After dropping Thursday night’s contest against the Royals, the Tigers had a close one for a while, but things got out of hand in a hurry: a 3-2 game was a 9-2 game in the blink of an eye. The man who needs no introduction, Tarik Skubal, started for the Tigers. Since, as mentioned, he
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As teams gear up for the stretch run with the trade deadline behind us, here are three things we’ll be keeping an eye on around the baseball world headed into the weekend: 1. Tigers to retire Leyland’s number: The Tigers announced yesterday that they plan to honor recently-inducted Hall of Fame manager Jim Leyland by
Indianapolis Indians 7, Toledo Mud Hens 3 (box) Spencer Torkelson homered again in this one, but it wasn’t enough as a close game was blown open in the eighth by Indy. Like the Tigers, the Hens pitching staff is shot, so it was another bullpen game for them as well. Hard to win like this.
Welcome to August, post trade deadline, and time to see what the rest of the year is going to to look like. The Tigers are finally done with the Guardians, but they do still have other division rivals on the schedule, starting with a weekend series against the Royals. Seth Lugo was on the mound
Throughout the month of July, Tarik Skubal’s name frequently surfaced in reports of teams eyeing rotation upgrades. He was widely considered to be a long-shot trade candidate, at best — we listed him 50th on our Top 50 trade candidate list, noting his unrivaled ability to impact a new club but also the Tigers’ unwillingness
The Tigers announced they have selected the contracts of right-hander Brenan Hanifee and left-hander Sean Guenther. They also reinstated shortstop Javier Báez from the medical emergency/bereavement list. They will take the open roster spots of Jack Flaherty, Mark Canha and Andrew Chafin, who were all traded away on deadline day. Evan Woodbery of MLive Media
Chris Clegg, founder of The Dynasty Dugout, breaks down who the Detroit Tigers received by trading Jack Flaherty to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Listen to the full “Days of Roar” podcast here: https://youtu.be/hZgTD3hV9X0
The latest episode of the MLB Trade Rumors Podcast is now live on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your podcasts! Make sure you subscribe as well! You can also use the player at this link to listen, if you don’t use Spotify or Apple for podcasts. This week, host Darragh McDonald is joined by Tim Dierkes, Steve
Indianapolis Indians 7, Toledo Mud Hens 5 (box) Lael Lockhart Jr. had a tough outing and only a late rally kept this from looking like a beatdown in the box score. The left-hander’s high-80’s fastball has zero room for error against better hitters and Indy proved it out by launching a pair of home runs