Our prospects lists are filled with athletically gifted players who have tremendous power, speed and arm strength. But who are the toolsiest of them all? Below, we identify the best athlete in each farm system. As usual, outfielders dominate the list, with 17 of the 30 players highlighted spending the majority of their time at
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/
Orlando, Fla. — Commissioner Rob Manfred, speaking Thursday after concluding 2½ days of meetings with owners of all 30 Major League Baseball teams, remains optimistic the 2022 season will start on time and did not rule out the possibility of spring training opening as scheduled next week — though the latter seems a longshot. “The status of spring training
After many years of waiting, and having to watch as his old teammate and his former double-play partner had their numbers immortalized, Lou Whitaker finally gets to see his number retired by the Detroit Tigers.
Today we look at promising young outfielder Roberto Campos, who ranks ninth on our list of Detroit Tigers prospects. For the past month we’ve been offering detailed looks at some of the players in our top 20 prospects. Most recently we wrote about infielders Colt Keith, Izaac Pacheco, and Gage Workman, but today we focus…
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Heads up! Whitecaps to release 2022 promotional schedule, 7 Days of Deals, and ticket-on sale date Comstock Park, MI –Thursday, February 10, 2022 — Like the few days before Christmas or a loud New Year’s Eve countdown, baseball fans in West Michigan are ready to start celebrating a new Whitecaps Heads up! Whitecaps to release
There are few bigger advocates for minor-league baseball players than Emily Waldon. Back in the spring of 2019, Waldon, then writing for The Athletic, put one of the brightest spotlights on the financial inequities facing minor-leaguers, under the headline, “I can’t afford to play this game.” Within the month, the Toronto Blue Jays responded to
Orlando, Fla. — Major League Baseball and its locked-out players agreed to resume negotiations Saturday after an 11-day break. The session in New York will follow three days of owners’ meetings in Orlando that end Thursday and three days of players’ association sessions in Arizona and Florida. It will be just the fifth negotiating session
A version of this story was originally published in May 2020. With well over 100 years of history, even the most die-hard, obsessive, has-a-shrine-to-the-game-hidden-in-the-closet type baseball fan can’t know everything. So, here, below, is one interesting fact about each team that you may not know. Forget the giant halo’d ‘A’ that sits in the parking
The Detroit Tigers have signed free-agent infielder Jack Lopez to a minor-league contract, a source told the Free Press on Wednesday. He will report to minicamp in Lakeland, Florida, around Feb. 21. Lopez likely will begin the 2022 season with Triple-A Toledo. The 29-year-old, selected by the Kansas City Royals in the 16th round of the
The Tigers have agreed to a minor league contract with free-agent infielder Jack Lopez, as first reported by former big league infielder Carlos Baerga (on Instagram). Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press tweets that Lopez has signed a deal and will head to the Tigers’ spring facility in Lakeland, Fla. for minicamp. The 29-year-old
Amid all the spots for snacks, booze and cars, three Detroit sports legends have teamed up for a brief advertisement that will air locally during Sunday’s Super Bowl. Lions legend Barry Sanders, former Tigers player and current broadcaster Kirk Gibson and Red Wings great Darren McCarty have filmed a 30-second spot for the the Sam Bernstein
Lakeland, Fla. — It’s not that Lloyd McClendon hadn’t thought about getting back in the game. Good lord, the game has been his life since he starred in the Little League World Series at the age of 12. Fifty of his 63 years on this earth have been centered around baseball, give or take a few
The state of Michigan, as a collective for the history of Black players, has stories that go back into the late 1800s, starting with University of Michigan graduate Moses Fleetwood Walker who was the first African-American to play in a professional league. The Page Fence Giants, who played in Adrian, Michigan, were one of the…
The Detroit Tigers were one of the more active teams before the lockout, but they will need to continue that theme following the MLB lockout if they want to achieve their goal of having a winning club in 2022.
Lou Whitaker can’t find the words to describe his feelings about seeing his #1 go on the Comerica Park wall, so teammates Dan Petry, Lance Parrish and Alan Trammell express what millions of Tigers fans are feeling.
Finally, the date is set for Lou Whitaker. The Detroit Tigers will retire Whitaker’s No. 1 jersey on Aug. 6, in a pregame ceremony before facing the Tampa Bay Rays at Comerica Park, the team announced Tuesday. Retiring Whitaker’s number was originally announced in December 2019. A ceremony was slated for the 2020 season, but the Tigers postponed the ceremony
DETROIT — The wait to immortalize Lou Whitaker’s No. 1 finally ends this summer. The Tigers announced on Tuesday that Whitaker’s jersey number will be retired in a ceremony at Comerica Park on Saturday, Aug. 6, prior to their 6:10 p.m. ET game against the Rays. It’s an event that has required an abundance of
Finally, the date is set for Lou Whitaker. The Detroit Tigers will retire Whitaker’s No. 1 jersey on Aug. 6, in a pregame ceremony before facing the Tampa Bay Rays at Comerica Park, the team announced Tuesday. Whitaker’s number was originally retired in December 2019. A ceremony was slated for the 2020 season, but the Tigers postponed the ceremony because