In the weeks prior to the 2021 MLB amateur draft, University of Texas starting pitcher Ty Madden appeared to be one of the top five pitching prospects available in the whole draft. However, on MLB team boards he was slipping down all the way out of the first round as the draft approached in July.
Tucker Barnhart considers himself an unofficial psychologist. It’s one of the reasons why Barnhart’s yearly routine includes arriving early to spring training. He always shows up by Feb. 1, and often in mid-January, with his family to escape the winter weather in his hometown of Indianapolis and connect with his pitching staff ahead of a new season.
By TC Zencka | January 29, 2022 at 7:15pm CDT The Tigers are one of the teams seen to be on the rise heading into 2022, in no small part because of a cavalcade of promising rotation arms that have begun to establish themselves in the big league rotation. Casey Mize, Matt Manning, and Tarik
Dillon Dingler is already in Lakeland, Florida. The 23-year-old catcher has plenty of work to do. He isn’t supposed to report to minicamp until Feb. 15, ahead of the first pitchers and catchers workout Feb. 16, but he has been active at the Detroit Tigers‘ spring training complex for the past few weeks. For now, only minor-league
The annual Baseball Hall of Fame induction announcement arrived Tuesday, with only David Ortiz earning the necessary 75% of the vote from the Baseball Writers Association of America this year. That means Detroit Tigers fans should expect to see the clip of Ortiz’s dramatic game-tying eighth-inning grand slam for the Boston Red Sox in Game
The calendar is creeping toward February, which means we are mere weeks away from pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training for the Detroit Tigers! What’s that you say? A lockout? It’s true, members of the Detroit Tigers 40-man roster will not be reporting to Lakeland with a lockout in place. But the Tigers are…
With spring training approximately one month from getting underway and the Tigers having done most of their off-season shopping barring any minor post-lockout moves, I thought now is a good time to take a shot at predicting the 2022 Detroit Tigers opening day lineup when they take on the Seattle Mariners in a couple of…
Detroit — This isn’t a story about how things fell apart for Buck Farmer last season. It’s about how he’s putting it all back together. It’s not a story of failure, but of strength, accountability, faith and resiliency. And in that sense, this is a story of survival and success Farmer went into the last season, his
(Editor’s note: This is all fiction. With the lockout and all, Allen wanted to show his respect to Detroit Tigers legends while bringing to attention his love for wrestling. There is no malice behind this piece, rather, just having fun with combining sports entertainment and baseball-Rogelio)
One of the favorite memories of my career is of Jim Leyland, when he was the Detroit Tigers’ manager, conducting a morning interview in his office while lying on his couch, wearing a bathrobe and smoking a cigarette. The only way to provide you with anything close to an accurate visual image of Leyland’s pose
The second of a 3-part series profiling the Tigers top prospects introduces an international man of mystery in Roberto Campos, an 18-year-old slugger from Cuba with a power-packed swing. Plus, a pair of hard throwing pitchers from the 2021 Draft in Dylan Smith and Ty Madden, as well as slugging teenage shortstop, Izaac Pacheco.
All of those graduations will mean that fresh faces will need to replace them on MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 Prospects list. Below, we present a prospect from each organization who could ascend to the Top 100 in 2024. Blue Jays: Gunnar Hoglund, RHP (No. 4)Hoglund has twice been a top-40 Draft pick and could have
It’s been a minute, but Jackson Jobe can remember the last time he pitched to an actual hitter. “Last pitch I threw was May 14,” the 19-year-old right-hander said from his home in Oklahoma in a Wednesday afternoon call with reporters. Jobe’s professional career so far has been limited to bullpen sessions, mound work and
The Tigers announced Thursday that they’ve promoted Triple-A manager Gary Jones to the Major League staff, where he’ll serve as the team’s new first base coach. The promotion comes in the wake of the tragic death of Detroit first base coach Kimera Bartee, passed away at just 49 years of age earlier this offseason due
First and foremost, thank you for everyone who has been checking out the 2nd annual Motor City Detroit Tigers Top 20 prospect list. Each person put out a list of their Top 20 and, thanks to Chris Brown’s magic, that is how our rankings were determined.
DETROIT — Lloyd McClendon could get a chance to manage Spencer Torkelson and Riley Greene after all. Just over a year after McClendon managed Detroit down the stretch of the 2020 season and interviewed for the full-time job, the longtime Tigers coach returns to the organization to play a role in the team’s youth movement.
As you may have read a little while ago, I did a recap on the (in)famous Game 163 from the 2009 season, with the Twins besting the Tigers in 12 innings to capture the American League Central title. The reaction to it, on various media platforms, was, shall we say, mixed. I’d say it was
The Detroit Tigers have shifted gears. Triple-A Toledo manager Gary Jones, hired in early December to lead the Mud Hens, received a promotion Thursday when Tigers manager AJ Hinch added the 61-year-old to his MLB coaching staff as the team’s first base coach, filling Kimera Bartee’s role. Bartee died suddenly from a brain tumor in December at the
Detroit — Just when he thought he got out, they pull him back in. Lloyd McClendon, who has been out of baseball since he finished the 2020 season as the Tigers’ manager after Ron Gardenhire suddenly retired, has been hired to manage the Tigers’ Triple-A affiliate in Toledo. “I am looking forward to returning to Toledo
TOLEDO, Ohio – The Detroit Tigers and Toledo Mud Hens announced today Lloyd McClendon will take over as the 2022 manager of the Tigers’ Triple-A affiliate Toledo Mud Hens, replacing Gary Jones who has joined the Detroit Tigers staff. The 63-year-old is a native of Gary, Indiana and was the TOLEDO, Ohio – The Detroit