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Detroit — For the month of April, there is one player pool the Tigers can dip into for roster reinforcements, and that is the alternate site in Toledo. The Tigers on Friday released the alternate site roster, which will largely comprise the Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens club when their season begins in May. Among the pitchers

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Detroit — It’s not normal, not yet. But oh yes, baseball as we know it is on its way back. This was the start of the slow unveiling, a comforting mix of nostalgia and newness. What could be more normal than snow flurries on the Tigers’ Opening Day? What could be more nostalgic than Miguel

Detroit — It was like watching a baseball game in a snow globe for the first couple of innings. Not that the sub-freezing temperatures and snow flurries could dampened the spirits of the 8,000 revved up fans who were back at Comerica Park for the first time since the end of 2019 season. Nor did

Detroit — It’s cold. It’s April. It’s time to start the baseball season in Detroit. The Tigers and Indians opened up to blizzard conditions. But hardy fans got things underway unofficially this morning. Though COVID-19 health precautions have restricted some of the traditional celebrations, establishments near and around Comerica Park are open to welcome anyone looking

On Thursday morning, hours before the Major League Baseball season kicked off, Circa Sports in Las Vegas released its odds for the 2021 home-run leader. Tigers first baseman/DH Miguel Cabrera was listed behind 126 other major-leaguers. His odds were +300000. Translation: Bet a little, win a whole lot. Cabrera gave bettors a reason to at least

The Tigers didn’t sell a single ticket in 2020. So Christoper Ilitch, team chairman and CEO, is quite appreciative that the state of Michigan raised the fan cap for Opening Day and the foreseeable future. The Tigers had an announced crowd of 8,000 on Thursday, and that was considered a sellout — even though it’s

Welcome back, baseball fans. The Tigers kick off their 2021 season today at Comerica Park, against the Cleveland Indians. And for the first time since September 2019, there will be fans in the stands. Follow Tony Paul and Detroit News staff for updates throughout the game. Cabrera goes deep Well, that’s one way to start

Detroit — It’s cold. It’s April. It’s time to start the baseball season in Detroit. The Tigers and the Cleveland Indians will get things officially underway at 1:10 p.m. But hardy fans got things underway unofficially this morning. Though COVID-19 health precautions have restricted some of the traditional celebrations, establishments near and around Comerica Park are

Opening Day in Detroit is the unofficial start to spring. And, boy, we’ve never needed spring more than we do here in 2021 — not after the last year we’ve had, a year of so much loss, so much grief, and so much disruption to our everyday lives. Sports returned a while ago, but the fans only recently

After six weeks of watching their shadows in the Florida sunshine, the Tigers made their annual migration north from spring training Tuesday afternoon. And when the plane landed in Detroit, they were in for a pleasant surprise. “We got in and it was like 70 degrees — it was a little bit of a teaser,” said

Detroit – Akil Baddoo walked down the steps that lead from the Tigers’ clubhouse to the dugout before the team’s workout at Comerica Park on Wednesday and for the first time looked out onto the massive expanse of manicured green lawn. For a rookie outfielder who has never played a game above High-A, it was

Lakeland, Florida – When we all have been staring too many times at masked faces the past 12 months, it was soothing to look across a Lakeland baseball field in March, 2021. Not as inspiring was studying a particular sector of the Tigers’ regular lineup. The outfield. Robbie Grossman. JaCoby Jones. Victor Reyes. On some

Detroit — For general manager Al Avila, it must feel a little bit like coming to the end of a long, dark tunnel and seeing, at last, some light. Thursday will be Avila’s 20th Opening Day with the Tigers and his sixth as the general manager. But it might well be the first one in

The last time a player wearing a Tigers uniform did it was on a Tuesday night in September 1974, at Baltimore, where a crowd that might or might not have been as large as the 11,492 listed watched a game between Detroit and the Baltimore Orioles. Leading off the Tigers’ fourth, Al Kaline stroked a

Detroit — As the Tigers begin their 2021 season, here are some intriguing storylines we will be following. The second wave One of the persistent and, frankly, unanswerable questions every team in baseball faces this season is how to govern the workloads of pitchers, especially starting pitchers, coming off a pandemic-shortened 2020 season. The Tigers have two rookies

Lakeland, Florida – Goodbye, spring camp. When the Tigers reconvene at TigerTown in 2022 they pray all the issues and inconveniences that haunted them the past year will be tucked into a pandemic’s history. No more COVID-19 masks. No more puny, socially distanced crowds at Publix Field. No more rules against stopping by a restaurant

Detroit — It was early in camp and some of the young infielders were getting a little goosey during a drill. A play was missed. One of the players tried to laugh it off and AJ Hinch, just a week into his first full-squad workouts as manager of the Tigers, lost it. He stopped the drill

Show Caption Hide Caption Tigers’ Gregory Soto: ‘I’ve got the talent to be one of the top (relievers)’ With the help of interpreter Carlos Guillen, Chris McCosky talks to reliever Gregory Soto about his 2.70 ERA and 10Ks in 6 2/3 innings in spring training. The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — They look like numbers that somehow

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