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The Detroit Tigers made a trade on the first day of spring camp. After designating RHP Mason Englert in exchange for signing Jack Flaherty last week, they traded Englert to the Rays today for minor league lefty Drew Sommers. There are no real downsides to such a move. We might have preferred to keep Englert

Wednesday is a big day for Major League Baseball as pitchers and catchers officially report to their spring training camps ahead of the 2025 campaign. The Detroit Tigers’ battery pairs will descend upon Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Florida, to get started. The morning temperatures hovered in the low-70s while the high is expected to

Among the strengths of the Detroit Tigers as Spring Training 2025 opens in Lakeland on Wednesday is certainly their starting pitching. With Jack Flaherty back in the fold, the club enters camp with a really strong trio of reigning AL Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal, 25-year-old Reese Olson, and Flaherty coming off one of the

The 2024 season was one of the wildest in Detroit Tigers history. They were now famously left for dead on August 11 with a 0.2 percent chance at the postseason. Yet the team rallied from eight games under the .500 mark and stormed down the stretch to snatch a wild card berth. Suddenly they were

The Super Bowl is over and baseball season is almost here. On Wednesday, pitchers and catchers will report to Lakeland, and spring camp for the 2025 Detroit Tigers season will get underway. On Monday afternoon, the Tigers announced their Spring Training roster, including 18 non-roster invites. There will be plenty of interesting players to watch

Hey, it’s Monday, and pitchers and catchers are reporting THIS WEEK. (The Cubs actually reported yesterday!) That means we get to look forward to our first sightings of the team, and keeping an eye out for #bestshapeofhislife player makeovers. It’s an exciting time for baseball fans, as it finally means we can start to really

The Detroit Tigers farm system is in outstanding shape. That’s been well established this offseason, but it goes well beyond the top tiers of talent. The Tigers have a really excellent group of top positional prospects, the consensus best pitching prospect in baseball, and some strong up and coming pitchers like Jaden Hamm, Brant Hurter,

Now, here’s the thing. I knew the moment I came up with this thread idea that every single one of you would answer the same way: Tarik Skubal. Obviously. Yes. Scott Harris please rent a dump truck, fill it with money, and drive it to his house. But still, this is a young team stacked

The beginning of the spring training schedule is right around the corner, with the Detroit Tigers opening up their 2025 preseason against the Philadelphia Phillies in Lakeland on Friday, Feb. 22. Then the real deal starts on Thursday, March 27, when they travel west for the MLB opener against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Last season,

The Detroit Tigers farm system is getting a lot of praise these days. The bigger names are well known, but a less discussed strength of the system is the stockpile of raw but talented arms in the lower levels of the system. They drafted their fair share of prep arms in 2023 and then snagged

The Detroit Tigers agreed on a two-year contract with Jack Flaherty almost five days ago. The deal will pay the right-hander $25 million in 2025, with a player option for $10 million in 2026 that becomes a $20 million player option should Flaherty make 15 starts in 2025. The lack of a big multi-year offer

A week before spring training officially kickstarts with pitchers and catchers reporting on February 12th, FanDuel Sports Network Detroit has released the broadcast schedule. There’s the typical mixture of TV broadcasts, radio broadcasts, and games without any broadcast at all. In a bit of good news, 9 games will be on TV at FanDuel Sports

As new prospect rankings emerged this winter from the major national sites, they rapidly joined our consensus opinion that the Detroit Tigers have one of the best, if now the best farm system in the game. The Tigers have had six players consistently ranked in national top 100 lists, with a few more just outside

While the Detroit Tigers have finally started to see a bit of progress with international free agents, there still isn’t that much to write home about. Wenceel Pérez and Keider Montero made pretty good first impressions in 2024, and Josue Bricéno is one of the fastest rising power-hitting prospects in the game. Still, we may

The Detroit Tigers finalized their coaching staff for the minor league system on Monday. Most of the big changes were already announced early in the offseason, but they’ve certainly shaken things up with new assignments for their managers. The development system is retaining a lot of continuity though, as the Tigers have a pretty solid

The Detroit Tigers designated veteran right-hander Alex Faedo for assignment in the wake of the Tommy Kahnle signing last week. On Monday, they found a trade partner for him, sending the 29-year-old to Tampa Bay for catcher Enderson Delgado and cash considerations. The Tigers haven’t officially signed Jack Flaherty yet, but they’ll need to open

We’ve now passed through the final week of January (all 674563 days of it), and have arrived in February, the month that baseball returns! While the Tigers had their own exciting news late Sunday evening, there was a lot of other stuff that went down this past week. A former commissioner (who actually seemed to

The Detroit Tigers’ 2024 amateur draft may someday be known as the great arm talent draft, in contrast to Dave Dombrowski’s failed reliever draft over a decade ago. The Tigers drafted shortstop Bryce Rainer in the first round, then spent the next four picks on pitchers. They doubled back for a few position players with

On Sunday night, the Tigers came through with a pretty good free agent signing. They brought back RHP Jack Flaherty on a two-year deal that could be worth as much as $45 million if he has a healthy season in 2025 and opts into the second year of the deal. The cost does little to

The Tigers selected Madden out of the University of Texas back in 2021 with the 32nd overall pick in the competitive balance A round of the amateur draft. He was a fairly advanced college starter who threw 94-98 mph with a very pretty promising slider and decent versions of a cutter, changeup, and curveball. Right