When looking at the Detroit Tigers 40-man roster last night in doing a write up on Matt Strahm, it never occurred to me to look back at the 2017 Houston Astros roster. Manager A.J. Hinch used just one left-hander in Tony Sipp out of the bullpen that season.
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The second round of the MLB amateur draft had been a bit of a black hole for the Detroit Tigers until they selected Dillon Dingler with the first pick of the second round in 2020. Looking to go back-to-back, the club selected prep shortstop Izaac Pacheco with the third pick of the second round in
When the MLB lockout started back in December, we pumped the brakes on individual free agent pieces for the Detroit Tigers to consider. However, with the negotiations starting up again on Monday, we looked at a few arms that could help either the starting rotation or the bullpen.
As the Detroit Tigers mini-camp resumes tomorrow, as far as arms that are in camp that might shape the 2022 Erie SeaWolves rotation, we have to look back at their 2021 season for a moment. The SeaWolves finished 64-55 under manager Arnie Beyeler as their offense was one of the more potent ones in the…
In the 2021 amateur draft, the Detroit Tigers made a decided push to bolster their pitching pipeline. Five of their first six selections were starting pitchers, power arms all, with Jackson Jobe and Ty Madden leading the way. The system had gotten a little thin in pitching with the graduation of Casey Mize, Tarik Skubal,
The great frustration of the Detroit Tigers’ farm system over the last decade, has been a dire lack of good hitters. Top prospects Riley Greene and Spencer Torkelson have finally changed the equation, but a system that can’t produce major league contributors without top draft picks is going to have a hard time sustaining a
One of the most enjoyable aspects in going to the minor league games last season between all four Detroit Tigers affiliates was watching prospects quickly make a name for themselves, especially players in the lower rounds of the draft like Garrett Hill and Beau Brieske, just to name a few.
The lockout continues to eat into Major League Baseball’s 2022 timeline as news came out that spring training games would be canceled until March 5. The labor discussions between the MLBPA and the owners will resume on Monday with the goal of hopefully starting the season on time. For Detroit Tigers fans and baseball fans…
After weeks of posturing and no real progress, the start of spring training was finally officially delayed on Friday. Fans trying to plan their attendance had been left in limbo about the start of Grapefruit and Cactus League games for the past few weeks, and clarity was needed. Major League Baseball has postponed spring training
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 things haven’t changed too dramatically since then. We have some performances from…
During our Detroit Tigers radio podcast a few weeks back, myself and Chris Brown talked to the voice of the West Michigan Whitecaps Dan Hasty and we received questions about what the rotation would look like for the Whitecaps in 2022. It got me thinking about projecting the what the pitching staffs would look like…
The odds of a delayed 2022 MLB season are growing stronger, but images of Detroit Tigers minor leaguers in action have begun leaking out of spring training camp. MLive’s Evan Woodbery tweeted out the roster for Detroit’s minor-league mini-camp on Wednesday morning (it’s fairly close to our depth chart projections), and various beat writers began…
Well it’s not the spring camp we were hoping for as of yet, but the Detroit Tigers’ minor leaguers took the field today for their first practice together for the 2022 season. As MLB and the players’ union concluded another short meeting featuring another proposal from the union, the major leaguers of tomorrow were getting
The Detroit Tigers had a widely-applauded draft in 2020; a year in which the selection process was limited to just five rounds and the Detroit Tigers were limited to just six picks. The Tigers would kick off day one with consensus top player Spencer Torkelson, but they also led off day two with the second…
With minor league players reporting to a spring minicamp on Wednesday, and spring training looking increasingly like it will be composed of non-40-man roster players, composing a preview for the Tigers is a bit tricky. We should be turning from the Super Bowl to the arrival of pitchers and catchers. Instead the big storylines are
For the past month we’ve been offering detailed looks at all the Detroit Tigers prospects we ranked in our top 20 list. Most recently we wrote about infielder Ryan Kreidler and pitchers Joey Wentz and Ty Madden, but now we focus on the the highest ranked pitching prospect in the system, Jackson Jobe.
If there is anything we have learned about the Detroit Tigers fanbase across the rebuild, it’s that the fans are unbelievably loyal to their team. They watched their club limp to last-place finishes and 95+ loss seasons from 2017-2019 and likely would have had another in 2020 had it not been for a pandemic-shortened year.
With the minor league mini camp starting on Wednesday, we are getting close to wrapping up the best prospects in the Detroit Tigers system. Number six was Ryan Kreidler, the third member of an impressive power trio of himself, Spencer Torkelson and Riley Greene. Coming in at number 5, just like our friends over at…
At Motor City Bengals, we’re counting down our best prospects in the Detroit Tigers system. Our seventh-ranked prospect was Joey Wentz, which you can find here. That brings us to one of the more polarizing players in the entire system: Ryan Kreidler.
Representatives for the Major League Baseball Players’ Association gathered with MLB executives on Saturday to hear the owners’ latest proposal for a collective bargaining agreement (CBA). Contrary to Commissioner Rob Manfred’s claims in his Thursday press conference, the proposals were not substantially different from their last offer, moving the two sides no closer to an