Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. – The Tigers on Thursday agreed to terms on a minor-league deal with veteran right-handed reliever Wily Peralta. Eventually the 31-year-old will join the Tigers’ big-league camp, but he is sorting through visa issues. MLB Network’s Jon Heyman, who first reported the deal, said Peralta would earn $1.5
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Jeff Seidel | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — He has been here before. This is where it happened. Right in Joker Marchant Stadium. AJ Hinch was a member of the Cleveland Indians in 2003, getting ready to play a spring training game against the Detroit Tigers in Lakeland, when he was walking from the bullpen
The Red Sox announced this afternoon that they’ve claimed righty John Schreiber off waivers from the Tigers and placed left-hander Chris Sale on the 60-day injured list to open a 40-man roster spot. The Sale move shouldn’t come as a shock, given that he underwent Tommy John surgery on March 30 last year. It was
Recent seasons have seen a bunch of exciting new aces make the leap, like Dinelson Lamet and Corbin Burnes in 2020 and Shane Bieber and Lucas Giolito in 2019. Let’s figure out who might be next. MLB.com convened five reporters to draft 10 breakout pitcher candidates for the coming season — five from the American
Teams began to open Spring Training camps on Wednesday, the first on-field step toward the launching of the 2021 season. While the initial focus will be on new faces in new places — Nolan Arenado with the Cardinals, Francisco Lindor with the Mets, Yu Darvish and Blake Snell with the Padres — there also are
Reliever Joe Jimenez says that he’s confident the Tigers will take another step forward this season because of the pieces they added during the off-season. #TigersST
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — Joe Jimenez doesn’t fully understand. His struggles for the Detroit Tigers in 2020 were products of a dip in fastball velocity, getting hit hard when he lost control of his slider and rarely using his changeup. Then, suddenly, everything improved. “Something clicked,” said the 26-year-old Thursday, the second
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. – Yes, AJ Hinch likes versatility. He likes options both with his starting lineup – a day to day lineup, not an everyday lineup. Yes, he’s not big on setting hard-and-fast job descriptions, especially with his bullpen and certainly not in February. But don’t get it twisted. “I don’t
Tigers pitcher Buck Farmer says that he’s working on becoming more confident throwing his slider-curve, so he doesn’t fall into that two-pitch mix of fastball and change-up. #TigersST
The Kid could do it all! He is the next player we are honoring as we continue Black History Month. Ken Griffey Jr. was magnetic. His swing is one of the best ever. Watch as take a look back at his best home runs from each year. Don’t forget to subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/MLBClassics Follow us elsewhere
The Tigers have signed right-hander Wily Peralta to a minor league contract with an invitation to big league camp, Jon Heyman of MLB Network tweets. The deal comes with a $1.5MM base salary and up to $300K in incentives. This is the first we’ve heard about Peralta in quite some time, as he didn’t surface
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla — The Detroit Tigers have signed veteran right-hander Wily Peralta to a minor-league contract with an invitation to spring training, a source with knowledge of the agreement told the Free Press on Thursday night. The 31-year-old will compete for a job in the starting rotation but could shift to
The Tigers added to their pitching depth Thursday by agreeing to terms with veteran reliever Wily Peralta to a Minor League contract with an invite to Major League Spring Training, according to a source. The 31-year-old Peralta will make $1.5 million if he makes the Major League roster, with another $300,000 possible in incentives, according
Detroit Tigers outfielder JaCoby Jones should have plenty of points racked up on Training Table Rewards Players Card. Two broken hands. A scary hit by pitch in the jaw. Various minor ailments including strains to a hamstring, shoulder, and oblique. In between there has been some stretches of an exciting baseball player, along with many…
Buck Farmer’s hair, from the chia beard in the front to the party mullet in the back, is the image of a rebellious reliever from yesteryear, like he could’ve brawled with a slugger back in the day. So maybe it was fitting that Farmer was called into the manager’s office after one day of Spring
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — It can’t be right. Buck Farmer is entering his eighth big-league season with the Tigers? It seems like just yesterday he was jumping four levels of the farm system and making his big-league debut for the last Tigers playoff team in 2014. “It is kind of mind-boggling
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — Manager AJ Hinch hasn’t seen every member of the Detroit Tigers’ bullpen throw yet, considering Thursday’s pitcher-catcher workouts included the second of three groups of arms. But he was willing to talk about the construction of his staff on the second day of spring training. Plenty needs to
The weather has been cold and snowy for weeks in Michigan, and people are stuck inside. But just as the winter doldrums seem unending, the Tigers’ annual trek to Florida for Spring Training is here to get us through it. Pitchers and catchers have reported to Tigertown in Lakeland, Fla., and the full squad is
As the Bless You Boys staff prepares to dive deeper into the prospects on our top 30 prospect list, there are numerous prospects debated for the final few spots who were close but didn’t make the list. After outlining five players who just missed, there are still others worth highlighting, particularly as they’ve been largely