LAKELAND, Fla. — Pitchers and catchers from the Detroit Tigers flooded into the team’s spring training facility Tuesday to complete their physicals ahead of Wednesday’s first workout. All major league players were absent. Spring training is officially delayed for players on the 40-man roster because of MLB’s lockout, which began Dec. 2 after the expiration of the
The MLB owners’ lockout of the players continued into its 71st day Friday with few major changes in the two sides’ proposals. The MLB Players Association, led by ex-Detroit Tiger Tony Clark, is in search of, among other things, higher pay for young players, a higher minimum salary, an end to service time manipulation and
Schuyler Dixon | Associated Press Fort Worth, Texas — Four major league players testified Tuesday that they received oxycodone pills from a former Los Angeles Angels employee accused of providing Tyler Skaggs the drugs that led to the pitcher’s overdose death. Pitchers Matt Harvey, Mike Morin and Cam Bedrosian and first baseman C.J. Cron all took
For the past month we’ve been offering detailed looks at all the Detroit Tigers prospects we ranked in our top 20 list. Most recently we wrote about infielder Ryan Kreidler and pitchers Joey Wentz and Ty Madden, but now we focus on the the highest ranked pitching prospect in the system, Jackson Jobe.
Lakeland, Fla. — If you just look at the numbers, you might question why the Tigers bothered to take right-handed pitcher Nick Kuzia in the minor league Rule 5 draft last December. Signed by the San Diego Padres as an undrafted free agent out of UMass-Lowell in 2017, he’s banged around as kind of an organizational
To celebrate Black History Month, MLB Vault will take a look back at some former MVPs. Don’t forget to subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/MLBClassics Follow us elsewhere too: Twitter: https://twitter.com/MLB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mlb/ & https://www.instagram.com/mlbvault/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mlb TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/share/user/656… Visit our site for all baseball news, stats and scores! https://www.mlb.com/
Willie McCovey was one of the most feared hitters EVER. To celebrate Black History Month, MLB Vault will take a look back at some former MVPs. Don’t forget to subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/MLBClassics Follow us elsewhere too: Twitter: https://twitter.com/MLB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mlb/ & https://www.instagram.com/mlbvault/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mlb TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/share/user/656… Visit our site for all baseball news, stats and scores!
The SeaWolves announced today that the team will host three Game Day Crew hiring events. The team is seeking outgoing, enthusiastic individuals (ages 16 & up) to fill a variety of game day positions for the 2022 baseball season. The hiring events will take place in the UPMC Park Stadium The SeaWolves announced today that
If there is anything we have learned about the Detroit Tigers fanbase across the rebuild, it’s that the fans are unbelievably loyal to their team. They watched their club limp to last-place finishes and 95+ loss seasons from 2017-2019 and likely would have had another in 2020 had it not been for a pandemic-shortened year.
A few words about this consarned MLB lockout and its ruination of what should have been a happy week of baseball’s-back chatter from Lakeland, Florida, and other sunny venues where spring training was supposed to begin: Deal with it. Truly, deal with it. Patiently. Because two realities were brewing heading into 2022. 1. This new
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The Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Tigers and Comerica Bank are proud to continue the second year of the Game Changers series as the organizations continue to celebrate Black History Month. This week’s Game Changers honoree is Jacqueline Moore, who is the founder of the northwest Detroit-based non-profit organization, SDM2. SDM2 provides a variety of academic
With the minor league mini camp starting on Wednesday, we are getting close to wrapping up the best prospects in the Detroit Tigers system. Number six was Ryan Kreidler, the third member of an impressive power trio of himself, Spencer Torkelson and Riley Greene. Coming in at number 5, just like our friends over at…
LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers prospect Cristian Santana spent his offseason in the Dominican Republic working out with Juan Soto. Yes, that Juan Soto, the 2021 National League runner-up for MVP. “I want to be like him someday,” Santana said Friday in his first interview with an American reporter. “He is the best hitter in Major League
The Tigers and Cubs were going in polar opposite directions in 2017. Detroit was headed towards a last place finish that would kick off the massive rebuild from which they’re only now emerging. Chicago was trying to defend their drought-breaking World Series title, eyeing another division championship as part of what looked to be a
Schuyler Dixon | Associated Press Fort Worth, Texas — A former Los Angeles Angels employee accused of providing the opioids that contributed to Tyler Skaggs’ overdose death told a colleague he watched the Angels pitcher do drugs the night before he was found dead in a suburban Dallas hotel room, according to testimony Monday. Eric Prescott
Lakeland, Fla. — And he thought he’d been laboring in relative anonymity all those years. Utility infielder Jack Lopez sat in the empty home dugout at Fenway Park last September. He’d just been called up to the big leagues, his first call-up after 10 seasons grinding through the minor leagues in three different systems. As chronicled
LAKELAND, Fla. — The Detroit Tigers are opening minor-league minicamp this week at the team’s spring training facility. The first pitchers and catchers workout is scheduled for Wednesday in Lakeland, Florida, followed by the first full-squad workout Feb. 21. Players not included on the Tigers’ 40-man roster are permitted to participate in minicamp. Major league players, though, cannot
At Motor City Bengals, we’re counting down our best prospects in the Detroit Tigers system. Our seventh-ranked prospect was Joey Wentz, which you can find here. That brings us to one of the more polarizing players in the entire system: Ryan Kreidler.
LAKELAND, Fla. — The Arizona Fall League was a test for Detroit Tigers right-hander Garrett Hill, a 26th-round selection in 2018 out of San Diego State after two years at Santa Rosa Junior College. The former No. 765 overall pick, now a 26-year-old, wanted to know if he belonged with baseball’s best prospects. Hill posted a 1.98 ERA