Jeff Seidel | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — Someone from the adoption agency called Renee Lange at work. “It was 2:30 in the afternoon,” she said. “And they said, ‘This girl had a baby yesterday. Get to the hospital between 6 and 6:15. She’s got this short window to be there.’” It was Oct. 3, 1995. Her
By TC Zencka | March 13, 2021 at 3:45pm CDT Not only is veteran Julio Teheran hitting as high as 94 mph on the radar gun, but he got three strikeouts on his slider in his most-recent outing, writes Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press. Said Teheran, “My slider is the best it’s been in
It was an afternoon of firsts for a pair of first-round selections on Saturday. Tigers prospect Spencer Torkelson, the No. 1 overall pick in last year’s Draft and MLB’s No. 3 prospect, got off the schneid with his first hit of the spring. He was in an 0-for-15 skid with nine strikeouts entering action on
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Clearwater, Fla. — Stuff gets in your head. The book on Casey Mize, since his days at Auburn, is that he’s a strike-thrower. Not only that, he can pitch with command within the strike zone. It’s as much a part of his pitching DNA as his splitter. Then he comes
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Daz Cameron hears his father preaching patience. Mike Cameron should know; he dealt with plenty of injuries during his 17-year Major League career. But few could use a healthy break like the Tigers’ prospect. The younger Cameron spent much of Summer Camp being treated in a Detroit hospital for COVID-19, shortening his
CLEARWATER, Fla. — The look from Casey Mize as his 0-2 pitch to Bryce Harper headed toward the right-field berm summed up his emotions Saturday. His head dropped before the two-run homer did. It was Mize’s hardest pitch of his outing, a 96.6 mph fastball according to Statcast. But it was over the plate to
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press CLEARWATER, Fla. — The Detroit Tigers lost to the Philadelphia Phillies, 9-3, on Saturday at BayCare Ballpark. The Tigers dropped to 6-6 in Grapefruit League play. What happened Right-hander Casey Mize — the No. 1 overall pick in the 2018 draft — started and couldn’t make it through three innings. He allowed six
The Philadelphia Phillies took down the Detroit Tigers 9-3 on Saturday, but the results for individual players trying to make the final 26 man roster are all that matter. And as those roster decisions draw near, the overall picture of the 2021 starting roster is starting to take shape. We’ll get the bad news out
The 2020 first-overall selection for the Detroit Tigers has gone hitless in spring training thus far. In spring training, fans of all 30 MLB teams look forward to not only see the regular faces get ready for the upcoming season, but also the top-tier prospects that get some work in before being sent to the…
Johan Santana was one of the best pitchers of his generation. As we celebrate his 42nd birthday, we look back at some of his best outings, including his 17-strikeout performance with the Twins and his no-hitter with the Mets! Don’t forget to subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/MLBClassics Follow us elsewhere too: Twitter: https://twitter.com/MLB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mlb/ & https://www.instagram.com/mlbvault/ Facebook:
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press CLEARWATER, Fla. — Right-hander Julio Teheran looks like a pitcher reborn. His fastball velocity averaged 92 mph in his three innings for the Detroit Tigers on Friday, and he maxed out at 93.4 mph. The 30-year-old recorded 10 swings-and-misses, including five with his slider and three with his two-seam fastball. All
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