The Tigers announced that catcher Donny Sands has cleared waivers. He was outrighted to Triple-A Toledo and will remain in the organization without occupying a spot on the 40-man roster. Detroit acquired Sands alongside Nick Maton and Matt Vierling in last offseason’s trade sending Gregory Soto and Kody Clemens to Philadelphia. While Maton and Vierling saw a decent amount
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
Welcome to 2024, and more importantly, welcome to the 6-week countdown to spring training. While the offseason obviously isn’t over yet, there are still free agents on the market, still potential trades hiding up GM sleeves, I think it’s a safe time to start reflecting on how hot stove season went. In our open thread
The Tigers re-signed lefty reliever Andrew Vasquez to a minor league contract with an invite to big league Spring Training, reports Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free-Press. He finished last season in Detroit after being claimed off waivers from Philadelphia in early August. Vasquez, 30, made 42 appearances at the big league level a year
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
Detroit Free Press sports writers Tony Garcia and Rainer Sabin, the co-hosts of the Michigan sports podcast “Hail Yes!”, share their instant reactions to Michigan’s comeback win over Alabama in the Rose Bowl, 27-20 in overtime. MORE COVERAGE: https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2024/01/01/michigan-football-alabama-rose-bowl-overtime/72079237007/ For more Detroit and Michigan news, sports and entertainment, follow the Detroit Free Press on: Facebook
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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
As we arrive at the last Friday of 2023, it seems like the perfect time to take a look back at the year that was. Baseball in Detroit felt fun again, even if there were issues, and even if the Tigers didn’t have a “winning” season. In fairness to them, only one team in the
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
The Tigers have hired Dylan Axelrod to the organization, per a report from Tigers Torkmoil on X. Axelrod will have the title of pitching performance and integration coordinator. Axelrod, now 38, pitched in the majors for the White Sox and Reds from 2011 to 2015. For the last four years, he was working for the
The Detroit Tigers have added a lot to their player development programs over the last few seasons, and under Scott Harris that process has only expanded. The Tigers are making another significant hire in adding former MLB pitcher and most recently the Los Angeles Angels pitching coordinator, Dylan Axelrod. The 38-year-old will hold a new
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
The Pirates are coming off a season that saw the club take some steps forward as young players like Jack Suwinski and Johan Oviedo took steps forward while prospects like Henry Davis and Endy Rodriguez rose to the majors for the first time. Unfortunately, those young players didn’t help Pittsburgh much in the standings as
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