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Jace Jung entered the Tigers’ organization as a first round pick, but has largely been overshadowed throughout his time as a professional. That’s not necessarily his fault, as it’s tough to stand out as the pick sandwiched between Jackson Jobe and Max Clark. As an advanced college hitter, Jung was the first of the trio

The 2025 international signing period opened on Wednesday, and the Tigers quickly locked up their top target. Dominican outfielder Cris Rodriguez agreed to a signing bonus of $3.2 million. He is the highest ranked international free agent prospect in Tigers’ history. Rodriguez is a 6-foot-4, 200 pound outfielder and while he already has some of

A major top 100 preseason prospect list came out on Tuesday as Baseball Prospectus’ top 101 prospects for 2025 was released. We tend to place Baseball America, Baseball Prospectus, and FanGraphs above the rest of the national prospect rankings, although there are a few other good ones as well, including MLB Pipeline. Baseball Prospectus has

Happy Monday BYB readers and welcome to the Week That Was. This past week things were a bit slower in the hot stove, as teams focused on cleaning up their outstanding arbitration issues (and one team was dealing with in-fighting and ownership lawsuits… more on that below). We did see a new chapter in the

The Tigers probably didn’t expect Bryce Rainer to fall to them on the first day of the 2024 MLB Draft. Most of the draft-related media thought he’d be off the board before the eleventh pick, where he fell into Detroit’s lap. When the opportunity presented itself to bring the talented prep shortstop into the fold,

The Detroit Tigers signed Josue Briceño as part of the final group of international prospects under Al Avila’s leadership, and the young catcher has blossomed into an excellent parting gift from the erstwhile general manager. He was on our radar at this time a year ago, but the growth he showed during the 2024 season

Let’s face it, if we’re all still Tigers fans after the way the past nine years have gone (and many of our frequent readers and commenters will remember 2003 all too well), then we will be Tigers fans forever. When you suffer enough, complain enough, but still show up year after year, you’re definitely a

Thursday was the final day for major league teams to come to agreement with the arbitration eligible players. The Tigers announced terms with most of those players as of this writing, presumably with more to follow as word leaks out. The biggest of these was an agreement on a $10.15 million contract for 2025 for

Since taking over from Al Avila in the fall of 2022, Scott Harris and his staff have done a lot right in building up the Detroit Tigers’ farm system. In the early going, their two draft classes are off to a strong start and they’ve made several strong trades to prime the organization for long-term

When the Tigers drafted Max Clark with the third overall pick in 2023, the decision sent Tigers fans into turmoil. He wasn’t the player most fans had settled on as their preference in that draft class and Clark wasn’t exactly welcomed with open arms into the organization. A full season later, the specter of what

The Detroit Tigers’ first draft under president Scott Harris is quickly looking like a gem. After landing Max Clark with the third overall pick in 2023, they targeted prep shortstop Kevin McGonigle with their competitive balance A pick, which was 37th overall. There was plenty of debate between Clark and outfielder Wyatt Langford at the

Welcome to the first week of a brand new year. We are now only a little over a month away from pitchers and catchers reporting to Spring Training, so the hot stove is bound to get hotter over the coming weeks. Things didn’t come to a standstill over the holiday season as you’ll see below,

We’ve talked a lot about acquisitions the Detroit Tigers should make over the past few months, but it’s pretty nice to have arguably the game’s top pitching prospect in your back pocket already. Jackson Jobe still has a long way to go to reach his full potential, but as he showed all season long, the

The holidays are over and winter has the glorious Great Lakes region in its grip once again. Baby it’s cold and dark outside in the north country. However, spring training and what looks like a potentially exciting sequel to the Tigers miraculous 2024 postseason run begins in only seven weeks. By mid February we’ll have

Baseball right now is chock full of dynamic, exciting players who are just a ton of fun to watch. These players can be the best in baseball—who among us didn’t enjoy watching Shohei Ohtani surpass the 50/50 mark and spotlight his adorable dog at games—but there are players on every team that are just as

The Detroit Tigers made a nice small scale move on Friday, inking Gleyber Torres to a one-year, $15 million contract for the 2025 season. While Torres is set to play second base on a full-time basis, the move appears more motivated by the situation at first base. Spencer Torkelson is on the outs unless something

The second film in this baseball film review series is a biopic of legendary baseball star (and great human) Lou Gehrig. It follows his life and playing career, debuting only a year and a half after his untimely death from the disease that now bears his name. The film features many real baseball players and

The Detroit Tigers finally made a move on Friday morning. As Jon Heyman of the New York Post first reported, the Tigers are set to sign infielder Gleyber Torres to a one-year deal worth $15 million. Jesse Rogers of ESPN had the contract details. The move makes sense for the Tigers lineup, though the fit

Well friends, we survived Christmas, and now we’re here, the final Friday Open Thread of 2024. It seems wild to realize that we’ve come to the end of another year, and somehow the most future-sounding year imaginable is ahead: 2025. With time to reflect on the year that’s behind us, we want to know what

While the big name free agents and trades draw the headlines, a lowkey piece of the offseason that sometimes produces major impacts on the next season is how teams go about building up their depth. Consistently good teams, regardless of payroll level, find useful players every season to bring to camp and stash at the