LAKELAND, Fla. — Four weeks ago, Detroit Tigers right-hander Alex Faedo met John DeRouin. “We clicked immediately,” Faedo said. DeRouin, a 23-year-old community college dropout, is the Tigers’ new rehab pitching coordinator. He serves as a conduit for information passed from pitching coach Chris Fetter and assistant pitching coach Robin Lund to pitchers recovering from injuries
LAKELAND, Fla. — They showed grit. They showed tenacity. “Come on!” Detroit Tigers pitcher Alex Lange barked — in his best football player bark. The Tigers brought some much-needed levity and fun, not to mention a little bit of the Detroit Lions to spring training on Tuesday morning. Lange lined up at quarterback. He crouched over,
LAKELAND, Fla. — Opening Day is 43 days away. Spring training is underway for the Detroit Tigers with the first full-squad workout scheduled for Monday. Once March rolls around, the Tigers will start cutting players from camp. The 26-man roster must be finalized by the end of March. The Tigers start the regular season March
The arrival of the pitch timer, restrictions on extreme infield shifts and bigger bases combine for the most significant alterations to MLB rules in decades, and that’s going to take some getting used to for everybody. That’s why MLB is using this week at the start of Spring Training to demonstrate the new rules for
LAKELAND, Fla. — Alex Faedo was on the row of bullpen mounds on the back fields at Tigertown, getting ready to throw Tuesday morning, when Jake Rogers squatted behind the corresponding plate. A handful of pitchers were throwing, but Rogers took a familiar spot. “I always ask him, ‘Are you sure you want to let
Lakeland, Fla. — A lot of his closest teammates are suddenly gone. Harold Castro, Willi Castro, Victor Reyes, his late-inning leverage reliever buddies Gregory Soto and Joe Jimenez — they are all in other organizations now. You can’t blame Jose Cisnero for feeling just a tad lonely walking through the clubhouse at TigerTown. “I talked
LAKELAND, Fla. — On Monday night, Detroit Tigers right-handed pitcher Alex Faedo received a phone call from catcher Jake Rogers. They were watching “The Bachelor” in separate homes. Zach Shallcross, who played football at Cal Poly, is attempting to find love on ABC’s reality dating show. During Monday’s episode, Shallcross eliminated a woman from contention because
Faedo missed the 2020 and ’21 seasons after undergoing Tommy John surgery and missed the last two and a half months last year after hip surgery, is throwing bullpen sessions in Lakeland. Lakeland, Fla. — In some ways, Alex Faedo’s baseball journey can be viewed as a cautionary tale. Maybe if it’s not broke, don’t
MLB.TV is back for 2023 — with a big new feature. MLB’s streaming service launches Tuesday for the 2023 season. And now all MLB.TV subscribers will have access to Minor League Baseball included as part of their subscription — which means more live baseball than ever before, and more ways to follow your favorite team’s affiliates. MLB.TV
The Minor League Ballpark Guides series spotlights each stadium across baseball’s affiliated ranks. Each edition provides ballpark highlights, from concessions to seating options to in-game entertainment to mascots. Ballpark Guides also take travelers through each facility’s surrounding area, encompassing the best places in town to eat or drink, nearby tourist attractions and more. Plan your
Welcome to Lakeland’s Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium, where Detroit faithful have been gathering since the 1960s to see the Tigers of the future under the Florida sun. Lakeland Flying Tigers (Single-A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers since 1963)Established: 1960 (as Lakeland Indians in Florida State League)Ballpark: Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium (since
The Detroit Tigers held their first workouts of spring camp on Monday. Baseball is back, my friends. Expectations aren’t high, but with so much change in the organization over the last six months, they can’t help but be more interesting, at the least. While pitchers and catchers are already working out, the official first workout
LAKELAND, Fla. — Outside the Detroit Tigers spring training headquarters, Nick Maton walked up to two doors and froze — unsure which one to take to the clubhouse. “Right or left?” he asked on Monday afternoon. Maton, one of the newest Tigers, wasn’t sure. He arrived in Lakeland on Sunday night. By Monday morning, he
The Tigers added right-hander Michael Lorenzen on a one-year, $8.5MM guarantee earlier this offseason. He’ll add some depth to a Detroit rotation that’ll be without Casey Mize and Tarik Skubal to start the season (likely the whole year in the former’s case), joining Eduardo Rodriguez, Spencer Turnbull, Matt Manning and Matthew Boyd in the presumptive season-opening rotation. The 31-year-old indicated today he’s
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI – JUNE 07: Quarterback Patrick Mahomes (back) of the Kansas City Chiefs hits a ball during the Big Slick celebrity softball game prior to a game between the Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium on June 07, 2019 in Kansas City, Missouri. MLB news, David Ortiz, Cubs (Photo…
LAKELAND, Fla. — Time will tell if Alex Lange is ready to step in as the Tigers’ closer. But the young right-hander was at least ready for the question Monday morning. “Yeah, there’s going to be a closer for sure,” Lange said. To twist the oft-used Spring Training phrase, Lange has reported to camp in the
If you were a diehard Yankees fan or prospect watcher about 15 years ago, you likely know the name Humberto Sanchez. A native of the Bronx, Sanchez was a 31st round pick by the Tigers in 2001, signing for $1MM as a draft-and-follow. Sanchez started for the World Team in the Futures Game in 2006,
LAKELAND, Fla. — A reporter laughed as right-handed pitcher Michael Lorenzen, who signed a one-year, $8.5 million contract this offseason, revealed his desire to compete as a two-way player, in some capacity, with the Detroit Tigers. Only Lorenzen wasn’t kidding around. “We’ll see,” he said. “I have four bats coming.” Lorenzen has a long history
Lakeland, Fla. — It turned out for the best. That is how Tigers outfielder Akil Baddoo is looking at it, anyway. He thought he might be playing for Team Great Britain in the World Baseball Classic next month. His parents are from the nations of Ghana and Trinidad and Tobago, formerly under British rule. But
Lakeland, Fla. — Michael Lorenzen is here to pitch. First and foremost. The Tigers are paying the 31-year-old veteran right-hander $8.5 million, with $1.5 million in reachable incentives, to help stabilize their starting rotation. But, if he had his way, he’d be a two-way player. “I’m obsessed with the game of baseball,” Lorenzen said Monday