One of Akron’s native sons in the baseball world is coming back to Ohio.
The Indians on Tuesday signed free-agent outfielder David Lough to a minor-league deal and assigned him to Triple-A Columbus. Lough is from the Akron area and attended Green High School.
Lough, 31, has a totaled a career .254 average across five seasons in the major leagues, having spent time with Kansas City, Baltimore and Philadelphia. Lough appeared in 24 games this season at Triple-A in Detroit’s minor-league system before being released on May 17.
Lough provides some additional outfield depth following the rash of injuries in Cleveland, including Austin Jackson (toe), Brandon Guyer (wrist) and Abraham Almonte (bicep), that led to the promotion of top prospect Bradley Zimmer.