We all know the drill. Don’t get too excited about spring training. For the past three seasons, that’s been pretty easy for fans of the Detroit Tigers. However, as the better prospects are beginning to make their presence felt, and the 2021 roster is fortified with a decent selection of veteran players and reclamation projects,
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Time: 1:05 p.m.Place: LECOM Park, Bradenton, Fla.Media: MLB.TV (Pirates’ feed), Tigers Radio NetworkPitching Matchup: RHP Casey Mize vs. RHP J.T. Brubaker Spencer Torkelson, Riley Greene and Dillon Dingler on today’s travel roster for Tigers, who face the Pirates at 1:05 in Bradenton. Casey Mize gets the start. pic.twitter.com/VXlVZrzoQY — Jason Beck (@beckjason) March 2, 2021
Yesterday we looked at three Statcast standouts from the first Detroit Tigers spring training game of the season. We won’t be doing this for every game…but it’s kind of fun when the young players and prospects are in camp, so let’s give it another whirl!
As a Rule 5 draft pick, with limited experience in the upper minors, Akil Baddoo faces an uphill battle to make the 26 man roster. But, for a rebuilding team looking to add depth and talent, the Detroit Tigers have every intention of giving him a chance to stick.
Detroit Tigers prospect Alex Faedo had probably heard the whispers in college from those worried that his herky-jerky three-quarter slot may end up leading to injury. Despite some efforts by the team and Faedo to clean things up with his motion, that forecast by the draft and college baseball gurus, unfortunately, became a reality in…
Kirkland Crawford| Detroit Free Press Grapefruit League: Detroit Tigers (1-1) vs. Pittsburgh Pirates (1-0) When: 1 p.m. Tuesday. Where: LECOM Park, Bradenton, Florida. TV: None. Radio: WXYT-AM (1270; other radio affiliates). First-pitch weather forecast: Cloudy, 79 degrees. Probable starting pitchers: Tigers RHP Casey Mize (0-3, 6.99 ERA in 2020) vs. Pirates RHP JT Brubaker (1-3, 4.94
The Detroit Tigers have been remarkably consistent over the past four seasons. The team has posted winning percentages of .395, .395, and .397 in three of those seasons, the only outlier being their .292 percentage in 2019. The Tigers sunk to the bottom of baseball in 2017 and have failed to improve since then. Tigers’
Jeff Seidel | Detroit Free Press TAMPA, Fla. — Alan Greene glanced at the scoreboard in George M. Steinbrenner Field, scanned the batting order and realized his son, Riley, was about to come up to bat for the Detroit Tigers. Alan was watching the game on Monday afternoon with a group of friends — and one
Though a tad bit over-long and sanitized for the family-friendly Disney crowd, The Rookie is a surprisingly effective dramatic effort. The film is buoyed by Dennis Quaid’s considerable talent, a strong supporting cast, believable baseball sequences, and just enough realness to take off the typical saccharine Disney shine.
Lynn Henning | The Detroit News Editor’s note: This is the first in a weekly series of stories in which Detroit News freelance writer Lynn Henning will rank the top prospects in July’s MLB Draft. Not that the Tigers are being overly picky, but if the kind of hitter who can bash good pitching happens to
We hear from manager A.J. Hinch after his Tigers drop a 5-4 decision to the Yankees on Monday. #TigersST
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — Manager AJ Hinch didn’t exactly pull punches when he was asked about where right-hander Kyle Funkhouser stood in the Tigers’ pitching plans. “He is in that gray area right now in between Triple A and the big leagues,” Hinch said last week. “He got a little taste
TAMPA, Fla. — Sacred Heart University, a school in Fairfield, Conn., with an enrollment of around 8,500 students, has produced one Major League player: Troy Scribner, who pitched in 11 games for the Angels and Diamondbacks in 2017 and ’18 after going undrafted. As the Tigers took the field for the bottom of the sixth
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press TAMPA, Fla. — Detroit Tigers catcher Dillon Dingler was getting heckled by fans when he entered the game in the seventh inning as a pinch hitter. And then, they started cheering for him. That’s because the 22-year-old — without a professional game under his belt — dropped in a double. Yet
Manager A.J. Hinch wasted no time in seeing what type of arms he has in the Detroit Tigers bullpen in today’s 5-4 loss to the Yankees down in Tampa. Let’s take a look at how they did. Funkhouser started the game for the Detroit Tigers and pitched just one inning, allowing a pair of walks…
TAMPA, Fla. — Riley Greene swung through Gerrit Cole’s first-pitch 98 mph fastball so hard that his helmet fell off. It wasn’t a surprise for a 20-year-old top prospect facing a perennial Cy Young Award contender. What followed also wasn’t a surprise for Greene, who has consistently played with a maturity beyond his age since
TAMPA, Fla. — It’s a long shot. Detroit Tigers outfielder Akil Baddoo, at the center of the dilemma, knows it. Manager AJ Hinch knows, too. General manager Al Avila understands the track records of Rule 5 draft picks aren’t strong, but he wanted to take a chance on someone with big upside this winter. So, Avila selected Baddoo
Lynn Henning | The Detroit News Editor’s note: This is the first in a weekly series of stories in which Detroit News freelance writer Lynn Henning will rank the top prospects in July’s MLB Draft. Not that the Tigers are being overly picky, but if the kind of hitter who can bash good pitching happens
Tyler J. Davis | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers’ Tyler Alexander ‘felt good’ in spring training debut Detroit Tigers left-hander Tyler Alexander talks Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, about his first Grapefruit League game. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press Grapefruit League: Detroit Tigers vs. New York Yankees When: 1:05 p.m. Where: George
It’s the last day of February, but the first day of spring training games. Caught in this crossroads, JaCoby Jones is at no loss for words. Whether it’s calling out a teammate for his Call of Duty boasts, or recapping a successful infield hit with his first base coach, Jones has a spring in his