Tigers Fan Blogs

The big day is finally here. Opening Day in Detroit, and we’re going to have a good time. It doesn’t hurt that the season begins with the foe the Tigers will need to take down to ever reclaim control over the AL Central. With the Chicago White Sox first on the docket, the intensity level

Major League Baseball has returned to us after a long, long winter of discontent. With the regular season about to get underway, it’s time for our yearly exercise in futility. The longer many of us have covered the game, the more apt we become to just throw up our hands and scream about the various

Spencer Torkelson is a Detroit Tiger. That sentence was exciting enough when he was drafted, but now it’s real. The man called Tork is debuting for the Detroit Tigers on Opening Day. The future is here. The last time there was this much excitement around a debut there was a trio of top prospects who

After a long and tumultuous offseason, MLB Opening Day is finally close. Tigers enthusiasts far and wide have already put in their personal request for this Friday — myself included — and for the first time since at least 2017, a noteworthy portion of the Bless You Boys staff and community have legitimate belief in

The Detroit Tigers added a shiny new toy to the middle of their lineup this week, acquiring Austin Meadows from the Tampa Bay Rays. The one-time All-Star (2019) is best known for his big bat, something he flashed early in his career as a former top prospect in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. He was traded

After Tuesday’s victory over the New York Yankees, the Detroit Tigers were scheduled to meet up with the Baltimore Orioles for the Grapefruit League finale on Wednesday. Instead, the two clubs decided to just call the whole thing off. The reason? A lack of available pitchers. That lack of available pitchers could plague the Tigers

While most of the minor leagues don’t open until Friday, April 8, the same as the major leagues, the Triple-A level will begin play on Tuesday. Listed rosters aren’t totally finalized yet, other than the Triple-A edition, and even that will likely change quickly once all levels start play on Friday. So expect to see

Well there was a fair bit of speculation over the weekend as to whether the Tigers would make a move to shore up the outfield with Riley Greene down for as much as two months or more. There didn’t appear to be much available in the center field department, but the Tigers found another path

If you put Tucker Barnhart and Eric Haase side-by-side, they look pretty similar. Both a bit under six feet tall and near 200 pounds. Strong beard game. Bona fide Midwesterners. The main way to tell them apart is their eye color: Barnhart’s are a steely light bluish-grey, while Haase’s are dark brown. Of course Barnhart

Hopes for a playoff push from the 2022 Detroit Tigers are going to require significant improvement from the pitching staff to sustain them. Part of that improvement should come from the addition of Eduardo Rodriguez to the starting rotation. But if the Tigers are really going to be a threat this season, improvement from their

We spend a lot of time in the offseason talking about composing the best possible roster. When spring camp arrives, debates over which players will win which roles is a prominent topic. And then, as they seem to every year, most of the roster decisions end up getting made by circumstance, as injuries shape the