The last time Tigers manager A.J. Hinch reported to Lakeland, Fla., for Spring Training, he was being traded. He was greeted by Tigers official Al Avila back then, too. Hinch was actually in camp with the Indians, who back in 2003 trained minutes away in Winter Haven and faced the Tigers a handful of times
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Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers’ AJ Hinch talks pitchers and catchers on report day Detroit Tigers manager AJ Hinch checks in Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, before the first pitcher-catcher workout at spring training in Lakeland, Florida. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers manager AJ
How does one measure the change of seasons, or acknowledge the return of spring? Do you set your clock by the groundhog’s February 2nd announcements, or are you a “first robin” believer when it comes to spring? Those of us in snowier climates often wait for all the white stuff to begin before we’ll concede
Miguel Cabrera is one of the greatest Detroit Tigers ever. He’s among the franchise leaders in Batting Average, Hits, Doubles, Home Runs, Runs Scored, RBIs, and WAR. In his 13 seasons with the Tigers Miguel Cabrera has been to seven All-Star games, earned five Sliver Slugger Awards, taken home two MVP Awards, and become just…
Evan Petzold, Darcie Moran | Detroit Free Press Detroit Tigers pitcher Daniel Norris says, jokingly, he’ll play center field if that’s what it takes to start this year. The man wants to play baseball and he’s felt that way throughout the novel coronavirus pandemic, even sneaking out to throw balls against a chain-link fence in
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — Matt Manning is ready for his MLB debut. Detroit Tigers general manager Al Avila isn’t making guarantees, but he is optimistic the prized right-handed prospect will arrive in 2021. Assuming the 23-year-old doesn’t break spring training on the Opening Day roster, expect him in Triple-A Toledo to begin
The offseason is drawing to a close, and the Bless You Boys staff have knocked off the ice and are throwing it into Spring mode. That means our prospect content rollout is a full go, and I get to write my favorite article of prospect season, examining the guys who didn’t crack our top 30
In preparation for the 2021 season, MLB.com will go around the horn and compare where each team in the AL Central stands at each position in advance of what could be the closest division race in years. It’s a tight-enough race that the club with the most production out of the middle infield could determine
Welcome to the first installment of the Motor City Bengals Top 20 Detroit Tigers prospects. The MCB staff has compiled our prospect lists and we will be releasing our consensus rankings, along with a breakdown of each player, in a series of articles in the coming days. Today we look at the Detroit Tigers’ second-ranked prospect and 2020’s…
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press It all happened so fast. The Detroit Tigers were in the middle of a March 12 spring training game in Lakeland, Florida, when some players began to pack their bags. This wasn’t unusual. Spring training allows for added relaxation, unlike the regular season. The locker room culture is loose. Games don’t matter much unless
By Steve Adams and Connor Byrne | February 16, 2021 at 9:45pm CDT Jake Odorizzi is the top name left from MLBTR’s Top 50 free agent rankings, and it’s still not clear which (if any) team will meet the right-hander’s reported multi-year asking price. Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch writes in his latest
The executive vice president of baseball operations and general manager of the Tigers addresses the media as pitcher and catchers report in Lakeland.
Bob Wojnowski | The Detroit News Can’t see the whole story? Sign in or subscribe. You probably won’t see everything you crave from the Tigers this season. You won’t get a look at all the prized prospects. You won’t get a taste of playoff contention. You might not even get to sit in the stands, although
Ranked among the Tigers top 25 prospects by MLB Pipeline.com, Jose De La Cruz showed off the pop in his bat with this home run in the Tigers 2020 fall Instructional League. The 19-year-old outfielder was signed out of the Dominican Republic in 2018.
Monday was an unusually busy day for former Detroit Tigers players. First Evan Woodbery of MLive reported that Dawel Lugo, the former Tigers infielder who was the centerpiece of the J.D. Martinez trade, will play in the Mexican League this summer:
The Tigers went into the offseason expecting they would be busier late than early. Still, as they gathered in Lakeland, Fla., for the start of Spring Training this week to survey the roster, the scope of their recent influx came into focus. General manager Al Avila and his front office wanted to start turning a
Tigers Executive V.P. of Baseball Operations and General Manager Al Avila offers his thoughts as his ballclub opens Spring Training in Lakeland, FL, including news on Miguel Cabrera as the 2-time MVP approaches the 2021 season. Avila also has high hopes for Jeimer Candelario, Willi Castro, Isaac Paredes and JaCoby Jones among others.
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers ‘looking for more pitching,’ Al Avila says Detroit Tigers general manager Al Avila talks Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, about his team entering spring training, says they could use more pitching. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — Spring training is here, and
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — Al Avila walked out onto the field at Joker Marchant Stadium on Tuesday smiling from ear to ear. Usually when he conducts the first big-league staff meeting of the spring with his manager and coaches, it’s a tedious affair, in the stuffy board room inside the administration building,
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Can’t see the whole story? Sign in or subscribe. Lakeland, Fla. — For an essentially unanswerable question, Tigers manager AJ Hinch has certainly spent a lot of time this offseason trying to answer it. The question is how to handle workloads for pitchers, coming off a 2020 season where no Tigers pitcher