Tigers right-handed prospect Franklin Perez will undergo surgery on his pitching shoulder, Evan Woodbery of MLive.com relays. Manager A.J. Hinch said the hurler “will be out awhile.”
This is the latest in a growing line of injury woes for Perez, whom shoulder and lat troubles have hampered throughout his professional career. As a result, Perez has thrown only 27 minor league innings in the Detroit organization since it acquired him from Houston in a 2017 blockbuster centering on ace Justin Verlander.
It was easy to see why the Tigers wanted Perez as part of their return when the Verlander deal occurred. He was a highly regarded and productive prospect with the Astros who then topped out as Baseball America’s 35th-ranked farmhand and No. 1 in the Tigers’ system in 2018. BA wrote then that Perez didn’t seem far away from joining the Tigers, and it contended he could have a future as a mid-rotation starter. Unfortunately, that hasn’t come to fruition yet for the 23-year-old, who hasn’t climbed above the High-A level since Detroit landed him. BA now places him a much less promising 28th in the team’s system.
Perez is on the Tigers’ 40-man roster right now, though it remains to be seen whether he’ll keep his spot in the wake of his latest setback. As Woodbery points out, Perez is in his final option season, which will make it even more difficult for him to stay in the organization heading into 2022.
As a tigers fan I really want to like this kid.
Same here but his career is most likely done. Makes the JV trade look even worse.
It seems that Perez is doomed to be perpetually injured.
I, too, wanted him to succeed. Maybe it is time the Tigers contacted former Tiger Dr. Mike Marshall to see if he can help him following surgery. We need to remember that Marshall threw over 200 innings in one season coming out of the bullpen.. What’s the worse can happen?
Only 27 innings thrown in 4 years? It is way too convenient that these injuries piled up as soon as he was traded. Did anyone on the Tigers actually look at his medical records before agreeing to this ridiculous trade? This is a perfect representation of the Al Avila regime. Someone needs to be fired for this.
The worst part of all this madness is that the Tigers knew they should’ve ran this by tigersfan81, but went ahead with the trade anyways. Heads will roll, lol.
It’s comments like that about Avila that shows a lack of knowledge about baseball how in the hell would he know this kid was going to be injury prone? My God by a vowel get a clue
If anyone needs a clue it’s the GM. Avila is making Randy Smith look marginally good.
Randy Smith gets a bad rap. Owner Mike illicit often interfered and changed the direction and what type of team he wanted to field. The Tigers were looking good in 1997 under Buddy Bell but the entire starting pitching staff went to bits. Likely due to the rise of steroids. Bell was fired and the team direction changed. This happened more than once.
Avila can go anytime now.
Rinse & repeat
Idc but you guys need to here this. If you think Gibson would be as good as Degrom If they both played today than you’re wrong. Same with most pitchers who might have had betters stats. Degrom had a better fastball, slider and change up than Gibson had. And I’m sure Degrom slider was better than Gibson curve…
Excuse me. What article did you just read? ( oh look! A squirrel! )
“here this”
15 year old Dannyboy the Metsfan.
He’ll be kissing his Polar Bear poster before bed tonight. He’d throw darts at his Bobby Bonilla poster but he doesn’t really know who he is…..
Gibson who?
2 Franklin’s down in the same day. The injury gods better keep their hands off Franklin the Turtle.
Al Avila traded away JV JD Castellanos & has nothing to show for it. Fire him already!!!
Don’t forget the returns for Justin Upton, Mike Fiers, Shane Greene.
Al Avila had two wins: Jeimer Candelario for Alex Avila and Justin Wilson and Willie Castro for Leonys Martin.
So, why do we still hear calls for Michael Fulmer and Mathew Boyd to be traded away when we already know Al Avila will get more broken down waiver wire trash in return?
How many of the guys the Tigers traded had legitimate trade value to capitalize on?
JD should never have been traded. He should of been kept until seasons end where he would of turned down the QO and in return the Tigers get the compensation pick in the following draft. I would have bet my money on that pick rather than the complete garbage we got from Arizona.
Tigers should have held on to JV and traded him during the off-season. Houston is still laughing about that deal.
All.
All of them HAD LEGITIMATE TRADE VALUE!
Remember, this is the country that gave the world…the pet rock…..or sold it the pet rock, rather.
Yeah. It’s called HAVING SKILLS.
He should be moving anybody and everybody he can….even if it is just out of MERCY to the players who are performing well!
Franklin Perez should be a slam dunk for a fourth option year.
Sad. So sad.
So am I going to get verbally thrashed because I think it’s time for Al Avila to go as well? Granted he could not see any of these injuries coming, and Perez was very healthy as an Astro. But taking a good hard look at what Avila has accomplished thus far in this rebuild, I would like to know what has he done that’s worked out? The FA signings? The JD Martinez trade? The JV trade? His drafts? I mean yeah we may have a few hits in the draft like Torkelson and Riley Greene. But what about three HUGE lists of Free Agent/Draft Picks/Trade pickups that are awful? Jordan Zimmerman (FA), Issac Paredes (trade), Daz Cameron (trade), every pick ACCEPT for Mize, Skubal, Tork and Greene? I mean really what has he done that is really working yet after all these years? Not being negative just honest folks.
No thrashing from me. Worse, when a free agent is signed, it’s for the intent of trading away if that players is any good. If the player a bust, they just eat the contract. Ultimately, the Tigers act as a rehabilitation for contending teams. To me, that’s sending the wrong message to the other players.
Every unfortunate aspect of this apparently permanent Detroit Tigers decommission is on heir owner Chris Ilitch, who seemingly cares not judging from his inaction.
He owns the junk trailer in the neighborhood, with the half-stripped carcass of his illegitimate grandmother’s stolen 1983 Plymouth Reliant half-mired in muck next to his bent and rusted carport, the car down to 3% coverage from the torn remnants of a blue tarp flapping in the wintry chill. Ilitch’s disgusted neighbors call that car “Miggy”.
Detroit Tigers have once again become to baseball what Little Caesar’s is to pizza – cheap pizza for people who don’t appreciate the real thing. And I am a Tigers fan!
Young enough where he can hopefully heal up and have a decent MLB career.