Lakeland, Fla. — The tattoo on his left arm reads, nosce te ipsum, which translated from Latin means, “know thyself.” Sometimes a piece of body art cuts right to the core of a person. “That means a lot to me,” Tigers outfielder Jacob Robson said after spending Sunday morning running through a battery of hitting and defensive drills
LAKELAND, Fla. — Now, this was different. Kind of like watching a baseball game with double vision. A pitching machine set up on a backfield at TigerTown shot out two balls at nearly the same moment — one right after the other — and Detroit Tigers prospect Spencer Torkelson was in the batter’s box. Torkelson moved on the
Major league baseball players and owners met for the fifth straight day on Saturday, with the players making significant concessions on key issues in an effort to reach an agreement in advance of the owners’ imposed deadline of February 28 to start the 2022 season on time. MLB owners rejected the players’ proposal, choosing instead
The Detroit Tigers were supposed to be playing the Washington Nationals on Saturday–instead, minicamp rolls on, and players on the 40-man roster are left on the outside looking in as the player’s association awaits a deal with ownership.
Baseball, famously known as a sport without a clock, is watching the hours and minutes tick away until Monday. That’s when the MLB owners, who locked out the players Dec. 2 after the expiration of the sport’s collective bargaining agreement, say the deadline is for a new CBA. If there’s no deal in place by
Joe Lapointe | Special to the Detroit Free Press Editor’s note: This column contains language used in a 1979 Detroit Free Press article, and other published works, that could be offensive. In that this is Black History Month, this quiz is about the racial integration of the Detroit Tigers. Which of the following statements is true? 1.
LAKELAND, Fla. — The trash talk never stopped. When Riley Greene would hit a ball to the warning track, Josh Lester would quip: You need some more juice. Or when Spencer Torkelson was stuck on 29 home runs late in 2021, Lester would joke: Why does your home run total start with a two? “It
In the latest step of Tyler Glasnow’s recovery from Tommy John surgery, the Rays right-hander has started throwing, agent Joel Wolfe told Marc Topkin of The Tampa Bay Times. Glasnow underwent his surgery in early August, so while it’s very up in the air as to whether or not he’ll be able to make it
Recently, I wrote about a pair of lefties to help the Detroit Tigers bullpen in Andrew Chafin and Matt Strahm but the next pair of articles I am going to focus on are trading for pitching help. Jake Odorizzi may sound familiar to Tigers fans as he spent three seasons before signing with the Astros…
Going into the offseason, there were many parallels between the top two free agents, Carlos Correa and Corey Seager. Both were shortstops reaching free agency at the age of 27 and coming off excellent platform seasons. Seager, along with agent Scott Boras, secured a ten-year, $325MM contract from the Rangers prior to the lockout. Correa,
LAKELAND, Fla. — Riley Greene wanted to arrive at Spring Training ready to compete for a job at Comerica Park. So he went back to Hagerty High School, his alma mater, just outside Orlando. “It does not fly on that field, I can tell you that,” Greene said earlier this week after his first workout
Lynn Henning | The Detroit News Lakeland, Florida – This once-humdrum Florida town that was built among citrus groves and phosphate mines and for 88 years has been the Tigers’ spring home might be considered Detroit’s sister city. Lakeland: Folks from Michigan think of it as a kind of Nirvana. As a birthplace, each year, for
LAKELAND, Fla. — Matt Manning is driving home from Tampa. He is cruising along Interstate 4, a highway located entirely within Florida. The 24-year-old resides in Lakeland and isn’t far from TigerTown, where the Detroit Tigers run their spring training operations. It’s been this way for Manning’s entire professional career. But this year, he seems so far away. “I think at some
LAKELAND, Fla. — The thief does not look like a thief. He appears to be a clean-cut, upstanding citizen. Because that’s exactly who Gage Workman is. A great guy who happens to be one of the Detroit Tigers’ top prospects. Spencer Torkelson once described Workman in the most glowing way: “He’s literally the perfect human. That’s the guy
Ronald Blum | Associated Press Jupiter, Fla. — Baseball players and owners took a first step toward salvaging opening day, nearing agreement Friday on an amateur draft lottery during lockout negotiations that included a surprise one-on-one meeting between Commissioner Rob Manfred and union head Tony Clark. While an agreement on the draft was not complete, the talks
One week after pushing back the start of the exhibition season, Major League Baseball announced that Spring Training games in both the Grapefruit and Cactus Leagues will not be played until at least March 8. The previous delay addressed games up until March 4, and an MLB spokesperson told reporters on Friday afternoon that the
Spencer Torkelson is excited to be doing what he does best, and his swing has been on full display at Tigers Minor League Camp. The Tigers #1 prospect according to MLB Pipeline discusses the work he’s putting in, as well as his friendship with another highly-touted prospect in Lakeland, Riley Greene.
Lakeland, Fla. — There was a fair bit of good-natured grumbling around the clubhouse and front office Friday morning about a team of ringers that shot 19-under-par and stole the hardware at the Tigers’ annual team golf scrambles at Grasslands Country Club Thursday. “I didn’t have much to do with that,” said Tigers’ right-hander Austin
Lynn Henning | Special to The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — Strolling through the quadrant of practice fields at TigerTown on Friday morning was Al Avila, who runs the Tigers as general manager and executive vice president of baseball operations, should you be into formal job titles. It was one of those late-February mornings the Michigan fandom dreams
LAKELAND, Fla. — Traffic on Lake Parker Drive gets busy around rush hour, but the two-lane road that runs by Tigertown’s back fields usually stays quiet in between. So maybe it’s a good thing that Tigers prospects like shortstop Gage Workman usually take batting practice in Minor League minicamp just after 9 a.m. ET. On