After a long and tumultuous offseason, MLB Opening Day is finally close. Tigers enthusiasts far and wide have already put in their personal request for this Friday — myself included — and for the first time since at least 2017, a noteworthy portion of the Bless You Boys staff and community have legitimate belief in
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The Detroit Tigers added a shiny new toy to the middle of their lineup this week, acquiring Austin Meadows from the Tampa Bay Rays. The one-time All-Star (2019) is best known for his big bat, something he flashed early in his career as a former top prospect in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. He was traded
After Tuesday’s victory over the New York Yankees, the Detroit Tigers were scheduled to meet up with the Baltimore Orioles for the Grapefruit League finale on Wednesday. Instead, the two clubs decided to just call the whole thing off. The reason? A lack of available pitchers. That lack of available pitchers could plague the Tigers
Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers is on the precipice of joining a club with merely a solitary member to this point…The Hammer himself, the late great Henry Aaron. Hopefully early this season, Cabrera will eventually join Aaron as the only two baseball players in MLB history to bat .300+ and accrue 3000+ hits, 500+ Homers,…
The Detroit Tigers officially marked themselves as a serious professional baseball club on Monday night. An evening trade popped up on Twitter as North Carolina and Kansas duked it out for the national title. It was the Tigers with a thunderclap move, acquiring Austin Meadows from the Tampa Bay Rays.
While most of the minor leagues don’t open until Friday, April 8, the same as the major leagues, the Triple-A level will begin play on Tuesday. Listed rosters aren’t totally finalized yet, other than the Triple-A edition, and even that will likely change quickly once all levels start play on Friday. So expect to see
Detroit Tigers fans have had a bit of a rollercoaster week. First came the news that star prospect Riley Greene had a fractured foot. Then the team officially announced Spencer Torkelson made the club and would start at first base on Opening Day.
Well there was a fair bit of speculation over the weekend as to whether the Tigers would make a move to shore up the outfield with Riley Greene down for as much as two months or more. There didn’t appear to be much available in the center field department, but the Tigers found another path
If you put Tucker Barnhart and Eric Haase side-by-side, they look pretty similar. Both a bit under six feet tall and near 200 pounds. Strong beard game. Bona fide Midwesterners. The main way to tell them apart is their eye color: Barnhart’s are a steely light bluish-grey, while Haase’s are dark brown. Of course Barnhart
Welcome to week 4 of the Sunday “MCB Notes” a recap of all things Detroit Tigers & MLB and anything else that catches our eye. This week’s recap includes how the Tigers are going to address the loss of Riley Greene, Spencer Torkelson makes the team, Derek Hill & Andrew Chafin and how a Tigers trade…
Hopes for a playoff push from the 2022 Detroit Tigers are going to require significant improvement from the pitching staff to sustain them. Part of that improvement should come from the addition of Eduardo Rodriguez to the starting rotation. But if the Tigers are really going to be a threat this season, improvement from their
Tigers first baseman Spencer Torkelson gets in position vs. the Pittsburgh Pirates at LECOM Park Saturday, March 19, 2022 in Bradenton, Florida. Tigersphil 3 Replacement options for Detroit Tigers outfielder Riley Greene by Chris Brown
We spend a lot of time in the offseason talking about composing the best possible roster. When spring camp arrives, debates over which players will win which roles is a prominent topic. And then, as they seem to every year, most of the roster decisions end up getting made by circumstance, as injuries shape the
Detroit Tigers fans will have to wait a bit longer than they hoped to see their prized young outfielder Riley Greene. Greene limped into the dugout during Friday’s spring training game against the New York Yankees, and on Saturday morning Detroit News writer Chris McCosky confirmed the bad news:
Riley Greene, the Detroit Tigers’ star outfield prospect, has been diagnosed with a fractured foot according to manager AJ Hinch. Greene fouled a ball off his foot in the third inning of Friday’s exhibition against New York Yankees starter Gerritt Cole in a game at Lakeland, after which he hit a triple and remained on
As the Opening Day active roster starts to take shape, the Detroit Tigers have two players with similar skillsets who could be fighting against each other for one of the final spots. They also have similar names. That’s right, folks, we got a real heavyweight matchup in Castro vs. Castro going on this spring training.
Well it was a long, cold winter, particularly for fans of Major League Baseball. We’re really glad to be back. On top of everything else going on in the world, baseball fans watched their sport bury itself under a mountain of bad public relations and acrimony for three months before the new CBA was finally
Manager AJ Hinch insisted when he took the manager position for the Detroit Tigers that if the organization was going to be competitive, they had to get the pitching right. The previous season was disastrous for the group, including for top prospect Casey Mize, who made seven starts and supplied a 6.99 ERA.
Detroit Tigers centerfielder Riley Greene catches a line drive in the first inning of the game against the Philadelphia Phillies during spring training at BayCare Ballpark. Jonathan Dyer-USA TODAY Sports
Just being able to write about the Detroit Tigers and any sort of realistic shot at making the playoffs is so refreshing, when such thoughts have been non existent for the past five years, basically since former owner Mike Ilitch passed away. But here we are, with the much heralded prospects arriving in the major