Lakeland, Fla. — These are strange, uncertain times for Blaine Hardy. The former Tigers reliever posted a video of himself on Twitter over the weekend throwing his still-nasty array of breaking balls, changeups and cutters in 40-degree weather to JUCO hitters at Central Lake College in Brainerd, Minnesota. “Nicky was harping on me for the longest
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As Spring Training began, Tigers officials were candid in saying that top prospects Spencer Torkelson and Riley Greene would be given genuine opportunities to make the Opening Day roster. One week before the start of a highly anticipated season in Detroit, the close friends are on the verge of fulfilling their dream of debuting together
The Detroit Tigers have received infamously little in trade returns during the Al Avila era, but Jeimer Candelario has been a rare clear win. The back-to-back Tiger of the Year award winner has been a crucial part of the organization’s rebuild both on and off the field, and now that the future is starting to
It was a logical order, but it was notable that Cabrera was lower in the middle of that order than he has traditionally hit. Handling a great player’s career as it winds down can be one of the toughest, most delicate tasks for a manager. It can be a balancing act between the inevitable acknowledgment
Major League Baseball’s arduous 2021-22 offseason featured a 99-day lockout that ultimately resulted in an abbreviated spring training and a delayed Opening Day. Things have frantically fallen into place since the new labor deal came together on March 10, with every team trying to jam most of its winter moves into just a few weeks.
Apple TV+ is your home for a doubleheader of MLB action every Friday night this season, and on Tuesday the first-half schedule of games was announced. You can watch all of these game for free on Apple TV+. The 2022 slate begins on April 8 when Max Scherzer and the Mets take on Juan Soto
Tigers starting pitcher Casey Mize has lofty goals for himself and his team this season. #DetroitRoots #MarygroveAwnings
Comerica Park has been the home of the Detroit Tigers for north of 20 years now and its dimensions have long been a topic of debate across the baseball landscape. Some will point to extra-base numbers to support the park is fairly neutral offensively while others will use the eye test and gesture at the…
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The fallout from the protracted CBA negotiations continues to have unique consequences as teams look to finalize their active rosters this spring. The compressed spring training schedule has thrown off the timing of the usual spring calendar. Normally, the final roster decisions would be coming through right now, with the season only days away. Instead,
We continue our series of Detroit Tigers 40-man roster previews with Miguel Del Pozo, a 29-year-old southpaw originally from the Dominican Republic. The Detroit Tigers have been looking for solid left-handed relief pitching for years, but with Gregory Soto entrenched as the team’s closer, Tyler Alexander serving as a lefty long reliever, and Andrew Chafin…
LAKELAND, Fla. — The best sports stories come out of nowhere. Well, that’s not entirely true, is it? Because somebody saw Akil Baddoo coming last spring. Al Avila, for one, though even the Detroit Tigers general manager couldn’t have predicted the Baddoo-mania that swept through Detroit last April … and he drafted him. Baddoo’s family,
LAKELAND, Fla. — The Detroit Tigers and manager AJ Hinch are serious about the creative idea of carrying three catchers for the 2022 season: Tucker Barnhart, Eric Haase and Dustin Garneau. With Opening Day less than two weeks away, Hinch has a handful of decisions to make about his roster. The biggest choice is whether top prospects Spencer
LAKELAND, Fla. — Tigers fans have been dreaming for the past couple years about Riley Greene and Spencer Torkelson homering back-to-back in Detroit’s lineup. On Monday, they came within feet of providing fans at Joker Marchant Stadium a sneak preview of what’s to come at Comerica Park. The Tigers’ dynamic duo of hitting prospects combined
LAKELAND, Fla. — The Detroit Tigers lost to the New York Yankees, 11-7, on Monday at Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium, dropping to 4-5 (with two ties) in Grapefruit League play. What happened On the first pitch of the game, Tigers left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez fell behind on the scoreboard. He Rodriguez allowed a leadoff home run
Lakeland, Fla. — It felt like the right time to ask. It was not. On a day when five more players were reassigned out of camp, and the roster battles became more clearly defined, manager AJ Hinch was asked if top prospects Spencer Torkelson and Riley Greene had made the team. “Too soon,” Hinch said Monday.
LAKELAND, Fla. — The Detroit Tigers lost to the New York Yankees, 11-7, on Monday at Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium, dropping to 4-5 (with two ties) in Grapefruit League play. What happened On the first pitch of the game, Tigers right-hander Eduardo Rodriguez fell behind on the scoreboard. Rodriguez allowed a leadoff home run to
Detroit Tigers manager A. J. Hinch is pretty straight to the point when speaking to the media. Today, he addressed the question about Spencer Torkelson and Riley Greene making the team. It was a typical morning down in spring training as the Detroit Tigers beat writers gathered around to talk to A. J. Hinch as…
The Detroit Tigers are just 11 days from beginning their season, but Detroit sports fans have once again been drawn in by the NFL’s unstoppable attention machine. The Detroit Lions will be the focus of this season of Hard Knocks, HBO’s annual behind-the-scenes look at NFL squads.
Lakeland, Fla. — Tigers general manager Al Avila has said often that he considers third baseman Jeimer Candelario one of the club’s foundation pieces. “For sure, he’s a guy that we would count on here going into the future,” he said at the end of last season. But you can’t fault Candelario for being at least