The Tigers have several intriguing relief prospects in their Minor League minicamp, but Zack Hess was a notable omission from the roster that came out last week. There was a good reason: The former LSU reliever turned High-A West Michigan closer underwent Tommy John surgery last month. Hess will miss the entire 2022 season. He
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Check in with Tigers highly touted prospects Riley Greene, Spencer Torkelson and Dillon Dingler as they begin their 2022 season at the Tigers Minor League Spring Training Camp.
Ronald Blum | Associated Press Jupiter, Fla. — With perhaps a week left to salvage opening day, union head Tony Clark attended negotiations on Monday for the first time since Major League Baseball’s lockout began, accompanied by New York Mets stars Max Scherzer, Francisco Lindor and Brandon Nimmo. The Cardinals’ Paul Goldschmidt, the Yankees’ Jameson Taillon, the Reds’
LAKELAND, Fla. — One round after another, Spencer Torkelson took batting practice swings at Tigertown on Monday, sending drives toward the fire training facility beyond the practice field fence. But the slugging prospect’s best offering on a tee came in the interview session afterward. Asked if he had done anything fitness-wise in his offseason workouts
Lakeland, Fla. — His absence from the Tigers’ minor league minicamp was noticeable. And now it has been explained. Zack Hess, a 6-6 right-handed reliever the Tigers’ drafted in the seventh round out of LSU in 2019, underwent Tommy John surgery last month. He will miss the 2022 season. Hess, who turns 25 on Friday, made
LAKELAND, Fla. — Click-clack. Click-clack. They came out of the Detroit Tigers building — the future walking toward the back fields at TigerTown. Spencer Torkelson and Riley Greene started out walking together, their spikes clacking off the concrete, toward about 35 fans standing behind a chain-link fence. “Hey guys!” somebody said. TOP PROSPECT: Potential for Jackson Jobe? ‘No.
LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers right-hander Zack Hess underwent Tommy John surgery in late January. The procedure took place in Arlington, Texas. He will miss the entire 2022 season. Hess, a seventh-round pick from LSU in the 2019 draft, pitched for High-A West Michigan and Double-A Erie last season, along with making 10 appearances out of the
When looking at the Detroit Tigers 40-man roster last night in doing a write up on Matt Strahm, it never occurred to me to look back at the 2017 Houston Astros roster. Manager A.J. Hinch used just one left-hander in Tony Sipp out of the bullpen that season.
In celebration of Black History Month throughout February, teams across Minor League Baseball are taking a look back at five of the best Black players to suit up for their club. While some of these standout performers went on to long and illustrious Major League careers, others simply had great In celebration of Black History
The second round of the MLB amateur draft had been a bit of a black hole for the Detroit Tigers until they selected Dillon Dingler with the first pick of the second round in 2020. Looking to go back-to-back, the club selected prep shortstop Izaac Pacheco with the third pick of the second round in
Felecia Evans-Smith wanted her son’s “first day of school” picture — for the last time. “Have somebody take your picture,” she told her son, Dylan Smith, who was also the Detroit Tigers‘ third-round selection in the 2021 MLB draft. So this professional baseball player — who had already signed a $1.1 million contract with the
LAKELAND, Fla. — Notre Dame pitching coach Chuck Ristano thought back to the first time he played catch with Tanner Kohlhepp. Well, it wasn’t really a game of catch. Because Ristano couldn’t keep track of the baseball. “It was the first time I ever played catch with one of our pitchers and whiffed,” said Ristano, in his 12th
Many of the Royals’ best pitching prospects are returning from injury-shortened seasons, yet as MLB.com’s Anne Rogers writes, most of these young arms are back at the club’s minor league camp in good health. The most prominent of these names is Asa Lacy, the fourth overall pick of the 2020 draft and a consensus top-40
When the MLB lockout started back in December, we pumped the brakes on individual free agent pieces for the Detroit Tigers to consider. However, with the negotiations starting up again on Monday, we looked at a few arms that could help either the starting rotation or the bullpen.
Lakeland, Fla. — Drew Carlton isn’t about to let himself be defined by 19 batters. That just won’t do. “You just have to push through and keep working,” said the Lakeland-born, 26-year-old reliever who made an inauspicious, 19-batter, major-league debut with the Tigers last September and was lopped off the 40-man roster two months later.
As the Detroit Tigers mini-camp resumes tomorrow, as far as arms that are in camp that might shape the 2022 Erie SeaWolves rotation, we have to look back at their 2021 season for a moment. The SeaWolves finished 64-55 under manager Arnie Beyeler as their offense was one of the more potent ones in the…
LAKELAND, Fla. — Spencer Torkelson has a fancy set of wheels. The 22-year-old reported to the Detroit Tigers’ spring training facility Sunday morning, cruising into the players’ parking lot at Joker Marchant Stadium in a matte-gray 2020 Mercedes-Benz AMG G63. The security guard waved him through the gate. Helluva ride. “Thank you,” Torkelson said, laughing. TRENDING: Potential for
Lakeland, Fla. — Go back and read some of the early scouting reports on Tigers’ No. 11-ranked prospect Reese Olson, the right-handed starting pitcher they acquired from Milwaukee for Daniel Norris. For all the algorithms and technological measuring devices out there these days, talent evaluation remains an inexact science. You still can’t fully measure what’s in
In 2019, right-hander Joel Kuhnel threw 53 2/3 innings between Double-A and Triple-A with an ERA of 2.18, strikeout rate of 23.3% and walk rate of 7.4%. Just 24 years old at the time, he also made his MLB debut that year, logging 9 2/3 innings out of the Reds’ bullpen. Unfortunately, he hasn’t been
In the 2021 amateur draft, the Detroit Tigers made a decided push to bolster their pitching pipeline. Five of their first six selections were starting pitchers, power arms all, with Jackson Jobe and Ty Madden leading the way. The system had gotten a little thin in pitching with the graduation of Casey Mize, Tarik Skubal,