The Tigers have made one big rotation splash this winter, signing Eduardo Rodríguez to a five-year, $77MM guarantee. Yet they also non-tendered Matthew Boyd and will be without Spencer Turnbull for most or all of next season due to a July 2021 Tommy John surgery. Boyd, Turnbull and depth options Wily Peralta and José Ureña — each of whom has reached
Longtime major league outfielder Cameron Maybin announced his retirement this evening. The 34-year-old appeared in fifteen major league seasons, suiting up with ten different clubs between 2007-21. He spent the bulk of that time — four seasons apiece — with the Padres and Marlins. “I’ve played this game since I was 4 years old,” Maybin wrote
Former Detroit Tigers first-round pick Cameron Maybin has called it a career after 15 major league seasons. Maybin made the announcement on Twitter. The tenth overall selection in the 2005 MLB draft out of high school, the now 34-year-old Maybin played for ten different teams, including a few go-arounds in the Motor City.
Veteran outfielder Cameron Maybin announced his retirement from Major League Baseball on Monday night. Maybin, 34, made his big league debut with the Tigers on Aug. 17, 2007, before going on to play for 10 teams over a 15-year career. He most recently spent time with the Mets, appearing in nine games in ’21 to
A few days ago, MLBTR’s Anthony Franco looked back on the trade that sent LaMonte Wade Jr. to the Giants. At the time, Wade had a fairly unimpressive track record, but did have a knack for generating walks and limiting strikeouts. Whether that was what piqued the Giants’ interest or not, it worked out for
Something great and unique about the sport of baseball is that nearly every ballpark can be different. The dimensions of the actual diamond are standard, but after that, teams can pretty much design their home as they see fit. They can stretch their center-field wall out 550 feet, they can construct a giant wall in
The Detroit Tigers made it clear this past season that upgrades to positions of need would come this offseason, and they wasted no time in doing just that when they acquired Tucker Barnhart from the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for minor league infielder Nick Quintana only a day after the World Series had ended.
Do you have some things you need to change in your life come January 1st? We should all eat better, work out more, spend more time offline with friends and loved ones, and read more books, presumably. But what about our fair baseball club’s players? What sorts of resolutions should the Detroit Tigers themselves make,
Detroit Stars outfielder “Turkey” Stearnes was inducted into Baseball’s Hall of Fame in 2001 (Photo Credit: Detroit Free Press) Near the end of 2020, Major League Baseball announced that it would now officially recognize seven professional Negro Leagues that operated between 1920-1948 as major leagues. Historians have long considered baseball played in these leagues as
The reunions are getting smaller and smaller, more reflective than celebratory. The 1968 World Series-champion Detroit Tigers lost another of the heroes in 2021, when catcher Bill Freehan, an 11-time All-Star and five-time Gold Glove winner, died Aug. 19 at the age of 79. Freehan had battled Alzheimer’s for several years, and didn’t attend the
The 2021 Detroit Tigers will not be remembered as a team that clapped an enormous amount of home runs by current standards— they finished 24th in the MLB with 179 bombs — but they had many that are worth revisiting. It’s also interesting to note that back in 2012, at the peak of their four-year
Detroit Tigers pitching prospect Alex Faedo, the No. 18 overall pick in the 2017 draft out of Florida, said in October 2020 he thought he was ready for his MLB debut. He had pitched a full season for Double-A Erie in 2019, impressing with a 3.90 ERA with 25 walks and 134 strikeouts across 115⅓ innings in 22
Detroit Tigers outfielder Victor Reyes wants to be a part of something special in Venezuela. The 27-year-old was supposed to play for Caribes de Anzoategui in the Venezuelan Winter League from Dec. 8 until Dec. 22, the end of the regular season, but he has decided to stay active on the roster as his team seeks a championship.
It’s been quite the journey for Joey Wentz. He came to the Detroit Tigers from the Atlanta Braves in a 2019 trade. He made five starts in Double-A Erie as part of a rotation that featured Casey Mize, Tarik Skubal, Matt Manning and Alex Faedo. That team’s manager, former Tigers catcher Mike Rabelo, once said Wentz
Yesterday we published the first half of our Detroit Tigers Top 20 prospects list, and today we finish with prospects 10 through 1. If you missed the first list and/or don’t feel like going back to read it, here’s how the process works: Six MCB contributors created independent lists of their top 25 Detroit Tigers…
With the holiday season in full swing, it’s the perfect time to recognize the best gift every Major League club has ever received. And while the old adage says it’s better to give than to receive, there’s no question that each team and its respective fanbase was grateful to be on the receiving end in
The Detroit Tigers have seen their farm system change pretty dramatically since March, when we published last year’s list. And there have even been some significant changes since we published our updated list in August.
Breakouts are, by definition, unpredictable. Or they’re meant to be, anyways. When the MLB Pipeline team set out to predict prospect breakouts for the 2021 season last January, we didn’t expect to go a full 30-for-30. Indeed, half of the fun around prospect coverage is seeing who can beat expectations and set new, higher ones
It has now been more than five months since the Detroit Tigers took Oklahoma high-school pitcher Jackson Jobe with the third overall pick in the 2021 MLB Draft. Jobe didn’t throw a professional pitch after signing, and he didn’t attend the Instructional League this fall.
I always begin any Hall of Fame discussion with a reminder that long-time Tigers second basemen Lou Whitaker has the highest career Wins Above Replacement among 20th Century position players not in the Hall and not connected to steroids or gambling. Whitaker will likely get another shot in the future, but was not on any of