Detroit City FC has set aside an allotment of free tickets for each home match in March and April for fans with baseball season tickets and/or Opening Day tickets, the club announced Tuesday after MLB could not come to an agreement earlier in the day to end its lockout. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred canceled 2022 Opening Day and announced
LAKELAND, Fla. — You have every reason to be mad and disgusted at Major League Baseball — why in the world couldn’t they figure this out? You have every reason to sickened and infuriated that Opening Day has been delayed and games are being canceled — MLB just turned its back on its fans. You
The boys of summer are quickly falling out of favor with the sporting public. So Metro Detroit’s premier soccer club is inviting disheartened baseball fans to try something new. Moments after Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred announced that the first week of regular-season games would be canceled as the sport’s lockout continues, Detroit City
Ronald Blum | Associated Press Jupiter, Fla. — Major League Baseball has canceled opening day, with Commissioner Rob Manfred announcing Tuesday the sport will scrap regular-season games over a labor dispute for the first time in 27 years after acrimonious lockout talks collapsed in the hours before management’s deadline. Manfred said he is canceling the first two
LAKELAND, Fla. — Roberto Campos walked towards the dugout with some satisfaction, only to be called back. The Tigers’ teenage slugging outfield prospect had just laced an opposite-field line drive to right field off right-hander Austin Bergner, six years his senior, and thought his at-bat was over. But with one pitch left in Bergner’s live
Ronald Blum | Associated Press Jupiter, Fla. — Players have rejected Major League Baseball’s “best and final offer” to end the sport’s lockout before the league’s deadline to avoid canceled games. MLB made its last offer about 90 minutes before a self-imposed 5 p.m. deadline Tuesday. The league has threatened to cancel opening day on March
Lakeland, Fla. — Imagine the fun they could have had back at Santa Rosa (California) Junior College back in the day. Garrett Hill and his twin brother Evan pitched for the Bearcubs. Garrett, who finished last season with the Tigers’ Double-A affiliate in Erie, is right-handed and Evan pitched left-handed. Imagine the coach filling out
LAKELAND, Fla. — It became a Battle Royale. Two Detroit Tigers prospects: Keider Montero vs. Izaac Pacheco. A young pitcher against an even younger hitter. Neither one giving in. Each one fighting. And it turned into an entertaining, revealing drama that seemed to go on for several minutes. Montero, 21, was on the mound at the backfields
Everybody thought the Detroit Tigers got their shortstop when they came to an eleventh-hour agreement with free-agent Javier Baez. Heck, the Detroit Tigers themselves likely thought the same thing. Recent reports indicate that the Detroit Tigers are still a suitor for perhaps the top player left on the market: Carlos Correa. Correa was the favorite…
LAKELAND, Fla — Austin Bergner stands on the pitcher’s mound in the TigerTown bullpens. The 24-year-old right-hander is throwing his brand-new slider to catcher Cooper Johnson. Positioned behind Bergner is Detroit Tigers‘ minor-league pitching director Gabe Ribas, a 42-year-old who spent the past four seasons as a pitching coordinator with the Los Angeles Dodgers. “A guy like Gabe Ribas is a very similar
LAKELAND, Fla — Austin Bergner stands on the pitcher’s mound in the TigerTown bullpens. The 24-year-old right-hander is throwing his brand-new slider to catcher Cooper Johnson. Positioned behind Bergner is Detroit Tigers‘ minor-league pitching director Gabe Ribas, a 42-year-old who spent the past four seasons as a pitching coordinator with the Los Angeles Dodgers. “A guy like Gabe Ribas is a very similar
Monday’s bargaining meetings between Major League Baseball and the players’ union in Jupiter, Florida, started at noon and lasted deep into the early morning hours. The league has insisted that February 28th was the date that a deal would have to be done to avoid losing regular season games for weeks now, but showed zero
For the first time since 2017, the Detroit Tigers are picking outside of the top ten in the MLB Draft. We first took a stab at projecting the top of this class way back in July, shortly after the 2021 draft concluded, and last week we checked in on how the college class was looking…
Lakeland, Fla. — You should have seen Eric De La Rosa tearing up the west coast JUCO circuit in 2018. The kid was unbelievable. Long, lanky, hitting right-handed in the three-hole for Grossmont College, a ridiculously high leg kick, just turning and burning on any pitch in the strike zone. And doing damage. Rickey Henderson-type damage.
Ronald Blum | Associated Press Jupiter, Fla. — Locked-out players and Major League Baseball engaged in a series of intense meetings that stretched into Monday night as they attempted to forge the path to a labor deal before management’s deadline for salvaging opening day on March 31. Commissioner Rob Manfred met with the union twice –
Detroit Tigers pitching prospect Keider Montero throws during spring training minor league minicamp on Monday, Feb. 21, 2022, at Tiger Town in Lakeland, Florida. Tigers5 Detroit Tigers: Projecting the Lakeland Flying Tigers bullpen by Roger Castillo
LAKELAND, Fla. — Finally, the matchup we’ve all been waiting for. Jackson Jobe vs. Izaac Pacheco. They were becoming close friends leading up to the 2021 draft, then the Detroit Tigers picked Jobe at No. 3 overall and Pacheco at No. 39 overall. Now that they’re in the same organization, their relationship has blossomed. They are represented by the
LAKELAND, Fla. — Beau Brieske looked filthy — the highest compliment possible for a pitcher. Brieske was on the mound Monday morning on the backfield at TigerTown, throwing a live batting practice, mowing down everybody he faced. He struck out Roberto Campos with ease. It didn’t seem to matter who went up there, Brieske chewed them up. He has
LAKELAND, Fla. — Jackson Jobe and Izaac Pacheco became good friends a few years ago as kids in amateur baseball’s showcase circuit. They fulfilled a shared dream of becoming pro teammates when the Tigers drafted both of them out of high school in last summer’s MLB Draft, then became roommates in the Tigers’ Minor League
Colt Keith is bigger and stronger than ever, so a change in equipment seems like a natural progression for the Tigers 5th Round Pick in the 2020 MLB Draft. After ripping his way through his first professional season in 2021, the 20-year-old infielder is showing off his increased power at Tigers Minor League Camp.