Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Clearwater, Fla. – Baseball is an unforgiving game. If there is a hole in your game, it will be exposed and exploited. Over and over and over until you close it. Nobody knows this better than Tigers utility man Niko Goodrum. Sometime in 2019, teams figured out he has a
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Clearwater, Fla. – If you’ve noticed, the lineup AJ Hinch has been rolling out in most of these recent spring games has featured some combination of three switch-hitters at the top of the batting order. Robbie Grossman, Jeimer Candelario and Willi Castro, not always in that order, have been mainstays
The 2021 MLB Draft is creeping ever closer, so we continue our quest to keep Detroit Tigers fans informed about the top talent available. Be sure to check out our college and high school previews. Last week saw some truly outstanding pitching performances, and one frighteningly poor outing. We’ve also seen one college outfielder and…
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press CLEARWATER, Fla. — Outfielder Daz Cameron pointed to his right elbow as he explained what happened a few months earlier in Puerto Rico. The Detroit Tigers prospect, ranked by MLB Pipeline as the No. 7 player in the farm system, went south for the offseason to play in the Puerto Rican
Minor league baseball will be played again in 2021, but the landscape won’t be the same as it was before a COVID-induced shutdown wiped out the 2020 season. The Appalachian League, which had existed as a short-season rookie league since 1957, didn’t survive the recent gutting and restructuring of the minor leagues that was orchestrated…
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — Don’t expect to see Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal back in the minor leagues, surely not if the remainder of his spring training resembles his first two starts. After posting three scoreless innings in a 10-6 loss Thursday to the Toronto Blue Jays at TD Ballpark in Dunedin, manager AJ Hinch believes
Carlos Monarrez | Detroit Free Press There’s an old joke. Two people are eating at a restaurant. One says, “The food here is terrible.” The other replies, “Yes, and the portions are so small.” I thought of that joke Thursday when Major League Baseball announced several rule changes in the minors this season, including eliminating the
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — Julio Teheran and Jose Urena knew there was a group of elite starting pitching prospects knocking on the big-league door when they signed with the Tigers this offseason. And as well as Casey Mize and Tarik Skubal have pitched this spring, you couldn’t blame either of them
LAKELAND, Fla. — Derek Hill would’ve been excused if he had slept in and missed his Friday morning video conference with reporters after all the running he did Thursday afternoon. It’s a shame that the Tigers’ 10-6 loss to the Blue Jays wasn’t televised, because it would’ve been a highlight reel for what Hill can
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Tigers pitchers turned in several strong performances, but the highlight of the day was provided by a spectacular grab in right field by prospect Riley Greene. A late-inning rally wasn’t enough in the end, as the Tigers fell to the Yankees, 4-2.
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — The Detroit Tigers lost to the New York Yankees, 4-2, on Friday at Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium. The Tigers dropped to 6-5 in Grapefruit League play. What happened Right-hander Julio Teheran started for the Tigers and went three innings. His fastball velocity averaged 92 mph and maxed
Shep and Gibby welcome in Tigers shortstop Willi Castro to chat under the awning, presented by Marygrove Awnings. #TigersST
Let’s go under the awning with newly acquired Robbie Grossman. #TigersST | Marygrove Awnings
Last month, I released a Detroit Tigers Starting Pitching Rotation Projection 1.0 right before Spring Training started, and as it we close in on two weeks of spring training action down, the rotation seems to be taking form.
We welcome in Tigers pitcher Matthew Boyd for our Marygrove Awnings interview. He updates us on his offseason and his continuing work with his Kingdom Home organization. #TigersST
LAKELAND, Fla. — The can-opening incident was a light-hearted introduction to Spring Training for Spencer Torkelson. It was never expected to be the most healthy cut he took in camp. This is not the way Torkelson envisioned his first camp unfolding. This is also not the way the Tigers want their top prospect to head
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — The Tigers’ first cuts of the spring came on Friday. Four pitchers were assigned to Triple-A Toledo: Joey Wentz, Alex Faedo, Beau Burrows and Kyle Funkhouser. Wentz and Faedo, both coming back from Tommy John surgeries, are rehabbing and will eventually end up on the injured list. Seven
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — If Tigers center fielder Derek Hill looks different at the plate this spring, it’s because, well he is. Like, completely different. “I’ve just tried to keep it as simple as possible,” said Hill, the Tigers’ first-round pick in 2014 who finally made his big-league debut last season. “I
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — Tigers manager AJ Hinch mentioned it earlier in camp, that he suspected that one day Major League Baseball might step in and legislate shifts out of the game. Well, his suspicions are now a little closer to reality. The league announced Thursday several rules experiments that will take