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Jay Cohen  |  Associated Press Seattle Mariners center fielder Kyle Lewis is the unanimous winner of the AL Rookie of the Year award, and Milwaukee Brewers reliever Devin Williams won the NL honor on Monday night. The 25-year-old Lewis was one of baseball’s breakout stars during the pandemic-shortened season, batting .262 with 11 homers and

Lynn Henning   | The Detroit News For those who follow big-league baseball — for those, say from the Tigers’ cosmos — this is not the kind of news that stacks up with hiring AJ Hinch as manager. But within baseball’s nursery, the minor leagues, there is drama bubbling. Or, perhaps, the more accurate word is anxiety.

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit – AJ Hinch’s first Tigers’ coaching staff is just about complete. On Saturday, the Tigers announced the additions of:   ►Hitting coach Scott Coolbaugh, former White Sox assistant hitting coach. ►Bench coach George Lombard, former Dodgers first base coach. ►Third base coach Chip Hale, former Nationals bench coach and

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit — The hiring of University of Michigan’s Chris Fetter as the new pitching coach on AJ Hinch’s staff was being touted across the baseball world Friday as a progressive move by the Tigers.  And that caused Fetter to wince just a bit. Yes, he’s 34 and he built one

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit – The Tigers are expected to announce Friday the hiring of Chris Fetter as the pitching coach on AJ Hinch’s staff. Fetter, 34, has been the pitching coach at the University of Michigan the last three years and previously worked in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization as minor

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit – From March through September, Tigers director of international operations Tom Moore was, like most of the baseball industry, shut down. Instead of his scouts scouring the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Colombia, Australia and the Far East for teenage prospects, he was stuck in his office in Lakeland doing skills-building

Tony Paul   | The Detroit News Detroit — The Tigers will host free walk-up and drive-through flu-shot clinics Monday and Tuesday at Comerica Park. The Tigers are working in partnership with Meijer, which also will host the clinics at Jackson Field, home of the Lansing Lugnuts, in downtown Lansing. The state of Michigan will be providing

Tony Paul   | The Detroit News Detroit — The Tigers haven’t done much winning lately. But they’re winning the offseason, on the back of a single move. They hired AJ Hinch to be their manager. Even if you disagree with the hire — and I’ve heard from many of you who aren’t at all thrilled about giving

Tony Paul   | The Detroit News Go through the gallery above to view Tony Paul’s top 50 Major League Baseball free agents for 2020. Click here if you have trouble viewing the gallery. Unlike in the NHL, where free agency began with a flurry of moves mere moments after the signing period began, you can expect

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Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit – Tigers general manager Al Avila has been very tip-lipped about his plans in free agency this winter. Understandably so. Not only is he loathe to tip his hand to the other 29 teams he’ll be bidding against, but probably never before has he entered an offseason with

Associated Press  |  Associated Press Baltimore – The Baltimore Orioles have picked up the $3.5 million club contract option on shortstop José Iglesias, who provided a boost to the team last season despite a series of injuries. Iglesias batted .373 with three homers and 24 RBIs in 39 games in 2019, his first season with

Lynn Henning   | The Detroit News It is the only news to have seriously blemished Tigers Instructional Camp, which wraps up its five-week run Saturday at the TigerTown complex, in Lakeland, Florida. Wilkel Hernandez, a 21-year-old, right-handed starter from La Carlota, Venezuela, and a man whose 6-foot-3 frame and high-rpm repertoire was hinting at down-the-road

Associated Press  |  Associated Press Pittsburgh – Chris Archer’s $11 million option for 2021 has been declined by the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the 32-year-old right-hander became a free agent. Archer will receive a $250,000 buyout, completing a contract he agreed to with Tampa Bay in April 2014. The deal originally guaranteed $25.5 million over six

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit – It won’t happen here. What we saw in Game 6 of the World Series, with Rays manager Kevin Cash taking the ball from bewildered starter Blake Snell, who had allowed just two singles in 5.1 innings and was preserving a 1-0 lead in a do-or-die game —

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Show Caption Hide Caption AJ Hinch meets the media as the new manager of Detroit Tigers AJ Hinch meets the media as the new manager of Tigers Detroit — AJ Hinch — after winning 481 games, two pennants and a World Series title with the Houston Astros — was suspended and fired in

AJ Hinch was at home in Woodlands, Texas, Tuesday night, as he said, counting the outs as the Dodgers secured their first World Series title since 1988.  What that final out meant to Hinch was freedom. His year-long suspension for his role in the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal was over. He could resume his career. He

Tony Paul   | The Detroit News Detroit — AJ Hinch has said he’s sorry, and shown remorse. And the Tigers have accepted his apology, naming him the franchise’s 39th manager Friday. It’s Hinch’s third managerial stop, after Arizona (2009-10) and Houston (2015-19); he was fired by the Astros amid the sign-stealing cheating scandal that rocked Major

Tony Paul   | The Detroit News Show Caption Hide Caption AJ Hinch meets the media as the new manager of Detroit Tigers AJ Hinch meets the media as the new manager of Tigers Detroit — The ace and the disgraced. New Tigers manager A.J. Hinch and former Tigers star pitcher Justin Verlander forever will be linked

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