Things took a bit of a downward turn for the Tigers in 1906, and while they weren’t the worst team in the American League, they struggled with injury as well as plenty of internal strife thanks to manager Bill Armour. While the club ended the season with a sub-.500 record. Never fear, though, things were
Detroit — A couple of weeks ago I wrote an analysis piece you may have read in which I posited that the bullpen might be one of the Tigers’ strengths heading into spring training, and that it didn’t need any free-agent bolstering. With Gregory Soto, Michael Fulmer and Jose Cisnero coming off strong seasons, the back end
Jackson Jobe is ready to get started. Last year’s No. 3 overall pick visited the Detroit Tigers‘ spring training facility for six weeks after the July draft, throwing bullpens while he was prohibited from facing live hitters. He roomed with his best friend — and the Tigers’ second-round pick — Izaac Pacheco. The 19-year-old prospects plan to climb the organization’s hierarchy together. Jobe, a right-handed
Still just a teenager, Jackson Jobe already boasts a major league caliber slider, and he has a major league attitude to go with it. The #3 overall pick in the 2021 MLB Draft is fired up as he approaches his first spring training as a professional.
Before Jim Leyland joined the Detroit Tigers for eight years at the end of his managerial career, he managed 11 seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates, two for the Florida Marlins and one for the Colorado Rockies. In Pittsburgh, Leyland met Barry Bonds, who rose to stardom with the Pirates over his first seven seasons (1986-92). “You can make a
Most of us fell in love with baseball as a child. That’s when our imaginations were the most fertile, when we could easily picture ourselves standing on the mound in the bottom of the ninth or up at the plate with the bases loaded and the World Series on our shoulders. So, it shouldn’t be
Detroit — You almost feel bad for the first guy who steps into the batter’s box against Jackson Jobe. You remember Jackson Jobe, right? Tall, lanky right-hander from Oklahoma City the Tigers took with the third overall pick in last summer’s draft? They paid him a $6.9 million signing bonus and sent him to Lakeland for
Jim Leyland will never forget the Tigers’ Winter Caravan of 2012, but not for the frigid Michigan weather. While the Tigers were building enthusiasm for their upcoming defense of their 2011 American League Central title, Leyland worried about the roster. Detroit had just lost Victor Martinez to a season-ending left knee injury. Leyland had asked
The staff at Motor City Bengals put together their own Detroit Tigers prospect ranking independent of one another. Co-site experts Rogelio Castillo and Chris Brown aggregated that info and used the averages to come up with the site’s Top 20.
Count Jim Leyland among the large contingent of baseball fans who were disappointed in the Baseball Hall of Fame voting results revealed Tuesday night. Barry Bonds, in his 10th and final year on the writers’ ballot, didn’t get elected — the slugger’s widely accepted suspicion of steroid use again trumping the indisputable argument that he is
The staff at Motor City Bengals put together their own Detroit Tigers prospect ranking independent of one another. Co-site experts Rogelio Castillo and Chris Brown aggregated that info and used the averages to come up with the site’s Top 20.
As calls for an automated strike zone have grown louder among Major League Baseball fans in recent years, the league has responded by testing just such a system in preparation for its eventual implementation at the major league level. The experiment began with a partnership with the Atlantic League, an independent ball league, making their
Alabama pitcher Dylan Smith throws against Florida during the SEC Tournament. [Staff Photo/Gary Cosby Jr.] Sec Tournament Alabama Vs Florida Detroit Tigers Top 20 Prospects: No.15 Beau Brieske by Gavin Kozlo
Detroit Tigers outfielder Victor Reyes played some of his best baseball in the Venezuelan Winter League championship series. The 27-year-old, competing for Caribes de Anzoategui, reached the best-of-seven final round and faced Navegantes del Magallanes. The teams met for Game 7 on Tuesday at Estadio Alfonso Carrasquel in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. Reyes’ team lost,
If I told you there was a situation in baseball where no one could agree on how things should be handled, everyone was constantly mad about it, no one felt justly rewarded, and every participant had opinions on how to improve things, you’d probably think I was talking about the MLB/MLBPA labor dispute. You’re not
After two consecutive days of negotiations- a two hour meeting on Monday when players made proposals and another hour on Tuesday when the owners countered- the good news is that at least the two sides are talking. That’s something that didn’t happen for 43 days following the owners’ lockout imposed on December 2, 2021. In
While slugger Gary Sheffield received 160 votes in his eighth year of eligibility for the Baseball Hall of Fame, other former Tigers remain well out of consideration for induction to Cooperstown. No ex-Tiger received the 75 percent share of votes needed for induction, though Sheffield remains by far the closest among voting by members of
Detroit Tigers fans and various prospect writers have not seen right-hander Alex Faedo pitch in quite sometime. Last season, we had him ranked number 13 overall and most recently, Michael looked at his long-term future with the ballclub.
By Ronald Blum | Associated Press Major League Baseball withdrew its plan for more limited salary arbitration on Tuesday, a day after the union withdrew its demand for greater free agent eligibility. In the second straight day of talks aimed at an agreement to end a lockout that started Dec. 2, clubs also accepted the union’s
The Detroit Tigers signed right-handed reliever Gerson Moreno as a teenager out of the Dominican Republic in 2012. Moreno, now 26, became a minor-league free agent in November, but less than three months later, the Tigers re-signed him. His minor-league contract with the Tigers became official Monday, according to the team’s transaction page. The Tigers assigned Moreno to