It is the middle of February and baseball is in the air despite the frigid temperatures that still grip a great deal of the nation. So while everyone is bundled up inside, what better time is there to put on a nice record while we wait for the temperature to rise? If I may humbly
Welcome to the first installment of the Motor City Bengals Top 20 Detroit Tigers prospects. The MCB staff has compiled our prospect lists and we will be releasing our consensus rankings, along with a breakdown of each player, in a series of articles in the coming days. Today, we look at number 4 on our list, Casey Mize.
In our continuing series of getting to know the 2021 Detroit Tigers 40 man roster, with the last piece featuring Gregory Soto by Rogelio Castillo, here is a brief rundown of Zach Short, a lesser-known player to at least cast an eye towards as a possible late bloomer.
Hey, guys. We did it. It’s baseball week. The pitchers and catchers reporting countdown can now be justifiably framed in hours as opposed to days. The team has made some last-minute moves to further solidify(?) the lineup, and we are most likely looking at the fat slab of clay that Al Avila, A.J. Hinch, and
The Tigers are staking their future on the highly regarded prospects they’ve drafted and developed over the past five years. If the club manages to pull off a turnaround, it wouldn’t mark the first time Detroit has taken the Draft pipeline to success. Here’s a look at the top five homegrown Draft picks in Tigers
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption AJ Hinch: ‘In a perfect world’ Detroit Tigers sign a catcher Detroit Tigers manager AJ Hinch checks in Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, to discuss the roster and free-agent market as spring training looms. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press Despite COVID-19 concerns, the Detroit Tigers are
Gabe Lacques | USA TODAY Show Caption Hide Caption MLB’s new 2021 COVID-19 protocols are stricter USA TODAY Sports’ Bob Nightengale breaks down the MLB’s new health and safety protocols. USA TODAY The Detroit Tigers open spring training Thursday in Lakeland, Florida, with the first full-team workout one week out. There’s still far too many unknowns
With the days of winter fading away conjuring up the fabled image of a baseball-starved superstar Rogers Hornsby looking out his window and waiting for Spring…it’s getting to be time for any final moves the Detroit Tigers might wish to contemplate before they open operations in Lakeland.
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers ‘confident’ fans can safely return to Comerica Park in 2021 Detroit Tigers vice president of ballpark operations Chris Lawrence checks in Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, to discuss fans at spring training in Lakeland. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press The Detroit Tigers improved their farm system’s offense
Janie McCauley | Associated Press Oakland, Calif. — Veteran reliever Yusmeiro Petit has agreed to a $2.55 million, one-year contract to stay with the Oakland Athletics, pending a physical, his agent said. The deal could pay the right-handed Petit up to $3 million based on incentives for games pitched, agent Rafael Godoy said Sunday night.
The wait is over. This week, if they haven’t already arrived, players will begin showing up at Spring Training sites all over Florida and Arizona. This Spring Training will obviously be unlike any other, but it will still have what fans crave the most; it will remind us that baseball is coming, that things are
Lynn Henning | The Detroit News (Can’t see the whole story? Sign in or subscribe). Drive south from Tigertown’s baseball complex in Lakeland, Florida, and you run into Drew Carlton’s old neighborhood. His folks, Richard and Michelle, are day-traders whose home, where Drew grew up, is a minute or two from George Jenkins High where Drew
With the Super Bowl now behind us, and pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training in just a few days, the 2021 baseball season is ready to get underway. To kick off our preseason coverage of your Detroit Tigers, it is time for the annual ritual, as we present our ranking of the Tigers top
Welcome to the first installment of the Motor City Bengals Top 20 Detroit Tigers prospects. The MCB staff has compiled our prospect lists and we will be releasing our consensus rankings, along with a breakdown of each player, in a series of articles in the coming days. Today, we look at number 5 on our list, Matt…
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Despite COVID-19 concerns, the Detroit Tigers are returning to Lakeland, Florida, for spring training. It’s the unofficial start of the 2021 season and the beginning of new manager AJ Hinch’s era. Pitchers and catchers report Wednesday, followed by the first full-team workout Feb. 22. The Tigers will play Grapefruit
Welcome to the first installment of the Motor City Bengals Top 20 Detroit Tigers prospects. The MCB staff has compiled our prospect lists and we will be releasing our consensus rankings, along with a breakdown of each player, in a series of articles in the coming days. Today it’s a look at Isaac Paredes…the 6th ranked Tigers…
Lakeland, Fla. – The mission within the mission for the Tigers this offseason was to build a lineup that would, at the very least, have a fighting chance against all the right-handed pitching that has dominated them the last two seasons. (Can’t see the whole story? Sign in or subscribe.) The Tigers ranked last in
Minor League Baseball (MiLB), as an entity, has ceased to exist. Their offices in St Petersburg, Florida, no longer control operations for some 160 minor league teams in over a dozen leagues across the United States. In it’s place, Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Rob Manfred’s “One Baseball” plan has completed what can be described
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — It was such a good story. While it lasted. Right-hander John Schreiber, the NAIA star from the Downriver area, a 15th round pick who worked his way into a spot in the Tigers’ bullpen the last two seasons, was designated for assignment on Friday — making room for
The Tigers announced that they have designated right-hander John Schreiber for assignment to make room for newly signed outfielder Nomar Mazara. Schreiber, a Michigan native whom the Tigers chose in the 15th round of the 2016 draft, came out of their bullpen in each of the previous two seasons. The 26-year-old has totaled 28 2/3