Tigers placed INF Javier Baez on the 10-day injured list with an undisclosed injury.
No word yet on what the injury is — or if it’s some phantom scenario just to get Baez away from the team for a while after allowing him to play in his return to Wrigley Field to start the week. The 31-year-old shortstop still has three years and $73 million remaining on his salary, but the Tigers have yet to accept that amount as a sunk cost and move on from what had been a brutal free agent signing. In his three seasons with the club, Báez flailed the bat wildly to an absolutely abysmal .221/.263/.347 slash line with 32 homers, 163 RBI and 29 stolen bases in 360 games. Ryan Kriedler was recalled from Triple-A in a corresponding move on Friday.