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Hitting a baseball is a very difficult task. Switch hitting is an even harder task to accomplish. Two different swings to tune up, change, and try to grow. When done well it eliminates some of the difficulties that come when facing same handed pitchers. Orioles’ outfielder Cedric Mullins was a switch hitter, but ditched that

I love this game. This may seem strange because I’ve been a Tiger fan all my life, and the Tigers lost this game to a hated division rival. This bounced Detroit out of the playoffs in 2009, and while the Tigers probably would’ve faced a similar fate the Twins did in the Division Series against

Major League Baseball remains at a standstill, but the Detroit Tigers did add five talented youngsters to the organization on Saturday. Traditionally, international signing day, the first day of the international signing period for the year, was set in July, but the pandemic bumped it to January, where it remains for the time being. There

Welcome to the TigerDome? It isn’t as farfetched as you might imagine. Once upon a time, there were whispers of a new Tiger Stadium that would have featured a dome. One eagle-eyed history buff shared the throwback newspaper article on Twitter and it got us wondering about this would-be TigerDome. Anyone who lived in Detroit

It wasn’t too long ago that the Detroit Tigers world was abuzz for Casey Mize, Tarik Skubal, and Isaac Paredes to make their major league debut. Two of those three stuck immediately despite struggling in 2020, and then improved substantially in 2021. It was Paredes who didn’t seem ready through a short 108 plate appearance

International Free Agency is something the Detroit Tigers have recently starting investing more heavily into in recent years. In the Mike Ilitch years it was rarely a major focus for the organization, though they did land their fair share of undervalued gems anyway. However, since the advent of the bonus pool system, the Tigers have

When Eric Haase came to the Tigers just before the start of the 2020 season, his career was on thin ice. As a 27 year old without a real prospect pedigree who had never seen the major leagues for more than 10 games in a season, the Tigers were able to pick him up from

Things have remained quiet on the collective bargaining impasse over the past six weeks. While the owners, league, and the MLBPA have largely refrained from much sniping in the press, the fact remains that the owners had little interest in even beginning meaningful talks until the players could feel spring training bearing down on them.

Hitting dominates the top part of the Tigers prospect list right now with names like Spencer Torkelson, Riley Greene, and Dillon Dingler, but they aren’t the only ones. There’s some upside to numerous bats throughout the organization. On the other hand, in terms of depth, this is the side of the equation where the Tigers

With every prospect list comes the questions of who just missed the cut. Here at Bless You Boys, we don’t like to keep you guessing whether your secret prospect obsession is among the notables in the organization. With that in mind, here are five pitchers that just missed making our top 30 Detroit Tigers prospects.

Over a month has passed since Major League Baseball’s owners locked out the players and abruptly cut off negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), freezing all player transactions at the same time. The Athletic reports that the owners are preparing to finally make an offer to the players some time before the end

The 2021 minor league season held plenty of surprises, and the Detroit Tigers had their share. Returning to action after the cancellation of minor league ball in 2020, players had been largely out of sight for 18 months, and much changed in the prospect landscape behind the scenes. The Tigers can look no further than

Welcome to our top 30 prospect rankings for the Detroit Tigers’ farm system in 2022. While the players are still locked out by MLB owners, and there is little on that front to report, the show must go on anyway. The time is right to talk prospects while we wait for word of a breakthrough

The Rule 5 Draft can be summarized as, “Teams try to find a diamond in the rough.” If you’re unfamiliar with the process, it goes like this: if you’ve been playing in the minor leagues for four years (or five, depending on your age when you were drafted), and you aren’t on your parent club’s

The Detroit Tigers have gone through a lot of changes over the past year, and nearly all of them have been for the better. From the major league club’s renewal under new manager A.J. Hinch, to the influx of blue chip prospect talent from the farm system, suddenly a lot of things are going right

Do you have some things you need to change in your life come January 1st? We should all eat better, work out more, spend more time offline with friends and loved ones, and read more books, presumably. But what about our fair baseball club’s players? What sorts of resolutions should the Detroit Tigers themselves make,

The 2021 Detroit Tigers will not be remembered as a team that clapped an enormous amount of home runs by current standards— they finished 24th in the MLB with 179 bombs — but they had many that are worth revisiting. It’s also interesting to note that back in 2012, at the peak of their four-year

Here at Bless You Boys, we strive to provide you with insightful, well-written, and informative coverage and analysis of the Detroit Tigers baseball team. I can assure you, I put my best effort into my sentences to make sure this is well-written. As for the other stuff, look, we’re going on a month of a

With major league baseball still on lockdown through the holidays, there still isn’t much to report from around the league. Negotiators from league owners and the players association met briefly last week, but mainly to hash out some technical details as opposed to core economic issues. And so, we wait. Unfortunately, the most notable news

The Detroit Tigers offered shortstop Carlos Correa a 10 year contract valued at $275 million, according to Buster Olney of ESPN. While Correa remains unsigned during the owners’ lockout of the players, the Tigers moved on by signing Javier Báez to a six year, $140 million contract. Correa was the clear favorite of Tigers’ fans