Tigers add two to scouting ranks

DETROIT -- The Tigers added two former Red Sox front office officials to their international scouting department Wednesday, hiring Miguel Garcia and Tom Moore while promoting Ramon Pena to special assistant to the general manager.

Garcia will take over as the director of Venezuelan operations and Central American scouting. He spent the past four years as Boston's coordinator for Latin American scouting. Before that, he served five years under the Tigers' current front office group while they were with the Florida Marlins. As a scout and supervisor of operations in Venezuela, Garcia helped then-Marlins assistant GM Al Avila sign Miguel Cabrera, now the heart and soul of Florida's lineup.

Moore worked seven seasons in the Red Sox front office, the last three of them as the assistant director of professional and international scouting. He'll have the same title in Detroit.

Next season will be Pena's 22nd with the Tigers. He worked the last seven years under the title of assistant to baseball operations in charge of foreign affairs. As much, he was heavily involved in the club's international scouting efforts, signing eventual Major Leaguers such as Omar Infante, Fernando Rodney, Francisco Cordero, Juan Encarnacion, Bobby Higginson and Frank Catalanotto.