Lakeland, Fla. — Perhaps the most written-about minor league minicamp in Tigers history ended in the rain Thursday afternoon on the back fields at Joker Marchant Stadium. The killing blow, as it turned out, was a line drive, opposite-field home run by outfielder Jacob Robson in the top of the ninth — umpires and club officials waving
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Tigers prospects Riley Greene, left, and Gage Workman warm up during spring training Minor League minicamp Monday, Feb. 21, 2022 at Tiger Town in Lakeland, Florida. Tigers5 Would an international draft benefit the Detroit Tigers? by Roger Castillo
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After many hours at the negotiating table — and many more hours spent tweeting about what was happening at said table — the MLB lockout is over, the Free Press can confirm. Multiple reports suggest that the players voted in favor of the owners’ latest proposal, 26-12, but that the union’s eight-player executive board voted against the
Well that was excruciating. We’ll have a lot more detail later, but for now, know that Major League Baseball is back on the menu. Just after 3 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, the players and owners finally reached a conclusive agreement, and after a half-hour of nail-biting to see if the players would vote to ratify,
Major League Baseball owners and players finally reached agreement on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that will allow for a full 162 game season to be played in 2022. The players’ representatives went against the recommendation of their eight-man executive council who rejected the proposal on an 8- 0 vote and approved the new
Well, well, well, Major League Baseball is back. They hurt us, but it’s hard to be anything but happy that our long offseason nightmare is now over. We’ll be discussing the fallout from this nonsense for a long-time to come. Now that the deal is agreed and the pie re-divided, look for the owners to
Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association reached an agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement on Thursday, paving the way for the 2022 regular season to begin on April 7. The CBA must still be ratified by both sides before it becomes official. Once that happens, Spring Training camps are expected to open
According to a story in ESPN published yesterday, MLB stated that they have included the idea of an international draft in every proposal since July 2021, while the union has stated they have rejected the idea each time. But for Detroit Tigers fans, and baseball fans in general, the news of this proposal seemed to…
Detroit — Fans who bought tickets to the Tigers’ home opener still will have tickets for Opening Day. We just don’t know when Opening Day will be. As Major League Baseball and the players’ association continue to negotiate the terms of a new collective bargaining agreement, the second week of the regular season was canceled Wednesday night.
19-year-old Manuel Sequera is coming off hitting 11 home runs in 46 games during last year’s Florida Complex League season. Now in the Tigers minor league camp, his continued power display includes a BP home run off a premiere pitching prospect. Dan Dickerson catches up with the promising shortstop from Venezuela.
It seemed that a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between Major League Baseball’s (MLB) players and owners was getting close again on Wednesday afternoon. The once huge gaps between the two sides had narrowed to just $2 million on the lowest tier of the competitive balance tax (CBT), and just $10 million on the minimum
Commissioner of Baseball Robert D. Manfred, Jr. issued the following statement today: “In a last-ditch effort to preserve a 162-game season, this week we have made good-faith proposals that address the specific concerns voiced by the MLBPA and would have allowed the players to return to the field immediately. The Clubs went to extraordinary lengths to
LAKELAND, Fla. — No, Colt Keith says, he doesn’t have any thoughts of being a two-way player, even though he was scouted in high school as both a hitter and a pitcher before the Tigers drafted him as a third baseman in 2020. Still, Keith admits, he tried to talk his way into a cameo
LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers prospect Spencer Torkelson is ready for Major League Baseball’s lockout to end. There’s optimism for labor peace between MLB and the MLB Players Association, as both sides continue negotiations Wednesday in New York in hopes of a new collective bargaining agreement. MIZE EYES NEW ROLE: Why Tigers’ Casey Mize is ‘definitely interested’
Lakeland, Fla. — Nah, that wasn’t going to fly. Not even in a controlled scrimmage against two minor-league minicamp squads. Phillies right-hander Nick Duron, pitching in the eighth inning of a 10.5-inning slog Tuesday in Clearwater, struck out Tigers’ infield prospect Colt Keith on three pitches. As Keith was walking back to the dugout, Duron
LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers prospect Trei Cruz isn’t angry, but he wishes he would have known the specifics of his injury sooner. Cruz, the 73rd overall pick in the 2020 draft, played the first four games of his professional career for High-A West Michigan before dislocating his shoulder on a swing, sending him to the injured
Pamela Moore knows firsthand how a quality education opens doors to the world. A native Detroiter and Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) alumna, Moore earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance and an MBA from Wayne State University. After finishing her education, she spent several years serving each of Detroit’s last three mayors, specifically working
Tuesday evening’s CBA proposal from the owners to the players left many feeling like they were negotiating in good faith for the first time in this cycle’s renegotiation process. A notable element of that proposal was a the implementation of an international draft, the specifics of which were made available to the public. Reporting indicates
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Though Eric De La Rosa was born and raised in California, he has Dominican roots and speaks Spanish fluently. So when teammates in the Tigers’ Minor League minicamp need help with English, he’s often there to help. That puts him in a unique position with some of the Tigers’ highly touted outfield