The 2021 minor league season held plenty of surprises, and the Detroit Tigers had their share. Returning to action after the cancellation of minor league ball in 2020, players had been largely out of sight for 18 months, and much changed in the prospect landscape behind the scenes. The Tigers can look no further than
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Welcome to our top 30 prospect rankings for the Detroit Tigers’ farm system in 2022. While the players are still locked out by MLB owners, and there is little on that front to report, the show must go on anyway. The time is right to talk prospects while we wait for word of a breakthrough
Last month we released our top 20 Detroit Tigers prospects for 2022. The list ended up being more than 5,000 words in all, so we split it into two articles. But one thing we never did was give a basic overview of the system as a whole. In short…it’s okay.
The first week of 2022 is upon us. A time for new beginnings, diet routines, and endless optimism for personal growth with resolutions to hold ourselves accountable for. Hopefully, in day five, you are sticking to your resolution. It’s the perfect time to do so. For sports fans around Metro Detroit, the college football season…
The Rule 5 Draft can be summarized as, “Teams try to find a diamond in the rough.” If you’re unfamiliar with the process, it goes like this: if you’ve been playing in the minor leagues for four years (or five, depending on your age when you were drafted), and you aren’t on your parent club’s
The Detroit Tigers have gone through a lot of changes over the past year, and nearly all of them have been for the better. From the major league club’s renewal under new manager A.J. Hinch, to the influx of blue chip prospect talent from the farm system, suddenly a lot of things are going right
Former Detroit Tigers first-round pick Cameron Maybin has called it a career after 15 major league seasons. Maybin made the announcement on Twitter. The tenth overall selection in the 2005 MLB draft out of high school, the now 34-year-old Maybin played for ten different teams, including a few go-arounds in the Motor City.
The Detroit Tigers made it clear this past season that upgrades to positions of need would come this offseason, and they wasted no time in doing just that when they acquired Tucker Barnhart from the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for minor league infielder Nick Quintana only a day after the World Series had ended.
Do you have some things you need to change in your life come January 1st? We should all eat better, work out more, spend more time offline with friends and loved ones, and read more books, presumably. But what about our fair baseball club’s players? What sorts of resolutions should the Detroit Tigers themselves make,
Detroit Stars outfielder “Turkey” Stearnes was inducted into Baseball’s Hall of Fame in 2001 (Photo Credit: Detroit Free Press) Near the end of 2020, Major League Baseball announced that it would now officially recognize seven professional Negro Leagues that operated between 1920-1948 as major leagues. Historians have long considered baseball played in these leagues as
The 2021 Detroit Tigers will not be remembered as a team that clapped an enormous amount of home runs by current standards— they finished 24th in the MLB with 179 bombs — but they had many that are worth revisiting. It’s also interesting to note that back in 2012, at the peak of their four-year
Yesterday we published the first half of our Detroit Tigers Top 20 prospects list, and today we finish with prospects 10 through 1. If you missed the first list and/or don’t feel like going back to read it, here’s how the process works: Six MCB contributors created independent lists of their top 25 Detroit Tigers…
The Detroit Tigers have seen their farm system change pretty dramatically since March, when we published last year’s list. And there have even been some significant changes since we published our updated list in August.
It has now been more than five months since the Detroit Tigers took Oklahoma high-school pitcher Jackson Jobe with the third overall pick in the 2021 MLB Draft. Jobe didn’t throw a professional pitch after signing, and he didn’t attend the Instructional League this fall.
I always begin any Hall of Fame discussion with a reminder that long-time Tigers second basemen Lou Whitaker has the highest career Wins Above Replacement among 20th Century position players not in the Hall and not connected to steroids or gambling. Whitaker will likely get another shot in the future, but was not on any of
Here at Bless You Boys, we strive to provide you with insightful, well-written, and informative coverage and analysis of the Detroit Tigers baseball team. I can assure you, I put my best effort into my sentences to make sure this is well-written. As for the other stuff, look, we’re going on a month of a
With major league baseball still on lockdown through the holidays, there still isn’t much to report from around the league. Negotiators from league owners and the players association met briefly last week, but mainly to hash out some technical details as opposed to core economic issues. And so, we wait. Unfortunately, the most notable news
It’s difficult to believe that Comerica Park, home of the Detroit Tigers, is 21 years old. Perhaps even more difficult to fathom is that it is now tied as the 14th oldest ballpark in the league with Houston’s Minute Maid Park and San Fransisco’s Oracle Park. This new age of stadium assembly via taxpayer dollars…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! That being said with baseball in a dormant state, I wanted to give you my holiday wish list for the Detroit Tigers heading into 2022. We’ve already seen the team make some major moves like bringing in Javier Baez and Eduardo Rodriguez. In the spirit of the…
May 18, 2021; Seattle, Washington, USA; Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Spencer Turnbull (56) celebrates with catcher Eric Haase (13) after throwing a no-hitter against the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park. Mandatory Credit: Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports