Bless You Boys

We’ve now passed through the final week of January (all 674563 days of it), and have arrived in February, the month that baseball returns! While the Tigers had their own exciting news late Sunday evening, there was a lot of other stuff that went down this past week. A former commissioner (who actually seemed to

The Detroit Tigers’ 2024 amateur draft may someday be known as the great arm talent draft, in contrast to Dave Dombrowski’s failed reliever draft over a decade ago. The Tigers drafted shortstop Bryce Rainer in the first round, then spent the next four picks on pitchers. They doubled back for a few position players with

On Sunday night, the Tigers came through with a pretty good free agent signing. They brought back RHP Jack Flaherty on a two-year deal that could be worth as much as $45 million if he has a healthy season in 2025 and opts into the second year of the deal. The cost does little to

The Tigers selected Madden out of the University of Texas back in 2021 with the 32nd overall pick in the competitive balance A round of the amateur draft. He was a fairly advanced college starter who threw 94-98 mph with a very pretty promising slider and decent versions of a cutter, changeup, and curveball. Right

Over the last few weeks, a little undercurrent of chatter involving right-hander Jack Flaherty and the Detroit Tigers began to percolate. Now it has come to fruition as Jeff Passan reports that the Tigers and Flaherty have agreed on a one-year deal at $25 million with a player option for $10 million available to him

Friday marked the one-year anniversary of Colt Keith’s long-term contract with the Detroit Tigers. The six-year deal, complete with contract escalators and three option years that could take the deal to nine years and as high as $82,000,000, while guaranteeing $28,642,500, was pretty well received, and promoted by the team as part of a new

Once upon a time, many years ago, in the sweltering heat of a Kansas City summer, I tossed a ball to Phil Coke, and he very obligingly signed a baseball for me. Now, being a fool, the only pen I had with me was ballpoint, and the signatures I collected from Coke (and Gene Lamont!)

Jackson Jobe stayed atop the prospect rankings in 2024, and Jaden Hamm was the breakout pitcher of the year in the system, but don’t forget about right-hander Troy Melton. After a major breakout season in 2023, Melton had a quieter year tackling the Double-A level, but there is still plenty to like in his game.

Per a report from John Heyman on Wednesday, and confirmed by Ken Rosenthal, the Detroit Tigers and former New York Yankees reliever Tommy Kahnle are nearing a free agent contract. The 35-year-old right-hander has had some issues with walks in recent years and is coming off a down year. He would make a good project

Since taking over the Detroit Tigers from Al Avila, Scott Harris has done an outstanding job building up the farm system. While he hasn’t done much to address the active roster, the acquisition of shortstop Trey Sweeney was one trade that bridged the gap between those two goals. He’s technically still a prospect per Baseball

The Detroit Tigers haven’t done a whole to improve the team this offseason. We’ve spent a lot of time talking about and waiting on an Alex Bregman signing announcement with one of his suitors. Maybe they’ll surprise us, but in the meantime, other opportunities to improve could slip away if they aren’t careful. Staring us

Welcome to the final week of January! Hard to believe we’re already here and that baseball will be back (in some capacity) next month! The past week has been a bustling one, with the biggest story of the week being the Hall of Fame announcements, and we’ll get into the three new Hall of Famers

Despite a flurry of different Houston Astros related rumors, the last weekend in January passed without any movement on the Alex Bregman front. Speculation that the Houston Astros were trading reliever Ryan Pressly turned out to be true, and the right-hander is now a Cub. However, this didn’t end up saving the Astros all that

Much was made of the Detroit Tigers’ starting pitching depth entering the 2024 season, but as is so often the case, they needed all of it and then some. In the process, one of their less heralded pitching prospects, left-hander Brant Hurter, stood out above the rest. Hurter was outstanding in a relief role. The