Detroit News

Tony Paul   | The Detroit News The Tigers and Red Wings are staying put. The teams announced Tuesday they have agreed to a multi-year extension with flagship radio station 97.1 The Ticket. The Tigers and Red Wings first teamed up with The Ticket in 2001, back when the Ticket was solely based on 1270-AM. Simulcast

Rob Maaddi  |  Associated Press Dick Allen hit the ball so hard, fans in Philadelphia started showing up in batting practice during his rookie season just to watch him hammer shots over the Coca-Cola sign atop the left-center field roof at Connie Mack Stadium. The rousing attention, he got that early. The rightful acclaim, sadly,

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit — It was a day he will never forget. July 27, Tigers hosting the Royals at Comerica Park, a moment he’d waited seven years for. Didn’t matter that it was the ninth inning of a blowout loss, Anthony Castro finally made his big-league debut. “Today we make history,” he

Lynn Henning   | The Detroit News Somewhere from the moment he left Toledo the week of Sept. 20 and headed home to North Canton, Ohio, symptoms showed up. Fever. Chills. A diminished sense of taste. Then, the diagnosis: COVID-19 had blindsided another Tigers prospect, and another of the millions who have been slammed by a

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit — Welcome to the virtual winter meetings. Instead of the entire industry converging on a convention center in Dallas this week — as was the plan pre-pandemic — front-office executives, managers, agents, athletic trainers and medical staffs, media-relations bosses, equipment reps, exhibitors and job seekers will conduct their business from

Jake Seiner  |  AP Sports Writer Major League Baseball and all 30 of its teams are suing their insurance providers, citing billions of dollars in losses during the 2020 season played almost entirely without fans due to the coronavirus pandemic. The suit, filed in October in California Superior Court in Alameda County, was obtained Friday

Andrew Seligman  |  Associated Press Chicago — Len Kasper, the longtime TV play-by-play broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs, is joining the radio booth of the crosstown White Sox. Kasper, who spent 16 seasons on the North Side, will call games alongside former major leaguer Darrin Jackson. He replaces Andy Masur, who took over after longtime announcer

Associated Press  |  Associated Press Anaheim, Calif. – The Los Angeles Angels have acquired veteran shortstop José Iglesias from the Baltimore Orioles in a trade for minor league right-handers Garrett Stallings and Jean Pinto. The clubs announced the deal Wednesday. Iglesias batted .373 with three homers and 17 RBIs in 39 games with the Orioles

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit – While teams across Major League Baseball unburdened themselves of significant lumps of salary Wednesday — albeit at the expense of significant talent — the Tigers offered contracts to all nine of their arbitration-eligible players. What could end up costing them in excess of $20 million for the

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit — Shortstop Willi Castro is the wrong guy to make snap judgements on. You see him come up and struggle mightily in the field and at the plate in 30 games in September of 2019 and you figure he can’t play at the big-league level. Then he comes back

Lynn Henning   | The Detroit News In a 50-year timeline of Tigers managers personally covered, four rank as bombshell hires: 1. Billy Martin, 1970 2. Sparky Anderson, 1979 3. Jim Leyland, 2005 4. AJ Hinch, 2020 Only because Martin was Martin — a hired gun, a short-term choice, effective for immediate needs but poison for the

Associated Press  |  The Detroit News The Cleveland Indians sold side-arm reliever Adam Cimber to the Marlins for $100,000, and Miami designated right-hander José Ureña for assignment. Ureña, the Marlins’ opening day starter in 2018 and 2019, spent six seasons with the Marlins and had been with them longer than any other active player. He went

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit – Guess how many relievers in the major leagues last season inherited at least 11 runners and stranded them all? That would be one. And he pitched for the Tigers. It was quite a rookie season for right-hander Bryan Garcia. He posted a 1.66 ERA (four earned runs

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit – In the recent past, Tigers general manager Al Avila has made good use of the non-tender deadline to trim payroll. Catcher James McCann and reliever Alex Wilson are just two examples of that. And yet, in a year where teams are expected to non-tender and send more

Tony Paul   | The Detroit News Bob Miller, a Detroit native who was a pitcher for the legendary 1959 Philadelphia Phillies “Whiz Kids” team that lost to the New York Yankees in the World Series, and and after his playing career returned to his alma mater, University of Detroit, to coach baseball for nearly four

Lynn Henning   | The Detroit News Maybe this worked out, after all. In a year when we were advised to keep Thanksgiving on the light side, minus the usual stream of friends and family who otherwise arrived at noon for drinks, more drinks, and at some point dinner, all the privacy a pandemic imposed in

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit – When Drew VerHagen said goodbye to his family and girlfriend in January, he figured he’d see them again in a couple of months. He had signed to pitch for the Nippon Ham-Fighters of the Japan Pacific League. He would send them plane tickets to Sapporo when he

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit – The Tigers on Friday placed four young pitchers on the 40-man roster, effectively protecting them from being taken by another organization in the Rule 5 draft on Dec. 10. Right-handers Matt Manning (the No. 3-ranked prospect in the system), Alex Faedo (No. 10) and Alex Lange (unranked),

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit — Since collecting his $2.85 million signing bonus from the Tigers in July 2019, 17-year-old outfield prospect Roberto Campos has bought his parents a home near the Tigers’ baseball academy in the Dominican Republic. He’s worked out nearly every day, refined his diet and transformed some of the baby fat

Associated Press New York — Mets second baseman Robinson Canó was suspended for 162 games by Major League Baseball on Wednesday after he tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug for the second time in his decorated career. The 38-year-old Canó will miss the entire 2021 season and lose $24 million in salary. The eight-time All-Star hit a