Detroit Tigers outfielder Victor Reyes is four wins from becoming a champion for Caribes de Anzoategui in the Venezuelan Winter League. His team faces Navegantes del Magallanes in the best-of-seven championship series, which begins Tuesday. If seven games are needed, the series will conclude Jan. 25. To get here, five teams played 16 games in the round-robin semifinals. The results: Caribes
By TC Zencka | January 17, 2022 at 10:44am CDT Left-handed pitcher Francisco Liriano has announced his retirement, agent Mike Maulini tells Robert Murray of FanSided. Liriano debuted in 2005 with the Twins as a 21-year-old, and he last toed the rubber with the Pirates in 2019. All in all, Liriano appeared in 14 big-league
Baseball is fun for so many reasons. One of them that Detroit Tigers and any baseball fan can appreciate is the limitless phrases that use food in baseball wordplay. From “can of corn” to a “snowcone catch”, it has been a part of the baseball lexicon for years.
Hitting a baseball is a very difficult task. Switch hitting is an even harder task to accomplish. Two different swings to tune up, change, and try to grow. When done well it eliminates some of the difficulties that come when facing same handed pitchers. Orioles’ outfielder Cedric Mullins was a switch hitter, but ditched that
In 2019, the Detroit Tigers finished the season with a record of 47-114, easily the worst in the league that year. The silver lining in a season that bad is receiving the first overall selection in the next year’s draft. The Tigers used the first overall pick in the 2020 draft on Spencer Torkelson, a
I love this game. This may seem strange because I’ve been a Tiger fan all my life, and the Tigers lost this game to a hated division rival. This bounced Detroit out of the playoffs in 2009, and while the Tigers probably would’ve faced a similar fate the Twins did in the Division Series against
Clayton Campbell Jr. wants to become the first New Zealand-born player to make his MLB debut. “I’m going to be that first one,” Campbell said Dec. 21 from his home near Sydney, Australia, where he has lived since 2009. The Detroit Tigers signed Campbell on Dec. 10 for a $125,000 bonus as an international free agent.
First baseman Edgar Wesley’s 213 OPS+ in 1925 was the best in Detroit history. (Photo credit: Seamheads.com) In recent posts, I have integrated Detroit Stars players into the all-time Detroit major league position lists: shortstops center fielders This week, I am looking at first basemen. Before Negro League data was so conveniently available at Seamheads.com, I
The Detroit Tigers made their big splash in 2022 international signing period, which began Saturday, by signing 16-year-old Venezuelan shortstop Javier Osorio. Osorio, who turns 17 in late March, signed for a $2.2 million bonus, a source with knowledge of the situation told the Free Press. The right-handed hitter ranks No. 13 on MLB Pipeline’s top 50 international
Simply put: The Tigers are on the rise. They are going to be a popular pick to jump into the field of contenders in 2022 – and for good reason. Though a 77-85 record might not look like a team on the rise, they started the year with an 8-19 month of April and looked
Major League Baseball remains at a standstill, but the Detroit Tigers did add five talented youngsters to the organization on Saturday. Traditionally, international signing day, the first day of the international signing period for the year, was set in July, but the pandemic bumped it to January, where it remains for the time being. There
Detroit – The Tigers, as was previously reported, opened Major League Baseball’s international signing period by inking a pair of 17-year-old Venezuelan-born shortstops. According to ESPN’s Jesse Sanchez, the Tigers gave signing bonuses to Javier Osorio ($2.2 million) and Samuel Gil ($1.2 million). Osorio, 6-0, 172 pounds, is ranked No. 10 by Baseball America and
The Tigers have emerged as one of the most active teams on the international market in recent years, and that trend has continued into 2022. According to industry sources, the club has agreed to a $2.2 million deal with 6-foot-2 shortstop Javier Osorio, who ranks No. 13 on MLB.com’s Top 50 International Prospects list. Detroit
Manuel Sequera is a name to know. The Detroit Tigers identified Sequera, from Barquisimeto, Venezuela, as a high-potential player in the 2019 international class and signed him July 2, the first day of that year’s signing period, for a $125,000 bonus. “I’m proud to play for the Tigers,” Sequera said Friday, with his agent, Jose Luis Montero, translating. READY
A few more minor league signings to supplement the recent flurry of minor league deals around the league… The Tigers are bringing back right-handed pitcher Ricardo Pinto after he spent all of the 2021 season in Detroit’s minor league ranks. Pinto was previously a prospect of some note, pitching in the 2016 Futures Game in the Phillies organization before
Detroit — Daniel Norris and a friend were paddling out on their boards, one of those inevitable and at times interminable lulls that surfers often use for deep introspection. This was at the end of November. Norris, a little battered but not in any way broken by what had been a season from hell — a
We put together the Top 20 after a few of the contributors sent in their Top 20 and Chris Brown did the math and that’s how we came up with our top 20 prospects in the Detroit Tigers system. You can see the players ranked 11-20 here, the top ten here, and five more prospects who just missed…
Many players have suited up for the Detroit Tigers. All-stars, future Hall of Famers, and plenty of prospects have played in the Motor City. But there have also been many forgotten players during the years. Today, let’s look back at some Detroit Tigers from the 2010s you may have forgotten.
That most essential — and most difficult —position MLB teams seek to fill, shortstop, is where the Tigers are spending much of their 2022 international bonus pool, as reported by Baseball America. The Tigers are expected to soon sign two teen shortstops listed among Baseball America’s top 21 prospects. Saturday is the first day international amateurs
Welcome to the TigerDome? It isn’t as farfetched as you might imagine. Once upon a time, there were whispers of a new Tiger Stadium that would have featured a dome. One eagle-eyed history buff shared the throwback newspaper article on Twitter and it got us wondering about this would-be TigerDome. Anyone who lived in Detroit