For the past few weeks we’ve been projecting the rosters for each of the Detroit Tigers’ four full-season minor-league affiliates. Rogelio has been handling the pitching, while I’ve been projecting the lineups. Today we turn our attention the Erie SeaWolves, Detroit’s Double-A affiliate.
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West Michigan Whitecaps fans were excited when the Detroit Tigers announced they would be the new High-A affiliate of the Tigers. This gave the opportunity to see the high end of Detroit’s prospect talent before anyone else would across the system.
As most of you already know, Chris Ilitch was one of the four owners who voted against the MLB’s proposal last week that included a competitive balance tax (CBT) threshold of 220 million dollars. The proposal was never going to be accepted by the players due to the threshold being too low, but Ilitch felt…
The Detroit Tigers rather long history of failure in developing hitters, as well as their lack of success with international free agents, has been discussed often here at Bless You Boys over the last half decade or more. One must look all the way back to 2014, when Eugenio Suarez provided a solid rookie campaign
The Major League Baseball Players’ Association (MLBPA) made some new proposals to owners as the two sides met in New York on Sunday, in an effort to break the stalemate in negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA). Among the new proposals that the players made are: Allowing MLB to make three specific rule
Over the last few years, the Detroit Tigers have had a strong penchant for SEC right-handers in the draft. Of course, the SEC produces an awful lot of good pitchers, so they’re not hardly alone in this. Two of the Tigers’ last five first round picks have fit the description. In 2017 they selected Alex
I love baseball. Since I was a little kid, I have always loved baseball. I loved playing baseball since Little League, if not sooner. I loved going to the games, the sight of the green, green grass, the crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd, and the smell of hot dogs. I love
In the spirit of Benjamin Hill, who does a Minor League Ballpark Guide, I decided to do something similar solely based on the Detroit Tigers farm system. Last season, I hit the road with a few of the staff members here at Motor City Bengals and was able to hit all four minor league stops.…
Per the report in the Athletic late last night by Evan Drellich, ($) four Major League Baseball owners, Bob Castellini of the Reds, Ken Kendrick of the Diamondbacks, Arte Moreno of the Angels and Chris Ilitch of the Detroit Tigers, were opposed to raising the competitive balance tax.
The primary cause of the stalemate between major league baseball players and owners is MLB’s failure to agree to a reasonable increase in the Competitive Balance Tax (CBT) threshold. The owners “final and best” offer included a paltry hike of less than five percent, from $210 to $220 million in 2022, followed by no increase
For the past few weeks we’ve been projecting the rosters for each of the Detroit Tigers’ four full-season minor-league affiliates. Rogelio has been handling the pitching, while I’ve been projecting the lineups. Today we turn our attention the West Michigan Whitecaps, Detroit’s High-A affiliate.
One of the great debates among the fanbase was whether the Detroit Tigers would opt to start their young position player prospects on the MLB roster or if the organization would continue to slow play their development by assigning them to Triple-A Toledo, a destination in which both already have experience.
Marathon negotiations on Monday gave Detroit Tigers fans some hope of a potential resolution, but reports of optimism turned out to be manufactured by the owners as a way to make players look bad when things inevitably went south on Tuesday.
The worst nightmare of all Detroit Tigers baseball fans and all fans alike has now become a reality, as it has been announced that Opening Day has been delayed until further notice due to the inability of the MLB and MLBPA to reach a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement.
After major league baseball players and owners bargained late into the night on the date of MLB’s self imposed deadline, February 28, reports to the media from the owners suggested that a deal might be close. Sounds coming from the players’ quarters were not so optimistic, as the two sides remained far apart on a
The wait to see the Detroit Tigers continues on as MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announced this afternoon that the first two series have been canceled. The press conference began at 5pm and right off the bat, the presser had a strange vibe to it.
Everybody thought the Detroit Tigers got their shortstop when they came to an eleventh-hour agreement with free-agent Javier Baez. Heck, the Detroit Tigers themselves likely thought the same thing. Recent reports indicate that the Detroit Tigers are still a suitor for perhaps the top player left on the market: Carlos Correa. Correa was the favorite…
Monday’s bargaining meetings between Major League Baseball and the players’ union in Jupiter, Florida, started at noon and lasted deep into the early morning hours. The league has insisted that February 28th was the date that a deal would have to be done to avoid losing regular season games for weeks now, but showed zero
For the first time since 2017, the Detroit Tigers are picking outside of the top ten in the MLB Draft. We first took a stab at projecting the top of this class way back in July, shortly after the 2021 draft concluded, and last week we checked in on how the college class was looking…
Detroit Tigers pitching prospect Keider Montero throws during spring training minor league minicamp on Monday, Feb. 21, 2022, at Tiger Town in Lakeland, Florida. Tigers5 Detroit Tigers: Projecting the Lakeland Flying Tigers bullpen by Roger Castillo