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Tigers Acquire Dustin Garneau From Rockies

By Anthony Franco | August 18, 2021 at 5:38pm CDT

The Tigers announced they’ve acquired catcher Dustin Garneau from the Rockies in exchange for cash considerations. Garneau was on a minor league deal and hasn’t played in the majors this season, which is why he was eligible to be traded even after the July 30 deadline. That’s about to change, however, as Detroit immediately selected Garneau to the big leagues, optioning outfielder Jacob Robson to Triple-A Toledo in a corresponding move. To clear space on the 40-man roster, Detroit transferred catcher Jake Rogers from the 10-day to the 60-day injured list.

Garneau signed a minor league deal with Detroit over the offseason. He missed a good bit of the season due to a wrist fracture and exercised an opt-out in his minor league deal last month after just 60 plate appearances with Toledo. The 34-year-old hooked on with the Rockies — his first big league organization — on a minor league deal in late July.

Assigned to their top affiliate in Albuquerque, Garneau has gone on to hit .229/.357/.400. That’s not overwhelming production, but the Tigers are obviously familiar with Garneau from his earlier stint in the organization. With teams’ options to acquire players rather limited, it’s understandable Detroit circled back to a respected veteran backstop who has some Spring Training and Triple-A experience working with members of their pitching staff. The cash was likely a nominal consideration for the Rockies, but there’s little harm for Colorado in allowing Garneau to get a big league opportunity elsewhere if they weren’t prepared to offer him one themselves.

Tigers starting catcher Eric Haase is unavailable this evening after leaving last night’s game with low back tightness. That left Grayson Greiner as the only viable defensive catcher on the roster, so the Tigers acted quickly to bring in Garneau for depth.

Rogers was part of that catching group earlier this season, but he hasn’t played since landing on the injured list on July 17 with a pronator strain in his right arm. Today’s IL transfer rules him out for sixty days from the date of his original placement, so he can’t return to the big leagues until mid-September at the earliest.

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25 Comments

  1. Albert Belle's corked bat

    4 years ago

    Tiger’s news is so boring. Like, really, who cares about the Tigers?

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    • falconsball1993

      4 years ago

      Care if I save this post for next year?

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      • Albert Belle's corked bat

        4 years ago

        PLEASE! Four years from now, they will make the playoffs.

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        • falconsball1993

          4 years ago

          You said Tigers news is boring, nothing about the playoffs. The Tigers will be exciting news in less than 6 months

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    • The Saber-toothed Superfife

      4 years ago

      Really, there’s just no end to the amount of harm one.little jerk like Fidel Castro can impose on the world…..
      D@mn communists!

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    • ljsmith11

      4 years ago

      Well you care enough to comment on them and troll their news feed.

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    • detroitfan69

      4 years ago

      Probably a lot of people care about the Tigers

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    • stymeedone

      4 years ago

      albertbellescorkedbat opinion is so boring! Who cares about his opinion anyway?

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    • sweet lou 4 hof

      4 years ago

      If you don’t care about the Tigers, don’t read the posts. Problem solved.

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  2. Arnold Ziffel

    4 years ago

    First Arenado, now this, what are the Rockies thinking?

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    • The Baseball Fan

      4 years ago

      Agreed, the White Sox legend himself going to another ball club is not comprehensible, this man is a first ballot hall of gamer for sure

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      • The Baseball Fan

        4 years ago

        Famer*

        (It might not need to be corrected because we already know what I’m trying to say because it’s so freaking obvious

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  3. The Baseball Fan

    4 years ago

    )*

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  4. TikTok Influencer

    4 years ago

    THE DETROIT TIGERS HAVE BEEN BANNED FROM MLB FOR COMPLETING AN ILLEGAL TRADE AFTER THE TRADE DEADLINE. TAKING THEIR PLACE IN MLB WILL BE THE LAS VEGAS AVIATORS. TAKING LAS VEGAS’ PLACE IN AAA WILL BE THE PORTLAND SEA DOGS. TAKING PORTLAND’S PLACE IN AA WILL BE THE WINSTON-SALEM DASH. TAKING WINSTON-SALEM’S PLACE IN HIGH-A WILL BE THE MYRTLE BEACH PELICANS. TAKING MYRTLE BEACH’S PLACE IN LOW-A WILL BE A FORMER LOW-A AFFILIATE, THE KANE COUNTY COUGARS. THIS CONCLUDES THIS SPECIAL EDITION BULLETIN OF OFFICIAL MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL UPDATES.

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    • The Baseball Fan

      4 years ago

      Thank you for the news. Please take an Uber home instead of driving.

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      • TikTok Influencer

        4 years ago

        I would rather take a Boober home. Boober = Uber + Hooters

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    • windmill_noise_causes_cancer

      4 years ago

      *crickets*

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  5. GarryHarris

    4 years ago

    This means more Grayson Greiner. I wasn’t that terribly impressed with Jake Rogers either.

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    • FirstCoastFan

      4 years ago

      Maybe you should have been .Rogers had 6hr 17rbi in a little over 100ABs and threw out 57%.The 3.97era with him catching was also best on the team.And to add to those #s are the various metrics that rated him very high as well.

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      • tigerdoc616

        4 years ago

        Rogers is, by far the best defensive catcher and game caller the Tigers have. And this year he finally hit enough to warrant significant playing time. Actually one of the better defensive catchers in baseball. He is also a team leader and well liked in the clubhouse. But unfortunately, most fans only see the offense and nothing else.

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        • GarryHarris

          4 years ago

          I don’t care what a catcher does on offense. But I do see the passed balls and wild pitches that pass.

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    • thekayz

      4 years ago

      Then you never saw the stache….

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  6. AHH-Rox

    4 years ago

    Braves should have picked him up since he rhymes with the catcher they already have.

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  7. KermitJagger

    4 years ago

    This just sounds like Justin Morneau using a bad fake name.

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  8. tigerdoc616

    4 years ago

    This is actually a good pickup for the Tigers. Rogers was eyeing a late season return. The move to the 60 day DL means he can still come back with about 2-3 weeks left in the season, which was about where he was expected to come back. Greiner isn’t all that great and we only have 2 catchers on the 40 man. Haase is battling back spasms, so Garneau gives us another option. :He has 6 years of MLB experience and all we had to give up was some cash.

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