Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers’ AJ Hinch thinks team can win in 2021 with ‘mindset change’ Detroit Tigers manager AJ Hinch breaks down the team’s offseason entering the 2021 season Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press Detroit Tigers manager AJ Hinch made a bold statement about
Lynn Henning | The Detroit News A year that will live in infamy for so many, 2020, has turned darker for a top Tigers pitching prospect. Alex Faedo now must endure the year-plus recovery that follows Tommy John ligament reconstruction. A first-round draft pick by the Tigers in 2017, Faedo, 25, will have surgery this
The Detroit Tigers suffered a huge blow in 2021 as Alex Faedo will have Tommy John surgery this month and will be out for the 2021 season. The team made the announcement this morning. Fadeo missed summer camp due to COVID-19 then forearm tightness sidelined him for the year back in August.
Tigers pitching prospect Alex Faedo will undergo Tommy John surgery this month to reconstruct the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow, the team announced Saturday. Faedo, the Tigers’ first-round pick in the 2017 MLB Draft, ranks 10th on the Tigers’ Top 30 Prospects list, per MLB Pipeline. He was Tigers pitching prospect Alex Faedo
Tigers right-hander Alex Faedo will undergo UCL surgery later this month, as per a statement released by the team. As per the usual timeline for Tommy John procedures, Faedo will miss the entire 2021 season but should be ready by Opening Day 2022. Faedo has a 3.96 ERA, 4.07 K/BB rate, and 9.3 K/9 over
Detroit’s 2020 Ebenezer Scrooge, aka Chris Ilitch, has had his trusty minions, Al Avila, and the mainstream local media, dutifully pushing the narrative that patience is required. If teams were ranked on the performance of their PR department, the Detroit Tigers would be World Series contenders.
Lynn Henning | The Detroit News Another lost year to Tommy John surgery blindsided the Tigers on Saturday when they announced Alex Faedo would be lost for 2021 with elbow-ligament surgery scheduled for this coming week. Faedo, 25, was the Tigers’ first-round pick in 2017 out of the University of Florida. The right-hander was moving
Ed Farmer debuted with the Indians in 1971. His first big league start was against Detroit in the second game of a doubleheader in Cleveland on June 20. In the top of first, Gates Brown doubled with one out. During Al Kaline’s at-bat, one of Farmer’s pitches got away from catcher Chuck Hinton. Brown moved…
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Alex Faedo throws a bullpen session at Detroit Tigers spring training Alex Faedo throws a bullpen session at Detroit Tigers spring training in Lakeland, Fla. on Feb. 18, 2020. Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press Columnist Detroit Tigers pitching prospect Alex Faedo will have Tommy John
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers’ AJ Hinch thinks team can win in 2021 with ‘mindset change’ Detroit Tigers manager AJ Hinch breaks down the team’s offseason entering the 2021 season Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press This offseason, AJ Hinch returned to the managers club, an exclusive group
Associated Press | Associated Press ESPN will open its “Sunday Night Baseball” schedule on April 4 when the Los Angeles Angels host the Chicago White Sox. The game will feature the last two American League MVPs, with the Angels’ Mike Trout facing reigning MVP and White Sox first baseman José Abreu. The following week will
Akil Baddoo hasn’t played a game above Class A ball, and he hasn’t played a formal game at any level since spring of 2019. But the Tigers’ Rule 5 Draft pick from last week is already fitting in with Detroit’s roster. The former Twins outfield prospect said he has been Akil Baddoo hasn’t played a
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Lynn Henning | The Detroit News Immediately you know, from the fluency of his thoughts and words, that Akil Baddoo was tempted by his University of Kentucky scholarship for more reasons than baseball. “Business,” he said Friday when asked about his probable major had he taken that UK offer. In fact, a business decision is
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers OF Akil Baddoo ‘100% ready to go’ after Rule 5 draft Outfielder Akil Baddoo speaks Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, about being selected by Detroit Tigers in the Rule 5 draft and his recovery from elbow surgery. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press When the
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers’ AJ Hinch thinks team can win in 2021 with ‘mindset change’ Detroit Tigers manager AJ Hinch breaks down the team’s offseason entering the 2021 season Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press Creativity is crucial to the Detroit Tigers‘ success in
By Connor Byrne | December 17, 2020 at 2:32pm CDT The Nationals and the representative for free-agent catcher J.T. Realmuto “have had early discussions,” Brittany Ghiroli of The Athletic writes. Despite that, Ghiroli casts doubt on the Nationals signing Realmuto because of general manager Mike Rizzo’s suggestion earlier this week that the club doesn’t have
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Earlier this week the good folks at MLB.com published a piece about the most spectacular Statcast plays for each team in 2020. We thought we’d piggyback on that idea and give Detroit Tigers fans a deeper look at performances by their team.
Earlier this week, MLB Pipeline’s Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo rolled out their list of the Top 100 prospects for the 2021 Draft, offering fans a comprehensive look at the best amateur players in the country. Beyond those rankings, they also applied their expertise in putting together a mock draft for the Top 10 slots