Horatio Williams always knew he wanted to help others. Raised by his mother and grandmother on the east side of Detroit, Williams said he returned home many nights only to be greeted by strangers whom he would openly treat like family. “We always helped people. We never had a lock on the door,” Williams said.
LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers prospect Spencer Torkelson took his position at first base. He is no longer a third baseman. That experiment is over. “All right, here we go!” Alan Trammell said. Trammell, the Tigers Hall of Fame shortstop, held a fungo bat in his right hand, a baseball in his left. Trammell celebrated his
LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers prospect Riley Greene is aware there’s an opening in center field on the Opening Day roster. The 21-year-old, the fifth overall pick in 2019, has put in his application. He wants the job. “I love playing center field,” Greene said Monday, after the first full-squad workouts of minor-league minicamp. “Center fielder is the best,
Lakeland, Fla. — The two offensive cornerstones of the Tigers’ future were on the back fields at Joker Marchant Stadium on Monday — rocking the Old English D in the bright home whites — taking part in what likely will be the final minor-league minicamp of their careers. First baseman Spencer Torkelson, 22 now and looking leaner
Major League Baseball’s owners and players met over a five hour period on Monday with the owners making two small proposals that hint at room for further movement. MLB increased it’s offer for a pre-arbitration bonus pool from $15 million to $20 million and bumped the number of teams participating in the draft lottery from
Our list of the top 20 Detroit Tigers prospects concludes with a look at one of the best prospects in all of baseball, Riley Greene. For the past month we’ve been offering detailed looks at players in our top 20 prospects. We recently moved into the top five, with pieces on Ty Madden, Jackson Jobe,…
The Tigers have several intriguing relief prospects in their Minor League minicamp, but Zack Hess was a notable omission from the roster that came out last week. There was a good reason: The former LSU reliever turned High-A West Michigan closer underwent Tommy John surgery last month. Hess will miss the entire 2022 season. He
Check in with Tigers highly touted prospects Riley Greene, Spencer Torkelson and Dillon Dingler as they begin their 2022 season at the Tigers Minor League Spring Training Camp.
Ronald Blum | Associated Press Jupiter, Fla. — With perhaps a week left to salvage opening day, union head Tony Clark attended negotiations on Monday for the first time since Major League Baseball’s lockout began, accompanied by New York Mets stars Max Scherzer, Francisco Lindor and Brandon Nimmo. The Cardinals’ Paul Goldschmidt, the Yankees’ Jameson Taillon, the Reds’
LAKELAND, Fla. — One round after another, Spencer Torkelson took batting practice swings at Tigertown on Monday, sending drives toward the fire training facility beyond the practice field fence. But the slugging prospect’s best offering on a tee came in the interview session afterward. Asked if he had done anything fitness-wise in his offseason workouts
Lakeland, Fla. — His absence from the Tigers’ minor league minicamp was noticeable. And now it has been explained. Zack Hess, a 6-6 right-handed reliever the Tigers’ drafted in the seventh round out of LSU in 2019, underwent Tommy John surgery last month. He will miss the 2022 season. Hess, who turns 25 on Friday, made
LAKELAND, Fla. — Click-clack. Click-clack. They came out of the Detroit Tigers building — the future walking toward the back fields at TigerTown. Spencer Torkelson and Riley Greene started out walking together, their spikes clacking off the concrete, toward about 35 fans standing behind a chain-link fence. “Hey guys!” somebody said. TOP PROSPECT: Potential for Jackson Jobe? ‘No.
LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers right-hander Zack Hess underwent Tommy John surgery in late January. The procedure took place in Arlington, Texas. He will miss the entire 2022 season. Hess, a seventh-round pick from LSU in the 2019 draft, pitched for High-A West Michigan and Double-A Erie last season, along with making 10 appearances out of the
When looking at the Detroit Tigers 40-man roster last night in doing a write up on Matt Strahm, it never occurred to me to look back at the 2017 Houston Astros roster. Manager A.J. Hinch used just one left-hander in Tony Sipp out of the bullpen that season.
In celebration of Black History Month throughout February, teams across Minor League Baseball are taking a look back at five of the best Black players to suit up for their club. While some of these standout performers went on to long and illustrious Major League careers, others simply had great In celebration of Black History
The second round of the MLB amateur draft had been a bit of a black hole for the Detroit Tigers until they selected Dillon Dingler with the first pick of the second round in 2020. Looking to go back-to-back, the club selected prep shortstop Izaac Pacheco with the third pick of the second round in
Felecia Evans-Smith wanted her son’s “first day of school” picture — for the last time. “Have somebody take your picture,” she told her son, Dylan Smith, who was also the Detroit Tigers‘ third-round selection in the 2021 MLB draft. So this professional baseball player — who had already signed a $1.1 million contract with the
LAKELAND, Fla. — Notre Dame pitching coach Chuck Ristano thought back to the first time he played catch with Tanner Kohlhepp. Well, it wasn’t really a game of catch. Because Ristano couldn’t keep track of the baseball. “It was the first time I ever played catch with one of our pitchers and whiffed,” said Ristano, in his 12th
Many of the Royals’ best pitching prospects are returning from injury-shortened seasons, yet as MLB.com’s Anne Rogers writes, most of these young arms are back at the club’s minor league camp in good health. The most prominent of these names is Asa Lacy, the fourth overall pick of the 2020 draft and a consensus top-40
When the MLB lockout started back in December, we pumped the brakes on individual free agent pieces for the Detroit Tigers to consider. However, with the negotiations starting up again on Monday, we looked at a few arms that could help either the starting rotation or the bullpen.