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A Monday morning tweet by Detroit News scribe Chris McCosky led to a minor uproar among Detroit Tigers fans on Twitter. While a few fans agreed with this take, most cried foul and immediately pointed to the wealth of Detroit Tigers owner Chris Ilitch. McCosky was accused of being a mouthpiece for the team, and…

With the exception of 2017, the Detroit Tigers have drafted a pitcher with the Rule 5 selection however, it has not stopped us from covering all of our bases here at Motor City Bengals as Chris Brown has covered corner infielders, catchers and did a brief one to two sentences of players you should get…

The Detroit Tigers and GM Al Avila enter the annual winter meetings with some specific needs to address. The club signed Austin Romine, Jonathan Schoop, CJ Cron, Ivan Nova, and Cameron Maybin all to one-year deals last winter in hopes to provide a short-term makeover to the lineup. The results were mixed with unfortunate injuries…

Only five guys have played more games at second base for the Detroit Tigers than Frank Bolling (779). He is slotted in between Damion Easley (794) and Placido Polanco (625) on the franchise’s all-time list. Bolling joined the Tigers during a period when young talent was being infused into a rebuilding team. His rookie season coincided…

It’s possible the Detroit Tigers begin the 2021 season without a new corner infielder, choosing instead to run with some combination of Jeimer Candelario, Willi Castro, Niko Goodrum, and Isaac Paredes. Who knows, perhaps Sergio Alcántara, Harold Castro, or Zack Short will impress A.J. Hinch and head north with the club?

The virtual winter meetings kick off today and go through Thursday, Dec 10. For Detroit Tigers fans, the annual winter meetings mean the Tigers will engage in some sort of activity.  Recently, the Tigers have had some rather quiet ones compared to some of the ones from the past. Contributor Jacob Boes provided his five…

It doesn’t take much conversation on Twitter with other Detroit Tigers fans to bring up topics that get a person thinking about what they have and have not seen in this baseball life…and suddenly a talk about a wood-bat summer league have you crafting a bucket list that is reasonably achievable in this lifetime.

One of our fellow sites, Reviewing the Brew, recently did an article on how Brewers GM David Stearns has done as a GM and translated his performance into a batting average. I thought it would be a good idea to do the same for the Detroit Tigers Executive VP of Baseball Ops & General Manager…

Philadelphia is the latest team looking to cut costs after the shortened 2020 season, and according to Buster Olney of ESPN, that means Zack Wheeler could be on the move: This is an abrupt about-face for the Phillies, who just climbed out of their protracted rebuild two years ago when they traded for J.T. Realmuto…

There are a few names in the 2020 Detroit Tigers summer camp that are now minor league free agents again. Dario Agrazel, Dawel Lugo, Jorge Bonifacio all saw action for Detroit during the shortened season and Frank Schwindel was in camp but was never called up and recently signed with Oakland.  Agrazel came over in…

Whitney Houston wasn’t talking about prospects in “Greatest Love of All”—  but she could have been. All organizations hope to teach their prospects well and then let them lead the way to a successful future. That process has seemingly been the main focus of the Detroit Tigers these last four years.

Aug 21, 2020; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Detroit Tigers third baseman Isaac Paredes (19) throws to first base in the eighth inning against the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field. Mandatory Credit: David Richard-USA TODAY Sports

In the Windy City, the ballpark at the corner of Clark and Addison is just as special to fans there as the ballpark at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull was to fans in the Motor City. Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs since 1916, was recently designated as a National Historical Landmark by…

Sometimes you need a metal detector to find the treasure hidden from your sight. Other times you just need to open your eyes. What do Kyle Schwarber, Eddie Rosario, Adam Duvall, and Curt Casali have in common? All were let go by their respective clubs today for nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada. All of them are better players than what…

As expected, the Detroit Tigers tendered contracts to all nine of their arbitration-eligible players. But most other teams saw fit to release a handful of players, and now the Tigers are free to sign them.

My six-year-old doesn’t particularly care about my thoughts on Detroit Tigers roster construction, let alone something as obscure as seam-shifted wake, so when we go for walks our conversations tend to veer toward the natural world. Last week he asked me why geese fly in a V formation.

The Detroit Tigers are in a position to possibly take advantage of this opportunity at a discount price. These players will hit free agency once non-tendered and the paper-thin Tigers will have positions available to entice some players with the chance to gain a full-time job.

Per MLB Trade Rumors, the Minnesota Twins put on Eddie Rosario on waivers according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. As we been highlighting for a while now in our free-agent series, the Detroit Tigers need a left fielder as we have discussed in options like Joc Pederson, George Springer, among others, and in this case,…

We’ll spare you the intrigue right now: unless there’s an injury we don’t know about, the Detroit Tigers are all but certain to tender offers to each of their nine eligible players. That doesn’t mean their cases aren’t interesting to examine. On a purely statistical basis, one could argue that at least four of these…

The 2021 MLB free agent buffet line is off to a rather slow start, but there have been some starting pitchers taken off the table with Kevin Gausman and Marcus Stroman accepting qualifying offers, Charlie Morton and Drew Smyly signing 1 year deals with the Atlanta Braves, and the Kansas City Royals inking Mike Minor…