Opening Day rosters featured 17 Top 100 Prospects, yet it’s some unheralded rookies who have made the biggest impact during the first week of the big league season. Tigers outfielder Akil Baddoo, Reds second baseman Jonathan India, Dodgers utilityman Zach McKinstry and White Sox catcher Yermín Mercedes have generated plenty of highlights. There are several
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One dead giveaway in appreciating the human psyche, in knowing if a person is dealing with bruises or with better days, is the voice. Spencer Torkelson sounded — mostly — Thursday as if he had hit .370 rather than .037 during March’s spring camp at Lakeland, Florida. It was his first spring training with the Tigers, his first
By TC Zencka | April 8, 2021 at 12:07pm CDT Some good news on the COVID front today… Tigers’ pitching coach Chris Fetter was cleared to rejoin the team, per the Athletic’s Cody Stavenhagen (via Twitter). Fetter tested positive for coronavirus at the end of March, and he’s been away from the team since. He
The debut episode of the Tigers season long series, HOME, features the excitement of Opening Day, including a memorable blast from Miguel Cabrera through snow flurries and an inspiring pitching performance from Matthew Boyd. Later, rookie outfielder Akil Baddoo steals the show with an unforgettable 3-day stretch that has fans in the Motor City singing
The Detroit Tigers Weekly Draft Report has reached the halfway point of the college baseball season. This week’s report is a bit late, as last weekend’s games were spread from Thursday to Monday because of holidays and poor weather.
DETROIT — The Tigers, looking to turn the corner from years of struggles, find signs of hope in one of the least likely places. A Rule 5 Draft pick not only cracks the Opening Day roster, but he takes off for a historic start that carries the Tigers with him. In the process, he becomes
Cleveland — Maybe it’ll be different by the end of the weekend. Maybe he won’t really feel anything until the plane lands in Houston or until he walks back into that stadium, which has been his personal field of dreams. Maybe it won’t happen until his name is announced and the fans stand and applaud and
The Tigers get a critical part of their pitching staff back in time for a big early test, even if he won’t throw a pitch on their upcoming road trip. Pitching coach Chris Fetter has been cleared to rejoin the Tigers this weekend as they begin a 10-game trip to Cleveland, Houston and Oakland. The
The Detroit Tigers are getting a key piece of their coaching staff back for the first time this season. Pitching coach Chris Fetter has been cleared to return from COVID-19, the team announced Thursday. Missing since the end of spring training, he will travel with the Tigers on their upcoming 10-game road trip, which starts Friday
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In his first two starts of 2021, Detroit Tigers left-hander Matthew Boyd nearly knocked off both the first- and second-place finishers in last year’s American League Cy Young race. Boyd dethroned Cleveland ace Shane Bieber — the unanimous Cy Yong winner in 2020 — on Opening Day, leading the Tigers to a 3-2 victory. Six days later, Boyd
It’s a good sign your message is being heard as a manager when you start hearing it repeated back. It’s an even better sign, though, when you start seeing it put into action. And so it is with this “race to two strikes” we’ve heard quite a lot about from AJ Hinch and the Tigers’ pitching
Detroit — The culture of pressure that AJ Hinch has tried to instill in the Tigers this spring has paid plenty of dividends already this season. But in the sixth inning Wednesday, it may have crossed the line from aggressive to reckless. Trailing by a run, the Tigers had two runners thrown out at the
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The Detroit Tigers weren’t able to recreate their late-game heroics in the three-game series finale, as Minnesota Twins right-hander Alex Colome retired the three batters he faced in the ninth inning in order. When the final out was made, 22-year-old Akil Baddoo — after hitting Tuesday’s epic walk-off single — was standing in the on-deck circle. Still,
Tigers manager A.J. Hinch speaks with the media following a hard fought but razor thin loss to the Minnesota Twins. #Leinenkugels
Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers’ Akil Baddoo after walk-off single: ‘I’m glad we got the W’ Detroit Tigers outfielder Akil Baddoo reacts to hitting a walk-off single Tuesday, April 6, 2021, against the Minnesota Twins at Comerica Park. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press Detroit Tigers pitching coach Chris Fetter meets with the entire pitching
If you’d told us Matthew Boyd and the Tigers pen would hold the Minnesota Twins’ high powered offense to three runs, we would have liked our chances. Unfortunately, the Tigers ran into two outs at home plate that cost them, and they lost 3-2. Their record stands at .500 through the first two series of
DETROIT — Considering the opposition, the Tigers probably would have taken a 3-3 season-opening homestand. After all, Cleveland and Minnesota combined to go 13-7 against Detroit last year and 32-6 in 2019. Still, the Tigers would be excused if they feel like Wednesday afternoon’s 3-2 loss to the Twins was a missed opportunity for their
As part of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of Topps baseball cards, we’ve asked fans (as well as our staff) to submit their all-time favorite baseball cards, and we’ve broken them down by team. We’ll be revealing submissions regularly throughout the season, ranging from the famous to the weird, and everything in between. To