The Tigers announced Tuesday that catcher Tomas Nido has been designated for assignment. His spot on the roster will go to fellow catcher Jake Rogers, who is being reinstated from the injured list after missing about six weeks with an oblique strain.
Nido’s DFA shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. Though he’s hitting .343 with Detroit, that’s a 12-for-37 sample that’s consisted entirely of singles and has come without a walk. Nido’s offense has been buoyed by a .480 average on balls in play. He’s fanned 10 times in 37 plate appearances (27%) and chased pitches off the plate at a grim 41% clip. He’s a well-regarded defender, but Nido entered the season as a career .210/.245/.309 hitter in 945 major league plate appearances. He was hitting .160/.222/.320 in 28 Triple-A plate appearances at the time he was originally summoned to the majors in place of the injured Rogers.
Detroit will happily take the month-plus of solid backup work for Nido and would surely love to pass him through waivers in order to retain him as a depth option in Triple-A Toledo. It’s hardly out of the question that he gets claimed, but there’s a good chance he’ll pass through waivers unclaimed as he did in June 2023 after the Mets had designated him for assignment. If Nido does clear waivers, he’d have the right to reject a minor league assignment (by virtue of both service time and that 2023 outright) in lieu of electing free agency.
He did about a good of a job an emergency third catcher can do. He’ll be in the majors somewhere soon
Agree. Absolutely no complaints about his contribution.
Hopefully Dingler continues to start most of the time. He took the job and ran with it. A big reason the Tigers have the top record in mlb Jake Rogers does not provide much at the plate.
0.0 bWAR even with the inflated hitting numbers.
He had 35 AB’s. Weird comment
Anyone worried about the WAR for a backup catcher with 35 ABs is missing the ACTUAL value of what Nido contributed the last month
Not to mention saving the bullpen a bit with nearly 2 shutout innings on the mound last nite
I agree. His hitting was “value added” & a cherry on top. He handled the catcher position & kept us afloat while DD got a few days of rest & while JR was rehabbing.
He pitched so well last night hard to believe this …
Well, after him saving the staff last night, they knew he wouldn’t be available out of the bullpen for a few days, so he was the logical cut.
Is he the same catcher that I heard pitched one and a third scoreless innings yesterday in a blowout loss?
in the pouring rain.
Nothing says, “thank you for getting us out of a bullpen jam and your willingness to help the team in anyway possible” like a DFA.
Would like Nido back in Mets system on a MiLB deal.
Send him to the Mets lav.
In Mets land the talk is all Juan Soto being Juan SloMo.
He wants to return to the Yankees very glum as a Met.
nypost.com/2025/05/19/sports/juan-soto-is-very-ver…
“In Mets land..very glum as a Met”..This is a huge part of the package you get, when you sign a high profile Scott Boras client. Player performance, durability and effort level drops almost immediately upon signing on the dotted line.
Then shortly thereafter we begin to hear about all those nagging, debilitating injuries that have followed him for years and he only now feels comfortable talking about it.
It’s actually a fairly predictable pattern with about half of the high profile Scott Boras guys. I won’t bother to name names because everyone already knows who I’m talking about.
Soto will start to hear the boo birds soon if he doesn’t produce or show interest. His lack of hitting and hustle won’t play in Queens.
If the ny post says it, then it must be true. I also heard Bat Boy wanted to play for the Yankees after he single-handedly took out Saddam Hussein from the ny post.
Also from Mets MLB beat writer
mlb.com/news/carlos-mendoza-to-speak-to-juan-soto-…
Unfortunately, as his nickname indicates, Bat Boy was all stick, no glove. He coulda been a NYY legend.
For the amount he’s being paid, it won’t play anywhere.
You are right and I ask Will it Play in Peoria?
I get listing his stats, but they were presented is as if he’s getting DFA’d for his underlying numbers and track record. Not really. Just a third string catcher that was only ever needed as long as Rogers was out. Happy to have him for this past month, really solid teammate.
^this guy gets it
Backup catchers have never been judged on what they do with the bat. Its all about handling a pitching staff and young pitchers on an emergency call up basis. The fact he contributed at all with the bat is just a bonus.
Nodo on Nido
Tomas Nido did a great job. Many teams will take a look. I dont know what kind of contract the Tigers have with him. My guess is a minor league deal that he can get from anybody. The question is who needs a BU catcher on their 40 man NOW.
You know WAR is trash when he hits .343 as a catcher and gets a 0.0 WAR. after 35 AB.
There’s no way he goes unclaimed. That sort of thing is going to happen often, as the level of talent in the organization will continue to require the Tigers to place serviceable players on the waiver wire.
So Toledo by next week?
I doubt it. There’s more than one GM licking their chops waiting for their claim to go through.
Nido’s market might have shrinked after the Dodgers released Barnes. As a Tigers fan, I could live with that, since Nido made a good contribution while being called up and would represent solid depth at AAA.
Gruß,
BSHH
The Dodgers are going with an untried rookie over Barnes so, that leads me to think Nido’s value is higher.