Bless You Boys

This one may get divisive, so I will say right up front: there is no way to have one right or wrong answer for this question, only because of how baseball changes over the decades, how records are kept, and what value we use to measure a player’s worth or greatness. All of those things

While the 2024 Major League Baseball season starts to draw closer, one of the main questions of the offseason had remained unanswered. With Diamond Sports, the company that owns the Bally Sports and other regional broadcast rights, going through bankruptcy proceedings and proposing restructuring plans, it has remained a mystery whether the various networks would

The Detroit Tigers opened the 2024 international signing period on Monday looking to change their long-standing poor fortunes in talent acquisition in the international free agent market. Of course, they’ve said that for a long, long time, and whether the new front office has done so or not, we won’t know for years to come.

On Thursday, the Detroit Tigers agreed to salary terms for the 2024 baseball season with three players who were eligible for arbitration. The deadline for players and clubs to come to an agreement was 1:00 p.m. with an 8 p.m. deadline to exchange figures in advance of arbitration hearings, and so the evening was filled

The thought of bringing home JD “Just Dingerz” Martinez for a final short run with the Detroit Tigers has been on the back of a lot of Tigers fans’ minds this offseason. In isolation, it’s certainly an attractive idea. His shocking run from 2014-2017 after getting ditched by the Houston Astros and picked up for

Welcome to 2024, and more importantly, welcome to the 6-week countdown to spring training. While the offseason obviously isn’t over yet, there are still free agents on the market, still potential trades hiding up GM sleeves, I think it’s a safe time to start reflecting on how hot stove season went. In our open thread

As we arrive at the last Friday of 2023, it seems like the perfect time to take a look back at the year that was. Baseball in Detroit felt fun again, even if there were issues, and even if the Tigers didn’t have a “winning” season. In fairness to them, only one team in the

The Detroit Tigers have added a lot to their player development programs over the last few seasons, and under Scott Harris that process has only expanded. The Tigers are making another significant hire in adding former MLB pitcher and most recently the Los Angeles Angels pitching coordinator, Dylan Axelrod. The 38-year-old will hold a new

The Tigers’ offense in 2022 was offensive, and their offense this past season was only marginally less unpleasant to watch. In the two seasons, they scored 557 and 661 runs, which were good for 30th and 27th in MLB respectively. If you take into account the average runs scored per team increase of 54 from

On Friday morning, the Tigers picked up another stocking stuffer, as it were. Kiley McDaniel of ESPN first reported that the club was in agreement with veteran right-hander Shelby Miller on a one-year contract with a club option for 2025. The Tigers will pay him $3M in 2023, with a club option worth $4.25M for

Hanukkah is just behind us and Christmas is right around the corner, so it seems like the perfect seasonal time to think about some ideal wishes we would put on the Tigers’ letters to Santa Claus this year. The team has been making some fairly fun moves and they do seem open to making more,

We’re closing in on Christmas, but a somewhat slow moving offseason that was dominated for several weeks by the Shohei Ohtani pursuit means there are still a lot of top free agents left on the board. So it follows that there are a lot of teams out there whose rosters are far from finalized. The

In any established team, there’s always a guy. You know what I mean, the “guy.” He’s the most recognizable face on the team, the one you see hanging on a 100-foot-tall banner outside the stadium. He’s the one whose name is synonymous with the franchise for years and years. He may not even be the

Jeff Passan of ESPN reported on Thursday night that the Detroit Tigers and 28-year-old right-handed starter Jack Flaherty are in agreement on a one-year deal for $14M. The deal has incentives for reaching various numbers of starts in the 2024 season that could make it worth $15M total. As Scott Harris has said repeatedly this