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Associated Press  |  The Detroit News The Cleveland Indians sold side-arm reliever Adam Cimber to the Marlins for $100,000, and Miami designated right-hander José Ureña for assignment. Ureña, the Marlins’ opening day starter in 2018 and 2019, spent six seasons with the Marlins and had been with them longer than any other active player. He went

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit – Guess how many relievers in the major leagues last season inherited at least 11 runners and stranded them all? That would be one. And he pitched for the Tigers. It was quite a rookie season for right-hander Bryan Garcia. He posted a 1.66 ERA (four earned runs

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit – In the recent past, Tigers general manager Al Avila has made good use of the non-tender deadline to trim payroll. Catcher James McCann and reliever Alex Wilson are just two examples of that. And yet, in a year where teams are expected to non-tender and send more

Tony Paul   | The Detroit News Bob Miller, a Detroit native who was a pitcher for the legendary 1959 Philadelphia Phillies “Whiz Kids” team that lost to the New York Yankees in the World Series, and and after his playing career returned to his alma mater, University of Detroit, to coach baseball for nearly four

Lynn Henning   | The Detroit News Maybe this worked out, after all. In a year when we were advised to keep Thanksgiving on the light side, minus the usual stream of friends and family who otherwise arrived at noon for drinks, more drinks, and at some point dinner, all the privacy a pandemic imposed in

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit – When Drew VerHagen said goodbye to his family and girlfriend in January, he figured he’d see them again in a couple of months. He had signed to pitch for the Nippon Ham-Fighters of the Japan Pacific League. He would send them plane tickets to Sapporo when he

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit – The Tigers on Friday placed four young pitchers on the 40-man roster, effectively protecting them from being taken by another organization in the Rule 5 draft on Dec. 10. Right-handers Matt Manning (the No. 3-ranked prospect in the system), Alex Faedo (No. 10) and Alex Lange (unranked),

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit — Since collecting his $2.85 million signing bonus from the Tigers in July 2019, 17-year-old outfield prospect Roberto Campos has bought his parents a home near the Tigers’ baseball academy in the Dominican Republic. He’s worked out nearly every day, refined his diet and transformed some of the baby fat

Associated Press New York — Mets second baseman Robinson Canó was suspended for 162 games by Major League Baseball on Wednesday after he tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug for the second time in his decorated career. The 38-year-old Canó will miss the entire 2021 season and lose $24 million in salary. The eight-time All-Star hit a

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit – It was supposed to be a happy, congratulatory Zoom conference, and for the most part it was. In a span of two days last week, Tigers infielder Jeimer Candelario became for the first time a father (his wife Andreina gave birth to a baby girl) and Tiger

Andrew Seligman  |  Associated Press Chicago — Listening in on fans’ conversations during his walks home from Wrigley Field, Theo Epstein could sense their excitement as the Chicago Cubs set themselves up to capture that long-awaited World Series championship. It was as if they were all in it together. “It felt like the lines between fans and

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit — Gene Roof can remember the first time he laid eyes on Christin Stewart. It was on the backfields at the Tigers’ training complex in Lakeland, shortly after the Tigers drafted Stewart in the first round in 2015. It became instantly clear the powerfully-built kid from Tennessee was drafted

Lynn Henning   | The Detroit News It pounds away like Miguel Cabrera in the batting cage, this thought that persists two weeks after the Tigers and AJ Hinch came together, much because of what might go down as a historic, four-hour dinner at the Hyde Park steakhouse in Birmingham. Chris Ilitch was at that dinner

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit – This is the lone downside to restocking the farm system as quickly and effectively as the Tigers have done over the last four years: Eventually you end up with more quality prospects than you can protect on the roster. The Tigers are facing that reality this week.

Steven Wine  |  Associated Press Miami — Kim Ng became the highest-ranking woman in baseball operations in the major leagues when she was hired Friday as general manager of the Miami Marlins. Ng is believed to be the first female general manager for a men’s team in a major professional sport in North America, the

Chris McCosky   | The Detroit News Detroit — His coaching staff is all but set, minus an assistant hitting coach. He’s reached out to most of the veteran players, starting, of course, with Miguel Cabrera and Matthew Boyd. Since last September, when he knew he’d be interviewing for the job in Detroit, he’s been breaking down

Ben Walker  |  Associated Press New York — Atlanta Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman easily won the NL MVP award Thursday, topping off a trying year that saw him become so ill with COVID-19 he prayed “please don’t take me.” Chicago White Sox slugger José Abreu earned the AL MVP, a reward for powering his team

Lynn Henning   | The Detroit News Baseball life is about to change at Fifth Third Field in Comstock Park, just north of Grand Rapids. That quaint club known as the West Michigan Whitecaps is growing up. It is expected to drop its old low Single A minor-league designation and its personality as a kind of

Ben Walker  |  Associated Press New York — Atlanta Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman easily won the NL MVP award Thursday, topping off a trying year that saw him become so ill with COVID-19 he prayed “please don’t take me.” Chicago White Sox slugger José Abreu earned the AL MVP, a reward for powering his team

Detroit – AJ Hinch knew it was coming. Of course he did. The minute he hired former Dodgers first base coach George Lombard to be his bench coach in Detroit, he knew he’d have to answer the inevitable question about the 2017 World Series. It’s what we call in the journalism business “low-hanging fruit.” Or