Apple Podcasts | Spotify • Hosts: Shawn Windsor (@shawnwindsor) and Carlos Monarrez (@cmonarrez) • Editor: Robin Chan • Executive producers: Anjanette Delgado, Kirkland Crawford • Guests: Chris Solari, Free Press Michigan State beat writer • Email: swindsor@freepress.com On this episode: This week, the guys are pulling back the curtain a little bit on the process of storytelling by taking a deep dive on Carlos’ subscriber exclusive on Detroit
The Detroit News The Tigers open the 2023 season on Thursday at 3:10 at the Tampa Bay Rays. Here’s the Tigers’ Opening Day lineup: Matt Vierling, RF Javier Baez, SS Riley Greene, CF Eric Haase, C Spencer Torkelson, 1B Austin Meadows, LF Miguel Cabrera, DH Jonathan Schoop, 2B Ryan Kreidler, 3BEduardo Rodriguez, P
The Tigers announced Thursday that they’ve designated right-hander Edwin Uceta for assignment. That move, coupled with yesterday’s outright of Rony Garcia, will open the two roster spots necessary to select the contracts of lefty Chasen Shreve and righty Trey Wingenter. Both relievers are now formally on Detroit’s Opening Day roster. Additionally, the Tigers optioned lefty
Way back during the Winter Meetings, just a couple months into his tenure as Tigers president of baseball operations, Scott Harris laid out his vision for Detroit’s roster. “One thing we won’t waver on is we’re going to invest in our young players,” Harris said in December. “We are going to earmark at-bats and innings
St. Petersburg, Fla. — From the very start, it was a Twilight Zone kind of spring camp for new Tigers utility man Zach McKinstry. He was basically dead man walking from Day One. The Cubs, who had acquired him from the Dodgers the previous July, signed shortstop Dansby Swanson in the offseason. McKinstry wasn’t a
Baseball is one of the most unpredictable sports you’ll find. There are countless variables (weather, bad umpires, injuries and more) that are out of the players’ control, making it a wild 162-game ride.
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Dan Dickerson, the Detroit Tigers radio play-by-play announcer, makes an annual plea while teaching a journalism class at Michigan State. “We need more women in broadcasting,” Dickerson said. “I say this to my students every year.” So, he’s thrilled that Daniella Bruce is joining the Tigers radio broadcast. She’ll handle pre and postgame shows at
During the summer of 2019, the Detroit Tigers selected Hagerty High superstar Riley Greene with the fifth overall pick in the MLB draft. At the time, I was just getting into sports writing and interning for a now-defunct Detroit sports website while finishing up my degree at the University of Central Florida. If you’re not
Major League Baseball is back Tigers fans! With spring training now in the rearview mirror it is time to turn our attention to the 2023 MLB regular season, which has the Detroit Tigers facing the Tampa Bay Rays on the road to open up the schedule. While hope always springs eternal ahead of the first
The 2023 Major League Baseball season is nigh as the 30 professional franchises prepare for another summer schedule. With spring training now firmly in the record books, fans around the nation now have a better idea of what is in store for the upcoming campaign. Opening day marks the moment when the hopes and dreams
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Detroit Tigers are ready to start the 2023 season. The 26-man roster features two catchers, six infielders, four outfielders, one designated hitter, five starting pitchers and eight relief pitchers. The Tigers begin their 162-game schedule at 3:10 p.m. Thursday against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field. The Tigers finished 66-96
LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers manager A.J. Hinch will be the first to tell you: “I couldn’t hit in the big leagues.” Those were his words to an aging and unproven minor-league catcher, back in 2021. Hinch, now 48, went from being a third-round pick in the 1996 MLB draft out of Stanford to a
Left-hander Chasen Shreve and right-hander Trey Wingenter have made the Tigers’ Opening Day roster, Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press reports (Twitter link). Both were in camp as non-roster invitees, so the Tigers will need to make a pair of corresponding 40-man roster moves. Shreve, 32, is the more experienced of the pair, having
Johnny Kane catches up with Eduardo Rodriguez, who talks about his excitement about being the Opening Day starter and what the team’s expectations are for the 2023 season.
The Tigers announced that right-hander Rony García has cleared waivers and been outrighted to Triple-A Toledo. It was reported earlier today that the club plans to add lefty Chasen Shreve and righty Trey Wingenter to its roster prior to tomorrow’s season opener, which will require them to open two spots. This move creates one opening
ST. PETERSBUGH, Fla. — The Detroit Tigers added to their group of outfielders in the minor leagues. The Tigers acquired outfielder Grant Witherspoon on Wednesday from the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for cash considerations. The Rays selected Witherspoon in the fourth round (No. 120 overall) in the 2018 draft from Tulane. He could report to
St. Petersburg, Fla. − Tigers president Scott Harris was asked Wednesday how the renovations at Comerica Park were going and he started talking about the upgrades that have been made to the Tigers’ clubhouse. Hmm. The home opener is a week away. Is the work on moving in the center field fences 10 feet and
St. Petersburg, Fla. − Tigers president Scott Harris and manager AJ Hinch sat side by side in the Tigers’ dugout at Tropicana Field on Wednesday afternoon. As Hinch was putting the team through a final workout ahead of the season-opener Thursday against the Rays, Harris was busy making a few last-minute roster alterations and one