born February 2, 1996) is an American professional baseball outfielder in the Detroit Tigers organization.

Stokes attended Calvert Hall College High School in Baltimore, Maryland. He was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers in the fourth round of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft.[82]

Stokes signed with Milwaukee and made his professional debut with the Arizona League Brewers, hitting .262 over 47 games. In 2015, he played with the Helena Brewers, slashing .270/.384/.407 with five home runs, 27 RBIs, and 26 stolen bases over 62 games, and in 2016, he played for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers with whom he hit .268 with four home runs and 29 RBIs in 86 games. Stokes played 2017 with the Carolina Mudcats and Biloxi Shuckers,[83] batting .251 with twenty home runs, 74 RBIs, and 31 stolen bases over 135 total games. He played for Biloxi in 2018, hitting .233 with 19 home runs and 58 RBIs in 129 games, and won a minor league Gold Glove Award.[84] The Brewers added him to their 40-man roster after the 2018 season.[85] On September 1, 2019, Stokes Jr. was designated for assignment. On September 3, he was claimed by the Detroit Tigers.

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Daniel Christopher Woodrow (born January 26, 1995) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Detroit Tigers organization.

The Tigers chose Woodrow in the twelfth round of the 2016 MLB draft out of Creighton University. Woodrow had just completed his junior season as a Bluejay and he led his team in average (.343), stolen bases (32), hits (79), and runs (44). Upon his selection, he was praised by his head coach at Creighton as well as a Tigers scout for his speed.[86]

He was initially assigned to the Tigers' GCL West roster, but after hitting .351 with five stolen bases over 18 games, he would finish the season with the Connecticut Tigers. Woodrow continued to progress and in 2017, he played for the Single-A West Michigan Whitecaps for the entire season. Woodrow would hit .271 with an OBP of .341, while also stealing 31 bases for the Whitecaps. In 2018, Woodrow spent five games with the Lakeland Flying Tigers, stealing four bases in five games, but would then be called up to Double-A Erie SeaWolves for the remainder of the season. With Erie, Woodrow hit .313 with a .369 OBP and hit his first career professional home run. He would finish with three home runs on the season and 37 RBI, to go along with nineteen stolen bases.

He would then spend the 2019 in Toledo with the Triple-A Toledo Mudhens.[87] He was named to his first MLB.com Top 30 Prospects list for the Tigers organization, entering the preseason ranked 22nd in the organization. He would peak (as of June 15, 2019) at 19th on the list.[88] He spent the entire 2019 season with Toledo and would end the season with a .274 average along with 23 stolen bases, 18 XBHs, including a home run, and 32 RBIs.

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