The 2021 Detroit Tigers minor league season gave us unfamiliar names that rose through the system. Last season, we saw Casey Mize, Tarik Skubal and Matt Manning move up from prospect status to rotation mainstays. So the question is, who is the next pitching prospect going to be and what type of pitching arsenal are…
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The Detroit Tigers were interested in Carlos Correa. They didn’t care to be very private about their affection, either. The meeting was blown off by Hinch as a meeting between friends and delivering a gift for Correa’s new baby, but their meeting nearly broke the internet and certainly contained conversation beyond the best brand of…
For years now, the Detroit Tigers brass has made it clear that the long and painful rebuild that we fans have had to endure for approximately five years now was centered on developing starting pitching, and we have seen this focus pay dividends with the blossoming of Casey Mize, Tarik Skubal, and Matt Manning.
The Detroit Tigers offered shortstop Carlos Correa a 10 year contract valued at $275 million, according to Buster Olney of ESPN. While Correa remains unsigned during the owners’ lockout of the players, the Tigers moved on by signing Javier Báez to a six year, $140 million contract. Correa was the clear favorite of Tigers’ fans
As talks between Major League Baseball owners and players on a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) have stalled, one of the most troubling issues is that of “revenue sharing”. That is, money that is funneled from larger to smaller market teams with the idea that doing so will help to “level the playing field” created
This is the second of a dozen articles about the best individual player tools in the Detroit Tigers farm system — also known as The 12 Tools of Christmas. You can read about the best hitters in the system here.
We’re still a long way from spring training, and free agency has been rudely interrupted by the lockout, but as there’s nothing going on, this is as good a time as any to take stock of how the 2022 Detroit Tigers are shaping up. To help us, we have Dan Symborski’s new ZIPS forecast for
One of the most contentious issues in the current round of collective bargaining is the issue of teams “tanking”, or not making an effort to field a competitive team and failing to spend on player salaries. The players’ association has made it clear that there will be no new CBA without addressing this issue. Much
The Detroit Tigers are finally starting to spend money and try and build a contending team. But, many fans are still upset the Tigers didn’t sign more players before the lockout. Though what I think a lot more people have to realize is that it’s not gonna take just one free agency class to be…
Shortly after the calendar turned to 2021, Detroit Tigers general manager, Al Avila, did something he hadn’t done in nearly five years. On January 5th, 2021, he signed outfielder Robbie Grossman to a two-year, $10 million contract. It was the first multi-year contract the Tigers had given to a free agent since they signed Justin
The rest of the world has not stopped playing baseball as the Dominican Winter League (LIDOM) is in full swing and several Detroit Tigers including Willi Castro, Ángel De Jesύs, who was just added to the 40-man roster, and Drew Carlton, have all have seen action.
Debate around pitchers tends to center around ERA and FIP, and their component parts. However, there are a few other interesting tools for examining a pitcher’s overall performance in a season. One element that isn’t captured by either statistic is how often a given starting pitcher was, or wasn’t, bailed out of tight situations by
MLB owners have locked out the players, so Detroit Tigers news figures to be a bit scarce for the next few weeks. But that lull gives us a chance to look to the minor leagues and hopefully give readers a better idea of the skills displayed by players in Detroit’s farm system.
With the lockout in full swing, it allows the opportunity to look at the game of baseball from various angles. One angle that has been on my mind for quite some time is the game’s growth within the young demographics.
Normally the it would be time for Winter Meetings. Fans would be hoping their team makes a flurry of moves and plucks a gem from the Rule 5 Draft. This is not that year. The lockout has halted almost everything. Normally following the Rule 5 Draft MLB portion, there is a minor league portion that
AMARILLO, TEXAS – JULY 30: Pitcher Nick Kuzia #29 of the San Antonio Missions pitches during the game against the Amarillo Sod Poodles at HODGETOWN Stadium on July 30, 2021 in Amarillo, Texas. (Photo by John E. Moore III/Getty Images)
For most of “Contender November” we focused on potential free agent signings and trades to make the Detroit Tigers better. The Tigers did their part by trading for Tucker Barnhart and signing Eduardo Rodriguez and Javier Báez to big contracts, but the MLB lockout has cast a pall over what should have been an exciting…
Yesterday was the first “Victory Monday” of the season for the Detroit Lions, and with Major League Baseball on strike, I thought it’d be a fun idea to give the Detroit Tigers something to do and see how the roster would line up on the gridiron!
This year’s selections for overlooked players to be elected to the Hall of Fame are in. The Modern Baseball committee, as you’ll recall, elected Tigers greats Alan Trammell and Jack Morris to the Hall back in 2018. This year it was the Golden Days and Early Days committees’ turn, covering players active between 1950 and
Thanks for joining us once again. Brandon Day and Ashley MacLennan are back to talk about the Javy Báez signing, what it means for the team on the field, and what, if anything it says about ownership and the front office’s plans for the future. Then, we’ll have to get into less entertaining fare. After