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Tigers Outright Blaine Hardy

By Connor Byrne | March 25, 2018 at 12:52pm CDT

The Tigers announced that left-handed reliever Blaine Hardy has cleared waivers and been outrighted to Triple-A Toledo. The move gives Detroit one open spot on its 40-man roster.

Hardy debuted as a Tiger back in 2014 and has since amassed 159 1/3 frames of 3.62 ERA/3.74 FIP pitching with 7.57 K/9, 3.78 BB/9 and a 42.1 percent groundball rate. While that’s a useful career line, the 31-year-old hurt his stock last season with a dreadful campaign in which he logged a 5.94 ERA/5.38 FIP in 33 1/3 frames. With 7.56 K/9 and 3.51 BB/9, Hardy’s strikeout and walk numbers were normal, but his grounder percentage plummeted to 33.0. That helped lead to a personal-worst 1.89 home runs allowed per nine, a massive increase over Hardy’s career figure (0.68).

Thanks to a shoulder impingement, Hardy wasn’t able to make a case for a roster spot in Detroit this spring. He ended up appearing in just one of the Tigers’ exhibition games before they cut him from their 40-man roster. Because of both that injury and his woeful 2017, no one claimed Hardy, even though he’s cheap ($795K), controllable through 2021 and has a minor league option remaining. Hardy’s 2018 salary would have become guaranteed in two days, making this move all the more painful for him, Evan Woodbery of MLive.com notes.

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  1. trendysayings

    7 years ago

    Making room on the 40-man to re-sign Jairo Labourt, who they never should have DFA’d in the first place? Fingers crossed

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    • tigerdoc616

      7 years ago

      Sure they should have. And two teams picked him up and promptly let him go. He just does not find the strike zone often enough.

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    • Steve Lawrence

      7 years ago

      He’s been released 3 times since then. In a try-out with Oakland he looked so bad they passed on the spot. He’ll land somewhere but not on anyone’s 40. You have to throw strikes.

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    • defan63

      7 years ago

      The guy sucks why resign a guy who couldn’t make 2 other teams ?

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  2. Bocephus

    7 years ago

    Cue up CaseysPartner suggesting the Nats or the Braves should pick him up.

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  3. tigerdoc616

    7 years ago

    Needed the spot for Goodrum who it appears has made the club as a utility player. Hopefully Blaine gets healthy and takes the next step in his career development.

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  4. Steve Lawrence

    7 years ago

    He’s been released 3 times since then. In a try-out with Oakland he looked so bad they passed on the spot. He’ll land somewhere but not on anyone’s 40. You have to throw strikes.

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  5. Phillies2017

    7 years ago

    While It’s not a total shock, I’m at least mildly surprised that he cleared. He was a solid middle reliever before 2017

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    • stymeedone

      7 years ago

      Solid middle reliever is how you describe the 11th pitcher on a 12 man staff. Not really a lot of upside. Even a loogy is an upgrade from that.

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  6. GarryHarris

    7 years ago

    DFA the entire Tiger roster. Less than half get picked up.

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