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Toledo Mud Hens 4, Omaha Storm Chasers 3 (box) Eduardo Rodriguez had no trouble carving up the Storm Chasers in his rehab start, but after the bullpen blew a save, it was Spencer Torkelson coming through with a walkoff blast. The Storm Chasers are now down 3-0 in the six-game set. Rodriguez was nearly untouchable,

On Thursday afternoon, the Detroit Tigers tried to avoid a three-game sweep at the hands (and bats, and feet, and gloves) of the Cleveland Guardians. They almost did, but after a late comeback to tie the game in the ninth, Cleveland scored in the top of the tenth and held off the Tigers to win

The Detroit Tigers are looking to avoid a series sweep at the hands of the Cleveland Guardians Thursday afternoon, but that’s not what most of the fan base is talking about following an eventful Wednesday for the organization. No, I’m not talking about the rather lackluster call-up of Kerry Carpenter, who struck out three times

On one of the more momentous days this organization has had in the last eight years, no one would blame you for forgetting that there was still a game to play. That’s right, folks, the call up of the International League’s Player of the Week in Kerry Carpenter absolutely set the world on fire. Pause

If it felt like the last bit of air was leaving the room last Tuesday as another trade deadline passed with quiet resignation from general manager Al Avila’s front office, your insight served you well. Two veteran players on their way out the door anyway were shipped off for minimal returns. The last major date

Well the time has finally come. After seven years, Executive Vice-President of Baseball Operations and General Manager, Al Avila, has been fired by the Detroit Tigers. We had an inkling this was coming, but it’s still surprising to see that Team President Chris Ilitch has decided to make the move. The Tigers announced the move

The Detroit Tigers’ 2019 draft class may ultimately be remembered as the best of Al Avila’s tenure as general manager. Sure, much of that has to do with Riley Greene, but the Tigers’ amateur scouting department also landed several outstanding late-round picks in this draft as well. On Wednesday night in Detroit, the latest product

Toledo Mud Hens 5, Omaha Storm Chasers 4 (box) Omaha got off to a fast start in this one, dropping three runs on Elvin Rodriguez, including a pair of home runs, in the first inning on Tuesday. He settled in from there to surprisingly go five more innings, all of them scoreless, to keep the

The Detroit Tigers faced off against a familiar rival from the Cleveland Guardians on Tuesday night, looking to try and find some success against Shane Bieber despite his career dominance over them. Bieber and the rest of the Guardians instead pushed the Tiger’s scoreless innings streak to seventeen innings before they decided to be kind

The Cleveland Guardians roll into Detroit on Tuesday night to kick off a three game series against the Tigers. The Guards currently sit one game behind the Minnesota Twins for first place in the American League Central Division and are a game and a half out of the third and final AL Wild Card spot.

On Sunday, FanGraphs’ David Laurila wrote in the site’s weekly notes article asking whether Detroit may offer A.J. Hinch its general manager position as successor to Al Avila in the future. Avila has been the Tigers’ general manager since 2015, a seven-year timespan over which I have graduated high school, graduated college, and started and

Toledo Mud Hens 10, Iowa Cubs 6 (box) Daniel Norris blanked the Cubs for four innings and Kerry Carpenter celebrated his 30th long ball of the year with a grand slam to take the deciding game of this seven-game set. Norris allowed just one hit, striking out three over four innings of work. By the

A really well pitched game on both sides for eight innings was spoiled by a total collapse from Gregory Soto in the ninth that turned a scoreless game into a complete rout for the Rays as they took the four-game set with an 7-0 victory on Sunday. Matt Manning led the way for the Tigers,

The Detroit Tigers came through on Sweet Lou Whitaker’s special day with a convincing 9-1 win over the visiting Tampa Bay Rays. Garrett Hill played with fire over 5 2⁄3 frames but managed to surrender just a single run — a solo home run — in an outing reminiscent of his solid major league debut,

I’m going to keep this one short and sweet, mostly because a bunch of the BYB staff were at the park for the meet-up, and the focus for the day feels like it should mostly stick with Lou Whitaker’s jersey retirement. That said, there was a game, and the Tigers must have felt like the