As the Detroit Tigers ponder more changes that need to be made, one of those things could be the moving in of the outfield walls to shorten up the fences in Comerica Park. It’s something that has been kicked around in the past and has started getting some more traction.
Trailing by two runs, Javier Báez stepped to the plate in September against Kansas City Royals right-handed reliever Dylan Coleman in the eighth inning. Zack Greinke tossed seven scoreless innings that night at Comerica Park, and immediately following his exit, the Detroit Tigers worked the bases loaded with one out. Báez watched a first-pitch slider
The Detroit Tigers will have a long offseason ahead of them, but they may be looking to make some changes in free agency. MCB’s own Jake Boes discussed the possibility of poaching a division rival for the team moving forward.
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The Detroit Tigers have a busy offseason ahead of them, and numerous 40-man roster transactions are first on the to-do list. We recently ran a guide to all the players coming off the 60-day IL, so now it’s time to do one going over the players we believe should be protected from next month’s Rule…
The Detroit Tigers have claimed left-handed reliever Sean Guenther off waivers from the Marlins. Guenther is currently rehabbing from Tommy John surgery. Guenther, who is just 26 years old, has only played one season in the major leagues, the 2021 season. He was a seventh-round draft pick in 2017 out of the University of Notre…
One of the dominoes in the offseason has started to fall as the Detroit Tigers now know that Andrew Chafin will be declining his 2023 option. He was mulling things over and taking some time after the season ended to come to terms with a decision.
Justin Verlander can be a persuasive fellow. You need little more evidence of this than the dexterous ability he showed this week to flip the script after he flipped off Phillies fans and came out looking like a hero and smelling like a rose. The made-for-video meeting with the offended pearl-clutching Phillies fan couldn’t have
Tigers second baseman Jonathan Schoop intends to exercise a $7.5MM player option for the 2023 season, reports Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free-Press. It’ll be the second season of the two-year extension he signed towards the end of the 2021 campaign. There was never much doubt about the decision, as Schoop wouldn’t have topped $7.5MM in
From the moment he was hired as the Tigers’ new President of Baseball Operations, Scott Harris has repeatedly said the Detroit Tigers will be very busy and will make a lot of moves this offseason. We’re going to find out what that actually looks like pretty soon. In the meantime, he continues to live up
Tigers reliever Andrew Chafin will decline his $6.5MM player option for 2023, reports Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free-Press. He’ll hit the open market five days after the World Series concludes in search of a new multi-year pact. It’ll be the third consecutive offseason in which the southpaw is available in free agency. After a lengthy
If the Detroit Tigers want him, they’ll have to get him again on the open market. Left-handed reliever Andrew Chafin plans to decline his 2023 player option, worth $6.5 million plus a $500,000 signing bonus, and become a free agent this offseason, according to a source with knowledge to the situation. The Tigers could re-sign
The Tigers announced that they have claimed left-hander Sean Guenther off waivers from the Marlins. He was on the 60-day injured list and remains there for now. Additionally, the Marlins have outrighted right-hander Paul Campbell and lefty Jake Fishman, per Jordan McPherson of the Miami Herald. At this time of year, many teams are facing
Detroit — This one has new Tigers team president Scott Harris’ fingerprints all over it. In his time in San Francisco, Harris helped rebuild the Giants’ pitching staff by taking well-researched and calculated fliers on pitchers either coming off bad years or coming off injuries. Remember, this is the man who signed Matthew Boyd last
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. Once the World Series ends, the Hot Stove season begins. And following a 96-loss season, the Tigers have work to do. Harris wouldn’t call it a rebuild during his
The Detroit Tigers claimed left-handed reliever Sean Guenther off waivers from the Miami Marlins, the team announced Wednesday. Guenther, 26, underwent Tommy John surgery in April 2022 and is on the 60-day injured list. The Tigers now have 10 players on the 60-day injured list that must be reinstated to the 40-man roster by the
When he ripped a pitch 459 feet Saturday for an artillery-grade home run in an Arizona Fall League game between the Salt River Rafters and Peoria Javelinas, it was tempting to think Colt Keith was probably on to something. As in strength, sourced in more muscle mass, which can happen when you’ve packed on 34
Al Avila did a lot of things wrong as Detroit Tigers GM. He didn’t draft well, and he was notoriously awful at trades. But one of the things he was lackluster at that often falls under the radar was his ability to identify and sign talent on the international free agent market.
DETROIT, MI – JULY 1: Second baseman Jonathan Schoop #7 of the Detroit Tigers moves to turn the ball after getting a force out on Andrew Benintendi #16 of the Kansas City Royals, but holds the ball on the play, during the first inning with umpire Manny Gonzalez #79 covering the base at Comerica Park…
The Detroit Tigers were anticipating that manager A.J. Hinch would be heading overseas to manage the 2022 Korea Series. It would have been the first time in 100 years that Major League Baseball sent players to Korea to participate in competition.