Starting pitcher Casey Mize’s successful return from Tommy John surgery could help the Detroit Tigers with having a pitching surplus, and thus more trade capital. (Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images) If you were a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation, you knew the adventure didn’t really begin until Captain Jean-Luc Picard told the crew…
The Washington Nationals have a practically permanent spot at the bottom of the MLB Power Rankings. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images) In this week’s MLB Power Rankings, teams like the St. Louis Cardinals ride the lightning toward the playoffs while the Boston Red Sox fade to black in the final few weeks.
A group of players gathered around Michael Pineda‘s locker in the clubhouse to say goodbye. After Sunday’s 3-2 loss, Pineda — a nine-year MLB veteran with 180 starts and more than 1,000 innings of experience — was designated for assignment (removed from the 40-man roster), as the Detroit Tigers continue to showcase and evaluate younger players in
The Detroit Tigers fired GM Al Avila on Aug. 10. Chairman Chris Ilitch said he made the decision to pull the trigger then in an effort to get a head start on the search process. Now, it appears he wasn’t kidding when he said that.
The Detroit Tigers reached a new low for the season Sunday, losing 3-2 to the Kansas City Royals to fall 32 games under .500 for the first time since 2019. It has, if you’ve been reading this newsletter all season (or have simply watched a game or two), been a season of lows. Succinctly put,
Toledo Mud Hens 6, Rochester Red Wings 3 (box) The Mud Hens took down the Red Wings again on Sunday, completely a 5-1 series victory with a strong performance from the bullpen. Joey Wentz made another short start in this one, as the Tigers remain careful with him following a nearly two month absence in
News leaks are verboten within Ilitch Holdings. There is a furious search for a new Tigers general manager moving closer to completion, but no one is talking. A best guess is the Tigers will move this month, with the first half of September a more likely target for naming a new front-office leader. There is abundant
FORT WAYNE, IN – The West Michigan Whitecaps enjoyed a five-run third inning and a rare opportunity to trim their postseason deficit as part of a 9-4 win over the Fort Wayne TinCaps on Sunday night in front of 7,048 fans at Parkview Field. The Whitecaps deficit now sits at FORT WAYNE, IN – The
DETROIT — The slider from Gregory Soto came in biting on Royals rookie sensation Bobby Witt Jr., but not quite as hard as Soto or catcher Tucker Barnhart might have wanted it. It came in at the knees, but out over the plate, where Witt connected for a hard-hit ground ball through the left side
The Tigers have designated right-hander Michael Pineda for assignment, Cody Stavenhagen of The Athletic was among those to report. His roster spot will go to reliever Luis Castillo. Pineda, 33, is a veteran who made his MLB debut with the Mariners back in 2011 and has since pitched for the Yankees and Twins. He joined
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Detroit — Who knows what the Tigers’ rotation might look like in a couple of weeks. After they lost the rubber match to the Royals 3-2 Sunday, manager AJ Hinch announced that veteran right-hander Michael Pineda, who was signed for one year and made $5.5 million and made just 11 starts, was being designated for assignment. “Nothing
We hear from Javier Baez after gets a pair of hits, scores a run and makes a doozy of a relay throw Sunday. #DetroitRoots
We hear from manager A.J. Hinch after his Tigers drop a 3-2 decision to the Royals on Sunday, then designate for assignment Michael Pineda. #Leinenkugels
Sunday, September 4 Game 6 of series – walk off
ROCHESTER, NY.: Brendon Davis was one of three Toledo Mud Hens hitters that pieced together multi-hit efforts and Toledo capitalized on a big fifth inning to create separation from the Rochester Red Wings in a 6-3 triumph at Frontier Field on Sunday afternoon. The Mud Hens secured a season series ROCHESTER, NY.: Brendon Davis was
The Detroit Tigers saved the game and squandered it, all in the eighth inning Sunday against the Kansas City Royals. The defense — left-fielder Victor Reyes, shortstop Javier Báez and catcher Tucker Barnhart — executed a relay to perfection to get a K.C. runner at the plate, but on the next play, a hard-hit ball got past
Matt Manning wasn’t at his best on a drizzly Sunday afternoon in the Motor City, but it was Gregory Soto’s late-game mistakes that cost the Detroit Tigers the game and series against the Kansas City Royals. The Tigers fell, 3-2, after keeping things tied for most of the afternoon. Manning had a long first inning,
On those back lots at TigerTown, the training grounds that make Lakeland, Florida, the Tigers’ minor-league headquarters, a MLB team’s freshest prospects can be seen most summer days collected at a quadrant of four fields. The workouts and intra-squad games sometimes give way to one of the fields hosting a Florida Complex League game. And
When the Detroit Tigers selected SP Jackson Jobe over SS Marcelo Mayer with the third overall pick in the 2021 MLB Draft, fans like myself were livid. They had just passed over the consensus best player in the draft for a high school pitcher—and history suggested they would come to regret that decision.