Moving on their latest round of spring training roster ahead of opening day, the Tigers announced this morning that they chose the infielder Jace Jung and left-handed Sean Guenther. Neither player will rest with the club.
Jung, 24, is the club’s first-round pick in the 2022 draft, with a top 100 prospect. The youngster made his major league debut last year and scored a nice .241/.362/.304 (102 WRC+) on the Tigers’ 94 trips last year, despite the league’s average production swelled by Good Fortune. Last year, Jung walked with a great 16% cut in the Grand Slam, but a lot of 30.9% strikeout rate and minimal power (only five extra hits, all of which are doubles), leaving him relying on an unsustainable .380 Babip to make his slash average average average.
Even so, Jung entered the camp as a favorite to work on the opening day of Tigers third base. The club promotes Alex Bregman Among free agents this winter, they ended up appearing short, into camp, with only their internal choices available. This put Jung in a strong position and could win a nod, but Jung struggled hard during this spring training this year as he hit only 33 4 shots on the plate and made four walks on ten strikeouts. Sure, the numbers for spring training are only calculated a lot, but between his suspicious coffee cup last year and the Tigers’ reliance on left-handed bats in the lineup, the club clearly felt most willing to send Jung to Triple-A Toledo to start the season.
As Jung now stands out in the Opening Day lineup, the third base appears to be loaded by a row of people from the left-handed utility Zach McKinstry and the right bat Andy Ibanes. Ibanez has been expected to line up with Jung entering the camp, although McKinstry appears to be voted on the bench to start the spring. McKinsterry hit 325 trips last year on 325 trips, but hit .215/.277/.337 (75 WRC+) last year, but McKinsterry’s plate appeared 325 times in last year’s game against right-handed pitching. Meanwhile, Ibanez crushed his left hand to a tune of .292/.357/.445 diagonal line. McKinstery isn’t the only option to share time with Ibanes at third base, though not Ryan Kreidler,,,,, Javier Baezor non-member inviter Jahmai Jones Ensuring the expected offensive output of utility personnel is necessary to improve.
Jung left the roster, which opened up the position player combination for one of the other players who were competing for a spot in the camp. Cut Jones to make shortstop Trey Sweeney It’s likely to break the camp with the club, and the soon-to-be-25-year-old shortstop number can be combined with Baez. At least one roster seems to be possible Spencer Torkelson Or Justin-Henry Malloy Matt Vierling Located on the injured roster, the club’s final position on the bench lowered Criedler, Jones’s one, and anyone from Tocklesen and Malloy are yet to make the roster.
As for Guenther, the cuts are not surprising. Last year, Southpaw performed well in Tigers’ limited work, posting with 0.86 ERA and 2.60 FIP in 21 innings, but Taylor Holden and Brant Hurter Both entered the camp and ran the opening roster on Guenther, and the club signed veteran Southpaw Andrew Chaffin As a non-warehouse inviter during the camp, this likely extinguished Guenther’s hope of becoming the third South Claw in the bullpen.
