Bless You Boys

Over the last few weeks, a little undercurrent of chatter involving right-hander Jack Flaherty and the Detroit Tigers began to percolate. Now it has come to fruition as Jeff Passan reports that the Tigers and Flaherty have agreed on a one-year deal at $25 million with a player option for $10 million available to him

Friday marked the one-year anniversary of Colt Keith’s long-term contract with the Detroit Tigers. The six-year deal, complete with contract escalators and three option years that could take the deal to nine years and as high as $82,000,000, while guaranteeing $28,642,500, was pretty well received, and promoted by the team as part of a new

Once upon a time, many years ago, in the sweltering heat of a Kansas City summer, I tossed a ball to Phil Coke, and he very obligingly signed a baseball for me. Now, being a fool, the only pen I had with me was ballpoint, and the signatures I collected from Coke (and Gene Lamont!)

Jackson Jobe stayed atop the prospect rankings in 2024, and Jaden Hamm was the breakout pitcher of the year in the system, but don’t forget about right-hander Troy Melton. After a major breakout season in 2023, Melton had a quieter year tackling the Double-A level, but there is still plenty to like in his game.

Per a report from John Heyman on Wednesday, and confirmed by Ken Rosenthal, the Detroit Tigers and former New York Yankees reliever Tommy Kahnle are nearing a free agent contract. The 35-year-old right-hander has had some issues with walks in recent years and is coming off a down year. He would make a good project

Since taking over the Detroit Tigers from Al Avila, Scott Harris has done an outstanding job building up the farm system. While he hasn’t done much to address the active roster, the acquisition of shortstop Trey Sweeney was one trade that bridged the gap between those two goals. He’s technically still a prospect per Baseball

The Detroit Tigers haven’t done a whole to improve the team this offseason. We’ve spent a lot of time talking about and waiting on an Alex Bregman signing announcement with one of his suitors. Maybe they’ll surprise us, but in the meantime, other opportunities to improve could slip away if they aren’t careful. Staring us

Welcome to the final week of January! Hard to believe we’re already here and that baseball will be back (in some capacity) next month! The past week has been a bustling one, with the biggest story of the week being the Hall of Fame announcements, and we’ll get into the three new Hall of Famers

Despite a flurry of different Houston Astros related rumors, the last weekend in January passed without any movement on the Alex Bregman front. Speculation that the Houston Astros were trading reliever Ryan Pressly turned out to be true, and the right-hander is now a Cub. However, this didn’t end up saving the Astros all that

Much was made of the Detroit Tigers’ starting pitching depth entering the 2024 season, but as is so often the case, they needed all of it and then some. In the process, one of their less heralded pitching prospects, left-hander Brant Hurter, stood out above the rest. Hurter was outstanding in a relief role. The

The Detroit Tigers have done pretty well in the pitching department the past few years, but beyond Jackson Jobe, their system is finally led by positional prospects. Jobe is set to join the party full-time in 2025, and the club got good work out of several other pitching prospects last year, but the well isn’t

Detroit Tigers’ ace Tarik Skubal has been the 2024 AL Cy Young award winner for months. On Saturday night in New York, he finally got to collect it. The Baseball Writers Association of America presented the award at the 100th Centennial New York Baseball Writers’ dinner. As you might expect, the southpaw looked less comfortable

Most of the month of January has now passed, and things have gone very quiet in regard to Alex Bregman’s free agent market. While the Detroit Tigers and a few other suitors like the Red Sox and the Cubs are reportedly still engaged, there has been no change to indicate that anyone is moving closer

The relationship didn’t last long enough to get attached, but Detroit Tigers fans had some good times with right-hander Jack Flaherty in 2024. Of course, it didn’t hurt that Flaherty had perhaps the best four month stretch of his career under the watchful eyes of Tigers’ pitching coach Chris Fetter and his staff. Still, Flaherty

Prospect list season continued on Wednesday as Baseball America weighed in with their top 100 ranking of the top young players in baseball. They aren’t quite as high on the Detroit Tigers’ farm system as Baseball Prospectus, leaving both Josue Briceño and Jace Jung off their list. However, the Tigers still grade out better than

The road from draft day to the major leagues is often long for catchers. Such was the case for Detroit Tigers backstop Dillon Dingler. A popular second round, 38th overall, selection back in the shortened 2020 draft, Dingler took years to slowly start to put things together offensively. Finally, after a major breakout with the

We’ve already covered Scott Harris’ best trade deadline acquisition with the Tigers with our fourth ranked prospect, catcher Thayron Liranzo. Infielder Hao-Yu Lee isn’t too far behind. After a strong second half in 2023 after coming over from the Phillies in the Michael Lorenzen trade with the Phillies, Lee backed it up with an excellent

Given the recent loss of baseball legend Bob Uecker, it’s only fitting that we look at his incredible performance as alcoholic announcer Harry Doyle in this classic baseball comedy. For those who have never seen the film, the hapless Cleveland Indians get a new owner when a conniving former showgirl inherits the franchise and then

Last week, I asked you to stretch your imaginations to the breaking point and pick any other MLB team you thought you might be able to be a fan of. I know, it was a mean question and not easy to answer. So this week we’re going to flip that question on its head. I

The start of Major League Baseball’s spring training season is right around the corner! With around five weeks remaining until the first exhibition pitch is thrown, it is time to take a look at the schedule that the Detroit Tigers will face in Florida now that the game times have been set. The Tigers will