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Kahlil Watson of Wake Forest High School in North Carolina is one of many talented prep shortstops in this year’s draft class. He is committed to North Carolina State, but is unlikely to reach campus with such high draft stock. Despite the flooded field, Watson is still projected to go in the top ten.

Detroit Tigers fans were encouraged to see the statline from Matt Manning, who pitched his best start so far for the Toledo Mud Hens, and John Valente busted out the shades for the Erie SeaWolves. Matt Manning earned his first Triple-A win and Toledo hit four home runs in the 10-2 win over the Louisville…

Tigers left fielder Akil Baddoo bats against Mariners pitcher Marco Gonzales during the second inning on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, at Comerica Park. Tigers 2021 Detroit Tigers after 60 games…where do we go from here? by Michael Sicilia

Our old friend Ernie Harwell once called Detroit Tigers closer Todd Jones “The Roller Coaster” for his up and down theatrics that regularly occurred before celebrating Tigers victories, or at times agonizing over tough defeats.

The Detroit Tigers are now a month deep into a stretch of quality, competitive baseball. That seemed impossible after a 9-24 start in which they sported an ugly -74 run differential, but since May 8th the Tigers are 16-10, and they’ve outscored their opponents 118-102.

The Double-A affiliates of the Detroit Tigers, the Erie SeaWolves, are sitting pretty with a 20-10 win-loss record and just a mere 2.5 games behind Baltimore’s Double-A affiliate, the Bowie Baysox; and there is a lot of talent worthy of a promotion to Triple-A Toledo.

It was moving week on the farm as members of the four full-season Detroit Tigers affiliates started changing locations. For some it meant promotions, but for others it was, sadly, the end of their time in the organization.

In one of the final moves by David Dombrowski made as Detroit Tigers GM, on July 15, 2015, he traded Joakim Soria to the Pittsburgh Pirates for JaCoby Jones, who was playing the infield for the Altoona Curve.

“How the heck did 5 teams pass on THAT guy?!?” When Rocker took the bull by the horns in 2019 and was the primary juggernaut driving the Commodores to a College World Series he was easily the most highly anticipated player for his eventual draft year in 2021. The man pitched a legendary 19 strikeout…

We are churning out the 2021 MLB Draft content here at Motor City Bengals as part of Draft Month, but today we offer the first of four historical pieces by looking back at the Detroit Tigers’ history of drafting high-school players.

The Detroit Tigers minor league system on Sunday saw the Mud Hens bullpen step up and provide a clutch performance against Memphis, Andre Lipcius have a strong day for Erie and Riley Greene with another multi-hit game.

For Detroit Tigers fans who are looking for the next player for the farm system to come up and provide a spark to the offense, Yariel Gonzalez is a name based on reading the box scores or our respective Tigers Minor League Report.

The Detroit Tigers, who have seen injuries to the pitching staff already to Julio Teheran, Urena, and Spencer Turnbull over the weekend, took another blow with Michael Fulmer heading to the IL with a right shoulder strain.

Toledo Mud Hens infielder Kody Clemens fields a ground ball against the Nashville Sounds on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 in Toledo, Ohio. Toledo Mud Hens Detroit Tigers: Eric Haase is on fire by Chris Brown The Detroit Tigers got some help from former Toledo Mud Hens catcher Eric Haase yesterday in their win over the…

Detroit Tigers catcher Eric Haase hit two home runs today, giving him seven on the season in just 70 plate appearances. Every season is full of surprises, and Eric Haase being one of the hottest hitters in baseball certainly qualifies. It’s far too soon to declare Haase the next J.D. Martinez, but that doesn’t mean…

Simple questions don’t always have simple answers as much as we’d prefer them. A possibly meaningless throwaway line in a mock draft released this week did spur this question: Are the Tigers looking at this upcoming third overall draft choice as a chance at a big hack at a home run selection or looking to…

The Detroit Tigers minor league system has seen some recent promotions across the board and a few of them made their impact on Friday night. In a bullpen start for Toledo, Ian Krol and Angel De Jesus, fresh from his call up from Erie, combined for four innings of scoreless relief, striking out five but…

(Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images) While the Detroit Tigers’ season hasn’t been favorable to this point, there are plenty of spotlights to emphasize and a lot to like in Motown. If there’s one thing the city of Detroit prides itself in, it’s not ceasing under a bit of adversity, and the Detroit Tigers will look…

Prior the the season, the team at MCB released our Detroit Tigers top 20 prospects list. Our plan is to update the list after the draft to give a better idea of the industry consensus on how each prospects relative value has changed. However, in the meantime, we now have about a month of additional…

Every Friday, I will be discussing a pitching “sleeper” for the Detroit Tigers in the upcoming 2021 MLB Draft. Today’s sleeper is a local kid out of Saginaw Heritage, Spencer Schwellenbach, who just won the Big Ten Baseball Player of the Year award and second-team All-American.