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Matt Gage Elects Free Agency

By Steve Adams | July 1, 2025 at 11:31am CDT

Tigers left-hander Matt Gage went unclaimed on waivers following his recent DFA, per Evan Woodbery of MLive.com. Rather than accept an assignment to Triple-A Toledo, Gage has opted to elect free agency, Jon Heyman of the New York Post adds, which is Gage’s right as a player who’s been outrighted previously in his career.

The 32-year-old Gage tossed 5 2/3 shutout innings with Detroit, though he did so while only fanning 12% of his opponents in that small sample. Still, he limited walks at an 8% clip and continued what’s generally been an effective run in limited MLB chances. Gage has now seen action in parts of three major league seasons and turned in a 1.42 ERA with a 22.5% strikeout rate, 10.8% walk rate and 45.3% ground-ball rate. He’s also done a nice job avoiding hard contact, yielding a tepid 86.8 mph average exit velocity and feeble 31.3% hard-hit rate across those three partial seasons.

Gage signed a minor league deal with the Tigers over the winter. They’re his third big league team in three seasons, having previously suited up for the Astros and Blue Jays. This year’s 91.9 mph average four-seamer is a career-low, but he’s posted quality numbers both in the big leagues and in Triple-A Toledo: 32 1/3 innings, 1.67 ERA, 22.8% strikeout rate, 3.3% walk rate.

Any team in need of some left-handed bullpen depth could take a look at Gage. The Mets have cycled through several left-handed relievers in recent weeks, and there are several clubs around the league operating with only one lefty in their relief corps at the moment — the Yankees, Nationals and Mariners among them.

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  1. waitsfornoone

    2 weeks ago

    Best of luck to Mr. Gage.

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  2. Dooper

    2 weeks ago

    Gage, gage against the dying of the light

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  3. Zippy the Pinhead

    2 weeks ago

    On behalf of the M’s, I say, “Welcome, Matt.”

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  4. warnbeeb

    2 weeks ago

    A team could do worse than Matt Gage.

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    • The Saber-toothed Superfife

      2 weeks ago

      12

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  5. 84LeFlore

    1 week ago

    Nice bounce back today by Hurter: 2.2 IP, 4 H. 1 R, 1 BB, 5 K.

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  6. alproof

    1 week ago

    He signed with the Giants. I don’t understand of all their relievers why they dumped him. I liked him with the Tigers.

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