Iglesias activated from concussion DL

DETROIT -- The injury-riddled Tigers gained a valuable player back from the disabled list on Thursday. Shortstop José Iglesias passed Major League Baseball's concussion protocol and was activated from the seven-day concussion DL.
Lefty reliever Kyle Ryan was optioned to Triple-A Toledo to make room.
Iglesias went on the concussion DL after his head collided with Brad Miller's leg at second base on a double-play attempt against the Rays on April 19. Though Iglesias tweeted Wednesday that he had been cleared for game action, he actually had been cleared for baseball activity. The final hurdle came Thursday morning.
Iglesias' strength is his defense, but the American League Gold Glove Award finalist from last year also had gotten off to a decent start at the plate before the injury, batting .267 (12-for-45) with five doubles, a home run and five RBIs in 13 games.

Super utility player Andrew Romine was the primary fill-in for Iglesias for the past week. Iglesias' return shifts Romine's duties toward center field, where starter JaCoby Jones is on the 10-day DL with a left lip laceration sustained on a hit-by-pitch last Saturday at Minnesota.
Ryan made the Tigers' Opening Day bullpen on the strength of his 2016 work, but he struggled in limited action this year, with five runs on nine hits in 5 2/3 innings. He has walked seven hitters, with one intentional pass, against one strikeout. He yielded back-to-back walks, a bloop single behind first base and a Robinson Canó sacrifice fly in his last outing Tuesday against the Mariners.
The Tigers had been working with an extra reliever since Iglesias went on the DL last week, so the move returns them to a seven-man bullpen. They're back to two lefties, as they have been for most of the season, but Blaine Hardy essentially replaces Ryan as the second lefty behind setup man Justin Wilson.