Beth Harris | Associated Press Los Angeles — Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda was memorialized during a private service at Dodger Stadium before his burial on Tuesday. Lasorda died Jan. 7 after a heart attack at age 93. His casket, covered with a huge assortment of blue and white flowers, was placed on the
Ronald Blum and Rob Gillies | Associated Press Toronto — All-Star outfielder George Springer became the most prominent among baseball’s free agents to reach an agreement this offseason, a $150 million, six-year contract with the Toronto Blue Jays, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity
MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2021 Top 100 Prospects list on Friday, Jan. 29. Leading up to the release of the Top 100, we’ll examine baseball’s top 10 prospects at each position. Baseball’s 10 best left-handed pitching prospects are coming to big league ballparks soon. Very soon. Brendan McKay (Rays) MLB Pipeline will reveal its
Beth Harris | Associated Press Los Angeles — Don Sutton, a Hall of Fame pitcher who was a stalwart of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ rotation spanning an era from Sandy Koufax to Fernando Valenzuela, died Tuesday. He was 75. The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, said Sutton died at his home in
The Tigers announced Tuesday that they’ve signed free-agent righty Erasmo Ramirez to a minor league contract and invited him to Major League Spring Training. A veteran of nine MLB seasons, Ramirez returns to the American League after a one-year sojourn in the NL with the Mets. Ramirez signed a minors deal with New York last
The Tigers have fielded a diverse roster of players from all over the world, especially over the last 20 years, but they’ve never had a Nicaraguan-born player. That could change this year if Erasmo Ramírez makes Detroit’s pitching staff. The Tigers added to their pitching depth on Tuesday by signing The Tigers have fielded a
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers’ George Lombard reflects on mother ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day Tigers bench coach George Lombard’s mother, Posy, was a civil rights activist alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Her son shares story, Jan. 17, 2021. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press The
Meet an under-the-radar Tigers prospect who’s big arm is raising expectations.
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Detroit — The Tigers on Tuesday added another veteran pitcher to the mix. Right-hander Erasmo Ramirez, entering his age-31 season with parts of 10 big-league seasons under his belt, was signed to a minor-league contract with an invitation to the Tigers’ big-league camp next month. Ramirez pitched in six games out
Mike Fitzpatrick | Associated Press New York — Jared Porter went from rising star to unemployed — literally overnight. Just more than a month after joining the New York Mets as general manager, Porter was fired Tuesday for sending sexually explicit, uninvited text messages and images to a female reporter in 2016 when he was
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers’ George Lombard reflects on mother ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day Tigers bench coach George Lombard’s mother, Posy, was a civil rights activist alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Her son shares story, Jan. 17, 2021. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press Detroit
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Detroit — Tigers manager AJ Hinch, speaking on MLB Network Radio on Sirius XM on Sunday, gave a little clue as to what general manager Al Avila might still be looking to add to the roster this offseason. “If you give an analysis of our team last year, we were
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers international signee Cristian Santana has ‘advanced approach’ with bat Detroit Tigers director of international operations Tom Moore checks in Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, to discuss the newest members of the organization. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press The Detroit Tigers upgraded their crop of
MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2021 Top 100 Prospects list on Friday, Jan. 29. Leading up to the release of the Top 100, we’ll examine baseball’s Top 10 prospects at each position. In the shortened 2020 season, many young arms were called upon to help out pitching staffs. Six of MLB Pipeline will reveal its
Ah yes, it is the most wonderful time of the year if you are a fan of prospects. The annual Baseball America’s top 100 prospects list was released and the Detroit Tigers are well represented on the list.
(Click here for part one on Al Kaline’s quest to 3,000 hits. Click here for part two.) Al Kaline had played a lot of baseball and collected a lot of hits by the time August 1974 rolled around. To be exact, he had played in 2,778 big league games and collected 2,950 hits. Reaching 3,000…
Maybe Detroit Tigers veteran starter Matthew Boyd is who he is; we have collectively been watching and waiting with each passing season for a Matthew Boyd breakout into the ace-like ceiling many have proposed for him. He certainly has some of the ingredients–tall, long, and strong with strike-throwing ability and a slider that generates a multitude…
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers’ George Lombard reflects on mother ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day Tigers bench coach George Lombard’s mother, Posy, was a civil rights activist alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Her son shares story, Jan. 17, 2021. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press George
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Spencer Torkelson smashes home run in Tigers instructional league game Detroit Tigers infield prospect Spencer Torkelson, the No. 1 overall pick in 2020 MLB draft, smashes a home run to LF in instructional league game in Lakeland, Fla., Oct. 19, 2020. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free