Lansing — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration will allow crowds of up to 20% of capacity limits at outdoor stadiums and will impose new testing requirements for youth sports. The updated order, which was released Friday morning, means that the Detroit Tigers can accommodate more than 8,200 fans for its April 1 home opener and succeeding games,
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The MLB All-Star Game will be held on Tuesday, July 13 down in Atlanta. For the Detroit Tigers, it has been a series of solo representations in the Midsummer Classic the last few seasons. Here’s the recent Tigers who have appeared:
We’re now two weeks away from Opening Day at Comerica Park, meaning we’re now at a point where questions gravitate towards the Opening Day roster. Not surprisingly, a lot of those questions revolve around Rule 5 pick Akil Baddoo and his bid to make the Tigers outfield. If Baddoo makes the team, which looks like
Lakeland, Fla. — Back in mid-February, before spring training got rolling, AJ Hinch looked over his roster and frankly didn’t see a lot of tough decisions ahead. “I could name the team right now,” he said. “Something would have to really surprise us.” Well, surprise! Rule 5 outfielder Akil Baddoo has been a marvel — slashing
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CLEARWATER, Fla. — Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal’s bread and butter is his four-seam fastball. It sits around 95 mph but reaches the upper-90s, and when he executes up in the strike zone, he seems unstoppable. But when a pitcher doesn’t have his best stuff he must adjust. The ability to do so is often
By Mark Polishuk | March 17, 2021 at 1:36pm CDT Bobby Witt Jr. has been one of the stars of Spring Training, as the highly-touted prospect has wowed teammates and observers at the Royals’ camp. As a result, Dayton Moore is “very much open-minded of him being on this team as we break this camp,”
Come month’s end, FSD will be MIA. Fox Sports Detroit will officially be rebranded as Bally Sports Detroit on March 31, the final step in Disney’s sell-off of 19 regional sports networks after acquiring them from Fox in March 2019. The U.S. Justice Department ordered the regional sports networks to be sold, to avoid monopoly
Marlins prospect Jazz Chisholm and Red Sox prospect Bobby Dalbec could each add some power to a big league lineup during the regular season this year, but why wait? On Wednesday, Chisholm slugged his second homer of Spring Training, and Dalbec belted his second grand slam. Chisholm, the No. 66 overall prospect with 55-grade pop,
Lakeland, Fla. – Tigers lefty Tarik Skubal and Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm have never faced each other in a big-league game, but they sure have some history. Both drafted in 2018 – Bohm in round one, Skubal in round nine – they’ve gone at each other in rookie ball in the Gulf Coast League,
By Connor Byrne | March 17, 2021 at 4:38pm CDT Orioles manager Brandon Hyde issued a fairly encouraging update on right-hander Felix Hernandez, who left his outing Tuesday with discomfort in his pitching elbow. Hyde told Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com and other reporters that the issue is “just bothering him a little bit right now,”
So long, Fox Sports Detroit. Well, so long to that name, at least. Fox Sports Detroit, home to Detroit Pistons, Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Tigers and other local sports coverage, will be known as Bally Sports Detroit starting March 31 — the day before the Tigers’ Opening Day telecast. The deal has long been in the works but was recently confirmed by the network’s
One pitch after another, Tarik Skubal kept coming after Bryce Harper. Only one of them was a fastball. Skubal was trying to strand runners at second and third base Wednesday and find a way out of a third-inning jam he created with back-to-back walks to open the frame. Harper was trying to stay alive in
CLEARWATER, Fla. — The Detroit Tigers lost to the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-0, on Wednesday at BayCare Ballpark, falling to 7-9 in Grapefruit League play. What happened Left-hander Tarik Skubal started and went three scoreless innings. He allowed one hit and three walks — with six strikeouts — across his 70 pitches (38 strikes). This spring, Skubal has
Lakeland, Fla. — AJ Hinch was talking about the competition among left-handed relievers for the final one or two spots in his bullpen. This was Tuesday after Derek Holland had pitched so well in a spring loss to the Yankees. And, out of nowhere, he declared, “The only one guaranteed (a spot) is Daniel Norris.”
The Detroit Tigers are looking to exit their years-long rebuild. To do so, some among the group of top prospects will need to leave their prospect status behind and emerge as quality big league players. Tarik Skubal, the number 3 prospect in the system per MCB, is in a position to be the first among…
Derek Holland was ready to inherit a jam in the middle of an inning in Tuesday’s 7-4 loss to the Yankees. Pitching coach Chris Fetter had warned Tigers relievers that their appearances would start feeling more like game situations. He was not expecting bases loaded and nobody out. It wasn’t entirely by design. Michael Fulmer
Here are the 2021 guaranteed-to-be-right-as-long-as-you-don’t-check-back-a-year-from-now hitting sleepers, as comprised by a combination of “interesting analytical data” and “gut feel,” which is really all you can do in these cases. These players haven’t yet had full-season breakouts, and a glimpse at surface-level stats may or may not cause them to be that interesting. We think they’re