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Collins to stay when Martinez returns?
- Updated: July 30, 2016
DETROIT — Tyler Collins has begun to straighten things out at the plate since being recalled from Triple-A Toledo earlier in July. Collins hit a three-run home run and a triple on Friday at Comerica Park for his first multi-hit game of the season.
He collected hits in seven of his first 10 games since his return, which is a small sample size, but his performance has at least raised the question of whether there is any chance he can hold onto his roster spot when right fielder J.D. Martinez returns from his rehab assignment at Toledo, which Ausmus said Saturday could be by the end of the current nine-game homestand.
“The better [Collins] plays, the more we have to think about keeping him,” Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said after Friday’s win over the Astros
In all likelihood, though, there will not be room for Collins and Martinez on the roster. Martinez is trying to make a comeback from a non-displaced elbow fracture suffered in late June.
Ausmus said Saturday that it will be difficult …
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