The Tigers added to their pitching depth Thursday by agreeing to terms with veteran reliever Wily Peralta to a Minor League contract with an invite to Major League Spring Training, according to a source. The 31-year-old Peralta will make $1.5 million if he makes the Major League roster, with another $300,000 possible in incentives, according
Detroit Tigers outfielder JaCoby Jones should have plenty of points racked up on Training Table Rewards Players Card. Two broken hands. A scary hit by pitch in the jaw. Various minor ailments including strains to a hamstring, shoulder, and oblique. In between there has been some stretches of an exciting baseball player, along with many…
Buck Farmer’s hair, from the chia beard in the front to the party mullet in the back, is the image of a rebellious reliever from yesteryear, like he could’ve brawled with a slugger back in the day. So maybe it was fitting that Farmer was called into the manager’s office after one day of Spring
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — It can’t be right. Buck Farmer is entering his eighth big-league season with the Tigers? It seems like just yesterday he was jumping four levels of the farm system and making his big-league debut for the last Tigers playoff team in 2014. “It is kind of mind-boggling
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — Manager AJ Hinch hasn’t seen every member of the Detroit Tigers’ bullpen throw yet, considering Thursday’s pitcher-catcher workouts included the second of three groups of arms. But he was willing to talk about the construction of his staff on the second day of spring training. Plenty needs to
The weather has been cold and snowy for weeks in Michigan, and people are stuck inside. But just as the winter doldrums seem unending, the Tigers’ annual trek to Florida for Spring Training is here to get us through it. Pitchers and catchers have reported to Tigertown in Lakeland, Fla., and the full squad is
As the Bless You Boys staff prepares to dive deeper into the prospects on our top 30 prospect list, there are numerous prospects debated for the final few spots who were close but didn’t make the list. After outlining five players who just missed, there are still others worth highlighting, particularly as they’ve been largely
Comstock Park, MI –February 18, 2021– The countdown to baseball’s Opening Day can officially begin. Major League Baseball (MLB) announced today the release of the West Michigan Whitecaps 2021 Minor League Baseball (MiLB) schedule. For Whitecaps schedule click here: https://img.mlbstatic.com/milb-images/image/upload/milb/m0jykkcrjy0q62y7gy52.pdf “Our fans have been very patient for a very long time,” said Jim Jarecki, VP
The Erie SeaWolves, Double-A Affiliate of the Detroit Tigers, today release their game dates and opponents for the 2021 season. Erie’s hometown team will open the 2021 season on Tuesday, May 4 against the Reading Fightin Phils (Philadelphia Phillies) at FirstEnergy Stadium. Opening Night at UPMC Park, presented by Plyler The Erie SeaWolves, Double-A Affiliate
Welcome to the first installment of the Motor City Bengals Top 20 Detroit Tigers prospects. The MCB staff has compiled individual prospect lists and released our consensus rankings, along with a breakdown of each player, from number 20 Adinso Reyes, to number 2 Spencer Torkelson. Today we finish the countdown with our number 1 prospect, outfielder Riley…
Jeff Seidel | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — I turned right onto Al Kaline Drive and headed toward bizzaro-world, the strangest start to a spring training I’ve ever seen. A morning rain left puddles in the parking lot outside Joker Marchant Stadium, and a dreary sky looked like a wet, grey blanket hanging from
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — Tarik Skubal and Matt Manning — the fifth- and third-ranked prospects in the Tigers system per MLBpipeline.com — were throwing off neighboring bullpen mounds on the back fields of Joker Marchant Stadium on Wednesday. Skubal, 6-3, left-handed, coming almost old-school over-the-top with mid- to upper-90 mph heat and
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — Manager AJ Hinch didn’t sugarcoat it. He not only established an agenda and objectives for his pitching staff Wednesday, the first day of pitcher-catcher workouts, he challenged them to be the catalysts for the Tigers’ turnaround. “It was invigorating,” Tigers veteran lefty Matthew Boyd said of Hinch’s first
We don’t need to rehash the reasons for the misery, do we? Whether it’s a deserved fate or a quirk in timing, Detroit’s pro sports teams are historically bad right now, and that’s not even the story. The story is, how do they get out of this, and who gets out quicker? As the Tigers report
Not a single one of Detroit’s four professional teams can even sniff contendership right now, and that’s all right. We’ve all suffered this long, what’s another year or two while we wait for one of these teams to figure it out? In the meantime, we’ve compiled the worst teams in Detroit sports history for your
As first overall picks, Spencer Torkelson and Casey Mize headline the Tigers highly touted farm system. But look a little deeper, and you’ll see reasons for optimism throughout the franchise’s developmental ranks. Get a comprehensive overview of the Tigers top prospects, including each of the members of their 2020 draft class: Torkelson, Dillon Dingler, Daniel
Jeff Seidel | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — Tarik Skubal, one of the most important pieces in the Detroit Tigers rebuild, looked “good” — he looked like himself — in his first bullpen Wednesday morning. “He looks good — looks like Skubal,” said catcher Grayson Greiner, who caught the bullpen after pitchers and catchers reported to
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — AJ Hinch called it the elephant in the room, but shoot, this particular elephant has been shadowing Grayson Greiner every spring. “We’ve got Wilson Ramos (signed for one year at $2 million) and then a bunch of people competing for the same job,” Hinch told his catchers Wednesday.
Michiganders can take some warmth as pitchers and catchers report for the Detroit Tigers today. In addition to the excitement in the air about players arriving to camp, news broke out yesterday that the Detroit Tigers are interested in adding another starting pitcher.