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Joy! Happiness! Baseball is back! And while we are still in the “Spring Training games don’t count” portion of the season, it’s so delightful to see baseball happening! As a result of baseball being back, so is baseball news and there was quite a bit to go down last week, from some big changes by

The Detroit Tigers remained undefeated with a 4-0 victory over the New York Yankees on Sunday. Casey Mize’s first outing looked pretty solid, and Dillon Dingler’s scorched two-run homer in the fourth inning was the big difference maker in this one. Jace Jung added a pair of doubles and Colt Keith chipped in two hits

The Grapefruit League calendar started off with a nice throwback to the Detroit Tigers 2024 stretch drive on Saturday. They were in an early hole, but the bullpen shut down the Phillies and the Tigers farmhands forged a comeback that ended with a Justice Bigbie walkoff single. On Sunday, they’ll make their televised debut on

Detroit Tigers pitchers struggled to throw strikes for a while in this Grapefruit League season debut, and the Phillies took advantage to build a 6-0 lead. The bullpen then locked them down the rest of the game while the Tigers’ minor league hitters put together a comeback. In the end, Justice Bigbie was the hero,

The Detroit Tigers draft philosophy is has gone through some big changes since Scott Harris took over in late fall of 2022. The scouting leadership of VP Rob Metzler and director of amateur scouting, Mark Conner has favored a much more prep heavy approach and the early returns on their first two draft classes have

Baseball season comes one step closer today as the Detroit Tigers welcome in the Philadelphia Phillies for the first Grapefruit League matchup of the 2025 season. Dan Dickerson will be on the call for the first Tigers radio network broadcast of the season at 1:05 p.m. ET from Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium in

When former Detroit Tigers’ general manager, Al Avila, hired A.J. Hinch in November of 2020, the move felt like the real beginning of a new era. Somehow we’re now entering year five of his tenure as manager and Hinch is on his way to becoming a Detroit institution. Over four seasons, Hinch has been the

It won’t be long before we start seeing games played in Spring Training, and while the age-old phrase “Spring Training games don’t count” may be true in terms of standings and stats, it’s not entirely unimportant. Spring Training is a time for managers to try out new techniques, like more aggressive baserunning, stealing drills, testing

We discussed Javier Báez recently, but he isn’t the only the long-term Detroit Tigers player in real need of a reversal of fortune. Matt Manning will mark his ninth year in the organization this July. Things haven’t been trending in the right direction for him, and the club has a lot of talented young pitchers

The hopes and dreams for the future of the Detroit Tigers are built around a core group of young players who have worked their way up through the ranks and have landed, or will soon land in Detroit. At the center of that core group are two players who stand out more than any others;

Spring Training has arrived and the full squad of 2025 Detroit Tigers are in camp this week preparing for their first Grapefruit League matchup of the season. On Saturday, the Tigers will welcome in the Philadelphia Phillies with Kenta Maeda getting the start at 1:05 p.m. ET. The offseason didn’t go quite as hoped, but

The big names playing with the Lakeland Flying Tigers in 2024 were Max Clark, Kevin McGonigle, and Josue Briceño, but quite a lot of other talented players started to make a name for themselves as well. Two of our favorite young rising pitching prospects were on hand, and while we’ve covered Rayner Castillo already, southpaw

One player we didn’t talk a lot about this offseason was Detroit Tigers shortstop Javier Báez. Another woeful offensive season battling injuries progressed to the point that even his defense suffered in 2024. His year ended quietly with arthroscopic hip surgery that he’s only now fully rehabbed. The Tigers went to the postseason with Báez

In Part 1 of this two-part series we reviewed the setup to a September stretch run that ultimately ended up with the Tigers back in the playoffs for the first time in a dog’s age. We also looked at the games in the first half of the month which, for the most part, went pretty