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
First and foremost, I want to thank Duane Pesice from our Chicago Cubs site, Cubbies Crib, for the headline idea. As the news broke that the owners and the MLBPA have made minimal progress in coming to an agreement, Detroit Tigers fans and front office staff watched the future Tigers down in Lakeland this past week.
LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers prospect Dylan Smith wants to review his five-pitch performance against outfielder Eric De La Rosa. He opens the Twitter app on his iPhone and pulls up the video. The 21-year-old right-hander threw 15 pitches Friday morning, five each to Gage Workman, De La Rosa and Colt Keith. Tigers pitching coach Chris Fetter watched
Lakeland, Fla. — It is not quite Newton’s third law of motion, but every action a club takes that impacts its roster invariably comes with an opposite, and sometimes negative, impact on other players. Say the club signs a two-time All-Star and Gold Glove-winning shortstop named Javier Baez to a six-year, $140 million contract. Great deal
Are you ready for the 20th season of Mud Hens baseball at Fifth Third Field? Well then – let’s PLAY BALL! This year, the Toledo Mud Hens will play 75 home games in the Glass City from April 5 through September 25. The Hens are Back in Full Swing for Are you ready for the
Do you remember new wave music? There might be a few too young to remember this push of music that occurred between the late 70s to around the mid-80s, depending on who you asked. The Detroit Tigers are getting a “new wave” of prospects that are getting attention from national baseball analysis.
When the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between Major League Baseball and its’ players ended on December 1, 2021, MLB immediately imposed a lockout of the players, even though no games were scheduled for another four months. They didn’t have to lock the players out. That was a choice, a tactic intended to put pressure on
LAKELAND, Fla. — You look at Colt Keith on a backfield at TigerTown and you think: “Dang, that kid just keeps growing. He is freakin’ huge.” The 20-year-old Detroit Tigers prospect went through a growth spurt in the offseason, adding an inch of heighth and 30 pounds of muscle. Now, he’s up to 6 feet