Detroit Free Press

For the 16th time this season, the Detroit Tigers will have a new starting pitcher. He is scheduled to take the mound Friday against the Chicago White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field. The name is familiar: Daniel Norris. Norris pitched for the Tigers from 2015-21 and returned to the organization in late July on a minor-league contract.

Decency has its place in life. Just not enough to keep trying to rebuild a baseball team when the footings continue to crumble. Chivalry has its limits. Christopher Ilitch has his limits, too, and on Wednesday afternoon, after seven long years of fire sales and wrong-sided trades and overhyped prospects and losing — lots and lots

Everything went downhill — and fast — in 2022. The Detroit Tigers aren’t damned, but the organization has a lot of work to do. Owner Christopher Ilitch spoke Wednesday about the past, present and future of the franchise. He mentioned the word “progress” at least 20 times. It’s apparent, based on their 43-69 record, the Tigers

Prospecting for baseball players is like prospecting for gold: lots of shiny objects, but more often empty pans. Al Avila, 64, was fired on Wednesday for too many empty pans and, in truth, not enough gold from the river. Seven years after the Detroit Tigers gave him the general manager job, they took it away.

Detroit Tigers manager A.J. Hinch spoke to the public about  an hour before Wednesday night’s game against the Guardians. He said he felt for former GM Avila — who had been fired earlier in the afternoon — the man who gave him a chance to manage when he “was on the outside of baseball looking in” and can relate because he

If I were Detroit Tigers owner Christopher Ilitch … I would met with manager A.J. Hinch and ask him a series of questions: “Who do you think should be our next general manager? Have we under-utilized internal talent? Could the next general manager be Sam Menzin or somebody else in-house? What have we been doing

TOLEDO, Ohio — Late Tuesday night, Kerry Carpenter was called into Lloyd McClendon’s office for a surprise meeting. “Did your dad die a few years ago?” McClendon, the Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens manager, asked. “Yes,” Carpenter said. Carpenter’s father, Ken, died on May 11, 2020, from a rare form of liver cancer at the age

Kerry Carpenter is about to make his MLB debut. The Detroit Tigers promoted Carpenter, who has 30 home runs in 97 games in the minor leagues this season, to the big leagues Tuesday night. The 24-year-old outfielder will start as the designated hitter Wednesday against the Cleveland Guardians at Comerica Park. To make room for Carpenter

Detroit Tigers left-hander Tyler Alexander has made seven starts this season but only three since his late-July switch from the bullpen to the rotation. In his latest outing, he pitched into the seventh inning for the first time this season. The Cleveland Guardians, though, scored once in the fifth and sixth innings, and without any support from the Tigers’

Detroit Tigers right-hander Matt Manning has two months to check three boxes: throw as many innings as possible, develop his secondary pitches and separate himself as a frontline starting pitcher for 2023. In Sunday’s 7-0 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays, Manning became the Tigers’ third pitcher this season to deliver seven scoreless innings, along with left-hander Tarik

The Detroit Tigers‘ high spending this offseason hasn’t really paid off. While the organization’s top prospects have made it to the pros, the Tigers (43-67) are second to last in the American League and at the bottom of the AL Central Division. HOW IT ALL WENT WRONG: Tigers weren’t supposed to be sellers at MLB trade

Detroit Tigers general manager Al Avila couldn’t get the trade package he desired for closer Gregory Soto at Tuesday’s deadline. Those opposing teams may feel a little better now about not relinquishing key pieces for Soto, an All-Star the past two seasons. Soto entered a scoreless game Sunday in the ninth inning, faced seven batters and retired two, with three

Garrett Hill found himself in trouble in the first inning. Bases loaded, one out. “It was a huge swing in momentum,” Hill said. The 26-year-old rookie escaped without damage, though, and despite a solo home run in the second inning, provided the Detroit Tigers with the best outing of his career in Saturday’s 9-1 win over

When Detroit Tigers manager A.J. Hinch has a chance to teach a baseball history lesson, he takes it. And so, Friday afternoon, he sat in the clubhouse with his pitchers — Tyler Alexander, Jason Foley, Tarik Skubal and Will Vest — talking about the weekend’s upcoming ceremony. He realized they knew Lou Whitaker, but didn’t know Lou Whitaker. So

Luis Castillo has waited 11 years for this moment. Triple-A Toledo manager Lloyd McClendon called Castillo — a 27-year-old right-handed reliever — into his office after Friday’s game in Iowa. The Detroit Tigers had optioned right-handed starter Bryan Garcia and wanted to bolster their bullpen after they used six relievers in Friday’s loss to the Tampa Bay Rays. The

Detroit Tigers (42-66) vs. Tampa Bay Rays (57-49) When: 6:10 p.m. Saturday. (Lou Whitaker’s No. 1 will be retired in a pregame ceremony.) Where: Comerica Park in Detroit. TV: Bally Sports Detroit. Radio: WXYT-FM (97.1) (Tigers radio affiliates). Probable pitchers: Tigers RHP Garrett Hill (1-3, 5.88 ERA vs. Rays LHP Shane McClanahan (10-4, 2.07 ERA). First-pitch forecast: Sunny, high-80s.

Saturday is all about Lou Whitaker, one of the best players ever to take the field for the Detroit Tigers, as the organization honors his legacy by stamping his first name, last name and iconic No. 1 on the Comerica Park bricks above the bullpen in left-center field. Whitaker’s spot is just to the right

On Saturday, the Detroit Tigers will finally retire the No. 1 jersey of longtime second baseman Lou Whitaker, 27 years after his retirement following the 1995 season. (Don’t worry, Joey Wentz: The No. 43 “Sweet Lou” wore during his rookie season of 1977 is still available.) It’s an honor long overdue for Whitaker, considering where

For the first time since Tommy Bridges in 1932, a Detroit Tigers pitcher completed four innings or fewer and conceded six walks or more without allowing a run. That isn’t a club Bryan Garcia wanted to join, but he became the fourth member of the club for the franchise on Friday in the second of four games against the Tampa Bay

This time, Detroit Tigers catcher Eric Haase wasn’t mowing his lawn. He was pushing his lawn mower across his backyard in early August 2021, when the organization called to inform Haase he had been named American League Rookie of the Month for July. One year later, the 29-year-old notched another award. Haase — who grew up in Westland