Roberto Campos is “The International Man of Mystery” of the Detroit Tigers organization. He’s been paid a lot of money but has only operated in the shadows. Welcome to the first-ever installment of the Motor City Bengals Top 20 Detroit Tigers prospects. The MCB staff has compiled our prospect lists and we will be releasing…
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Last year, I wrote up Gregory Soto for our 2020 roster preview for the 40-man Detroit Tigers roster preview and as I am typing this sentence, I feel that I am writing up a completely different pitcher.
Welcome to the first-ever installment of the Motor City Bengals Top 20 Detroit Tigers prospects. The MCB staff has compiled our prospect lists and we will be releasing our consensus rankings, along with a breakdown of each player, in a series of articles in the coming days. We kick off the list at #20 with…
The quartet of Lance Parrish, Lou Whitaker, Alan Trammell and Chet Lemon was the heart of the 1980s Tigers. (Photo credit: Mary Schroeder, Detroit Free Press) This week, I present the Detroit Tigers All Star team for the 1980-1989 decade. All Star teams for previous decades are found below: 1901-1909 1910-1919 1920-1929 1930-1939 1940-1949 1950-1959
Major League Baseball released its top-100 prospect list last night, and the Detroit Tigers did something unprecedented: The team’s official Twitter account celebrated the feat for the 2021 list, but perhaps wasn’t aware no team has ever done this, at least not on MLB Pipeline. In fact, since MLB began posting prospect lists in 2004,…
The current pitching depth situation for the Detroit Tigers among their starters is thin as they head down soon to Lakeland. While there are plans to place Daniel Norris and Tyler Alexander back into the rotation, it still leaves room to fill the void.
For any Detroit Tigers fan who is on Twitter on any given night in the last month, you probably have seen an Isaac Paredes highlight in his time in the Mexican Pacific Winter League as won a hitting title.
(Click here for links to the first three parts of “Chasing 3,000: Detroit Tiger Al Kaline in 1974”.) Kaline’s quest for 3,000 hits brought him back to where it all began on September 24. Baltimore wasn’t just where he and the Tigers began the 1974 season. Long before that, it was where Kaline began playing…
Our own Jacob Boes speculated about the Tigers potentially targeting Wilson Ramos way back in May, though for the last few weeks we’ve been wondering if the team was really content to head into spring training with Dustin Garneau as their only veteran catching option.
Recent major free agent signings around baseball show the Detroit Tigers are not interested in competing and are writing off contention for the first half this decade at least. They have tamed themselves for the foreseeable future.
The Detroit Tigers’ off-season performance is like falling asleep to see Freddy Krueger in your dreams and realizing nobody is waking you up. It feels as if the nightmare of bad baseball at Comerica Park should be played on Elm Street.
We review the Detroit Tigers draft class of 2014 and the impact on the 2021 roster today. As Patrick Mahomes carries the Kansas City Chiefs to the Super Bowl, we were all reminded on Twitter that he was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 37th round in the 2014 MLB Draft. Beyond that fun…
Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs are gearing up for their second consecutive Super Bowl appearance right now, but in an alternate universe he might be joining his Detroit Tigers teammates for the annual winter caravan.
LAKELAND, UNITED STATES: Former Detroit Tigers second baseman Lou Whitaker jokes with former Tiger, now Chicago White Sox outfielder (8), Tony Phillips, during the spring training game at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Florida, 15 March. Whitaker played 19 years for the Tigers, but was not resigned for this season. AFP PHOTO Tony RANZE (Photo…
It has now been 45 years since the advent of MLB free agency, and 44 years since the Detroit Tigers signed their first ever free agent, the flashy and loquacious Tito Fuentes. A few days ago Mike Petriello of MLB.com took a look at another former Detroit Tigers player, Max Scherzer, and wondered if he…
We are starting a series of articles reviewing the Detroit Tigers’ biggest foes will be in 2021. We start with Shane Bieber, the 2020 Cy Young Award winner. During the shortened 2020 season Shane Bieber outperformed everyone’s expectations as he unanimously won the American League Cy Young Award while being the second player in Cleveland’s…
The Detroit Tigers could use a left-handed catcher. The Oakland A’s have one in Austin Allen. Does it make sense? Let’s discuss. Since the off-season has begun, we here at Motor City Bengals have tried to come up with trade ideas that realistically, may not ever happen but would make sense for the Detroit Tigers…
The Detroit Tigers in the last month have added 14 players through minor league contacts, with a few getting minor league invites to spring training. We highlighted a few of the signings earlier in the month so let’s breakdown the most recent ones who posses something that pitching Chris Fetter could work with including the…
Mark “The Bird” Fidrych grooming the mound during his remarkable rookie season in 1976. (Photo credit: New York Times) This week, I present the Detroit Tigers All Star team for the 1970-1979 decade. All Star teams for previous decades are found below: 1901-1909 1910-1919 1920-1929 1930-1939 1940-1949 1950-1959 1960-1969 Detroit Stars: 1919-1930 In each decade,
Barring any stunning developments over the next five weeks, it seems likely the Detroit Tigers are content to go through at least one more season of bad baseball to secure another high draft pick. So now seems like a good time to check in on the progress of this draft-reliant rebuild.