keep on sluggin’

Hattiesburg native John Lindsey will play on in 2013, having re-signed as a minor league free agent with the Detroit Tigers. Lindsey, who’ll turn 36 in January, hit .270 with 15 home runs and 47 RBIs in 65 games for the Tigers’ Triple-A Toledo club in 2012. He began 2012 playing in Mexico, hitting 21 bombs for Laguna. Lindsey has been slugging away in pro ball since 1995 and has logged only 12 at-bats (one hit) in the majors, all with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2010. He has 249 career minor league homers. P.S. Delta State product Eli Whiteside, who signed a split contract with the New York Yankees, has been designated for assignment (taken off the big league roster). … Former Mississippi Braves shortstop Brandon Hicks, DFA’d by Oakland last week, was traded to the New York Mets. … Ex-M-Brave Brent Lillibridge, who finished last season with Cleveland, has elected free agency.