Detroit Tigers

This story was excerpted from Jason Beck’s Tigers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. The Tigers selected Casey Mize with the top pick in the 2018 MLB Draft with dreams of adding a devastating splitter to their future staff. As Detroit looks to contend in

The Tigers agreed to terms with three of their four arbitration-eligible players on one-year contracts, reaching deals with left-hander Tarik Skubal, catcher Jake Rogers and outfielder Akil Baddoo. Skubal’s deal is worth $2,650,000, Rogers at $1,700,000 and Baddoo at $1,550,000. Right-hander Casey Mize is the lone remaining arbitration-eligible Tiger. Teams and players faced an 8

The 2024 international signing period opens on Monday, Jan. 15, and one only need look at last year’s Major League Baseball award winners to see how important finding talent in this market can be. It can be a high-profile seven-figure bonus signing like Shohei Ohtani, signed in 2017 and now a two-time MVP, or more

Over the first three parts of the 2024 MLB Pipeline Poll series, all of the questions were about individual players and their tools. In the finale of the series, we’re switching gears and have asked front office executives to take a deeper look at farm systems. This line of questioning provides a peek into which

Tarik Skubal was the best starting pitcher in baseball last season, which is a purposefully inflammatory statement absolutely meant to make your eyes pop out of your head. (“Who? The guy who won seven games and received zero Cy Young votes?”) We’re here to bring the heavily caveated receipts, because his ability to turn a

ESPN and FOX have unveiled initial broadcast schedules for the 2024 Major League Baseball season, and even without a complete picture, there’s plenty to get excited about. Postseason rematches, international road trips and special events abound. Here are some intriguing nationally televised games to mark on your calendar in 2024. The 2024 campaign will mark

This story was excerpted from Jason Beck’s Tigers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. The Tigers’ turnaround from 119 losses in 2003 to an American League pennant three years later was a renaissance that changed the course of the franchise and set up

This story was excerpted from Jason Beck’s Tigers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. Tigers president of baseball operations Scott Harris, much like former team president/CEO Dave Dombrowski, is incapable of saying his team has enough pitching. There’s no such thing, the two

Put the Times Square ball back in storage, and let’s take out the crystal ball instead. With the dawn of each new year, the MLB Pipeline gang makes our predictions on which prospects will break out in each of the 30 farm systems in the season ahead. In last year’s edition, our biggest hit was

This story was excerpted from Jason Beck’s Tigers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. Jack Flaherty is a California kid born and raised, drafted by the Cardinals out of famed high school baseball power Harvard-Westlake in 2014. But it wasn’t hard to find

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Every season has its surprise performances — it’s just a question of which players will be responsible for them. What’s more, because “breakout” is a pretty flexible term, a lot of guys could conceivably have one, from top prospects to veterans who’ve yet to find their footing between injuries and roster crunches, to players —

In 2023, Minor League Baseball featured thrilling prospect debuts, electric performances and moments that went beyond the box score. All commemorated by the inaugural MiLB Awards on MLB Network. Let’s look back on the year in MiLB. On the Saturday of the Masters, High-A West Michigan broadcasters Dan Hasty and Nate Wangler transported fans from

Part of what makes baseball the best are the feats and amazing stats accruing left and right, every single day. We chronicle them throughout the year, but there’s no better time than before the calendar flips to take a look back. It’s hard to pick just one stat per team, especially after another season that

A nine-RBI game? Thirteen strikeouts in relief? A 6-for-6 showing? It all happened in 2023, a season that saw countless memorable performances at the plate and on the mound. MLB hitters combined for nine three-homer games, and 41 different pitchers racked up 12 or more K’s in a single game — including Lance Lynn‘s 16-strikeout

We talk about breakout prospects all the time, like Ethan Salas going from being a 16-year-old new signee to a Double-A player in just a few months or Junior Caminero starting the season outside the Top 100 and ending it at No. 6 (and likely higher by the time of our next update). But what

This story was excerpted from Jason Beck’s Tigers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. The Detroit Lions ended 2023 showing the world how starved the Motor City has been for its sports teams to break out. Will 2024 be the Tigers’ turn? Detroit

Former Major Leaguer Willie Horton was raised in the city of Detroit and made his mark with the Tigers during the 1960s and ‘70s. His best moment on the diamond occurred in 1968 when he helped Detroit win the World Series over the Cardinals in seven games. But playing baseball wasn’t the only fun Horton

They’re the exceptions, however. Most prospects face adversity at some point before reaching the big leagues. As 2023 comes to a close, we want to celebrate a dozen prospects who struggled mightily in 2022 but rebounded in fine fashion last season to get their careers on track: Mason Albright, LHP, Rockies (No. 23)Albright set a

Standing out in the Minor Leagues requires talent, commitment and persistence. If you’ve got none of those things, a ridiculous costume might do. The world of the Minors is filled with all kinds of characters — from prospects making pro debuts to rehabbing Major League veterans — but perhaps none do as much to shape