Hear it straight from the players’ mouths, Opening Day is a big deal. Miguel Cabrera, Matthew Boyd, and JaCoby Jones each bring a vet’s perspective, but young guys like Willi Castro and Grayson Greiner know there’s plenty of reasons to be excited heading into the 2021 season.
When the Detroit Tigers hired AJ Hinch as manager in late October, the future plans became undeniably clear. You don’t hire a former World Series champion to start from scratch. This isn’t 2017, when the Tigers succumbed to the rebuilding process by trading away Justin Verlander, Justin Upton, J.D. Martinez, Alex Avila and Justin Wilson. So far,
Our Slack channel has provided a place to work out ideas and opinions about the Detroit Tigers. Today’s question in our channel was I asked our contributors their thoughts about the upcoming 2021 season and give us their “hot take predictions” on where Detroit is heading in 2021.
Lakeland, Florida – When we all have been staring too many times at masked faces the past 12 months, it was soothing to look across a Lakeland baseball field in March, 2021. Not as inspiring was studying a particular sector of the Tigers’ regular lineup. The outfield. Robbie Grossman. JaCoby Jones. Victor Reyes. On some
Well it’s been quite a year, folks. We don’t know about you, but 2020 and early 2021 have sorely tested our ability to predict what’s going to happen next, and we’ve been humbled in the process. Usually, we just have our bad baseball predictions to humble us. 2020 wasn’t our worst year in terms of
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The Detroit Tigers are approaching the point in their rebuild where identifying the key contributors to the next successful era of Tigers baseball is of paramount importance. It has become very trendy in Major League Baseball (I’m looking at you White Sox) to sign young players to extensions to create cost certainty and hopefully generate…
By Steve Adams and Anthony Franco | March 30, 2021 at 10:38pm CDT The Tigers will open the season with Miguel Cabrera lined up at first base, manager A.J. Hinch told reporters this morning (Twitter link via Jason Beck of MLB.com). “I think he gives us the best chance to win at first base,” Hinch
Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers GM Al Avila: ‘From Day 1, we emphasized winning’ Detroit Tigers general manager Al Avila discusses Tuesday, March 30, 2021, the progress he saw from his team in spring training. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press For the first time since 2019, Detroit Tigers fans — if
The Detroit Tigers are like an Abbott and Costello routine come to life… Me: Who’s on first? Tigers manager AJ Hinch: Everybody. Me: Everybody? Hinch: Yes, everybody. Me: At first? Hinch: Right. [ Miguel Cabrera will start at first base on Opening Day ] Me: Let’s start over. Let’s say Castro is at shortstop. He gets
Detroit — For general manager Al Avila, it must feel a little bit like coming to the end of a long, dark tunnel and seeing, at last, some light. Thursday will be Avila’s 20th Opening Day with the Tigers and his sixth as the general manager. But it might well be the first one in
No one can see the future, not even those guys on Shark Tank. But that didn’t stop some of us at the Free Press from peering into the gloom to try and figure out what’s in store for the Detroit Tigers during the 2021 season. Five Free Press sports writers — Evan Petzold, Carlos Monarrez,
The last time a player wearing a Tigers uniform did it was on a Tuesday night in September 1974, at Baltimore, where a crowd that might or might not have been as large as the 11,492 listed watched a game between Detroit and the Baltimore Orioles. Leading off the Tigers’ fourth, Al Kaline stroked a
Last year, we saw Albert Pujols tie and then pass Willie Mays for fifth-most home runs all-time and Mike Trout reach 300 career home runs to become the Angels’ all-time leader, among various career milestones. With each new baseball season, there are always more milestones to look out for — and 2021 is no exception.
These are the numbers that will sustain us. This year’s Spring Training meant the return of prospect statistics that felt even more important following the lost 2020 Minor League season. Through Statcast measurements, some of the game’s best young talents have put up figures that have wowed fans and evaluators alike once again. Now that
Detroit — As the Tigers begin their 2021 season, here are some intriguing storylines we will be following. The second wave One of the persistent and, frankly, unanswerable questions every team in baseball faces this season is how to govern the workloads of pitchers, especially starting pitchers, coming off a pandemic-shortened 2020 season. The Tigers have two rookies
Before you click away and leave an angry comment about clickbait, keep in mind where I am coming from. According to FanGraphs 2021 Power Rankings, the Detroit Tigers are projected to have the worst bullpen in all of baseball with a total fWAR of 1.1. But do they have a case for their projections? Let’s…
Cleveland heads into the season looking to lean on its stars to keep its window of contention open for another run at the postseason. The Tigers return to Motown with a new manager looking for a fresh start and an influx of young talent looking to turn the corner on their rebuild and begin the
Lakeland, Florida – Goodbye, spring camp. When the Tigers reconvene at TigerTown in 2022 they pray all the issues and inconveniences that haunted them the past year will be tucked into a pandemic’s history. No more COVID-19 masks. No more puny, socially distanced crowds at Publix Field. No more rules against stopping by a restaurant
The sound off the bat was loud, the volume that Spencer Torkelson is expected to make when he connects with a pitch. It carried toward the berm in left-center field at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Fla., an estimated 409-foot drive according to Statcast, before Rays center fielder Miles Mastrobuoni caught it on the warning