Tigers sign righty Wily Peralta to minors deal

The Tigers have signed right-hander Wily Peralta to a minor league contract with an invitation to big league camp, according to Jon Heyman of MLB Network. The deal comes with a $1.5M base salary and up to $300K in incentives.

This is the first we’ve heard about Peralta in quite some time, as he didn’t surface in any rumors after the Royals released him in July 2019. He has not been part of any major league organization since then, but he’ll now get a chance to compete for a spot in the Tigers’ bullpen, per Jason Beck of MLB.com.

Peralta, who will turn 32 in May, has spent the majority of his career as a starter between Milwaukee and Kansas City, but all of his outings as a Royal came as a reliever. From 2012-19, Peralta amassed 120 starts and 779 1/3 innings across 211 appearances and pitched to a 4.52 ERA/4.39 SIERA with underwhelming strikeout and walk percentages (16.9 and 8.8), but he did put up an impressive 50.7 percent groundball rate.