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Chicago — With starting pitcher Alex Faedo going on the injured list Saturday (finger soreness), the Tigers decided to call-up right-handed bulk-innings reliever Garrett Hill. That could mean the Tigers plan to deploy a bullpen game on Tuesday, which would have been Faedo’s next start. “Hill will be in the ‘pen and we will use

As low-profile Tigers farm prospects go, Corey Joyce has a place somewhere in a not-so-prominent pecking order. It’s a status with which Triple-A Toledo manager Anthony Iapoce has issues, especially when Joyce, 24, is batting .278 in 25 games for the Mud Hens, with a .402 on-base average and .883 OPS. “I really don’t think

Chicago — The Tigers’ starting pitchers in the three games against the White Sox in this series gave up four runs. Their hitters mustered three runs in 28 innings. Dissect it, break it down, analyze it any way you want, but the calculus for why the Tigers were swept out of Guaranteed Rate Field this

Two parallel problems for the Tigers today should spur some inevitable trades, whether deals happen this month, at the annual July deadline, or during the coming offseason. The Tigers will need to swap some players — from the big-league team and, as becomes more and more clear, from their farm where too many prospects are

Chicago — AJ Hinch complained about it when it happened at Comerica Park last Sunday. When it happened again on Saturday, well, it was time to send an alert to Major League Baseball. In the bottom of the 10th inning Saturday, a game the Tigers would lose 2-1, reliever Jose Cisnero had finished his warmups,

Chicago — As AJ Hinch said afterward, if you stay around this game long enough, you’re going to see all kinds of crazy things. The Tigers and White Sox played a game Saturday in which all the runs were scored on wild pitches. That, according to Elias Sports Bureau, has never happened in the live

Chicago — Nick Maton could certainly use a little emotional rescue about now and maybe going back to Philadelphia this week and reliving his World Series run with the Phillies last season will provide it. “It’s going to be sick,” said Maton, who along with Matt Vierling will be presented with their National League championship

Chicago − The baseball he threw in his three-pitch strikeout of Luis Robert, Jr., his first big-league strikeout, was already tucked away in his locker. “Pretty sure my dad is going to want to do something crazy with it,” he said, smiling. Reese Olson painted himself a memory Friday night, taking a no-hitter into the

Chicago − For the most part, the twice-weekly medical update doesn’t break much new news. It was a different story on Friday. It was a news-apalooza. Start with one of the newer entries. ∎ Center fielder Riley Greene was placed on the injured list initially with what was reported as a stress fracture in his

That little kid from the Le Pedrera barrio in Maracay, Venezuela, the one who used to race out of school every day straight to the dirt ball fields, the one who at 10 years old was hitting mushy baseballs 300 feet with his mother’s wood softball bat, the one whose talent was so obvious, so

Detroit — We don’t believe in curses, right? I mean, they’re not rooted in science or séance. They don’t explain a series of seemingly unrelated mishaps, and they generally don’t afflict one random city. But, how in the bleeping bleep do we explain this? The Tigers have been wrecked for most of a decade. And

Detroit — As manager AJ Hinch said Wednesday morning after announcing that Riley Greene was going on the injured list because of a stress fracture in his left fibula, the baseball schedule doesn’t allow for wallowing or self-pity. The games just keep coming. He said the players had a choice — they could fold or

Detroit — You wonder how much misfortune a baseball team can take in a 24-hour span. The Tigers are providing a case study. Tuesday the club announced that their best starting pitcher, lefty Eduardo Rodriguez, was going to be lost for an extended period of time because of a rupture in the A4 pulley in

Detroit — If you were watching the Tigers Tuesday night and were surprised that manager AJ Hinch moved Zack Short into center field in the fourth inning and kept true outfielder Akil Baddoo on the bench — well, you haven’t been paying attention. Since the start of spring training, Hinch and team president Scott Harris

Detroit – Traumatic Tuesday. The day started with the news that ace lefty Eduardo Rodriguez (finger) and right fielder Matt Vierling (back) were going on the injured list. Rodriguez’s absence could be lengthy, the minimum recovery time for a rupture A4 pulley is typically six weeks. But there was more. Riley Greene, who was honored

Detroit — It was an odd juxtaposition of events, to be sure. Minutes after two of the Tigers’ injured young pitching stars completed encouraging bullpen sessions on the stadium mound hours before the game Tuesday — Tarik Skubal throwing to hitters and Matt Manning throwing his second full bullpen — manager AJ Hinch told the

Being commissioner has its conveniences in professional sports, especially in baseball, no matter how inconvenient The Commish’s decisions and whims might be. Consider the MLB Draft, which this year runs July 9-11. Rob Manfred decided three years ago that All-Star Week, well into July, would be a jim-dandy time to showcase all those blue-chip college

Detroit — As Matthew Boyd said afterward, hindsight is 20-20 and it’s certainly easier to second-guess than it is to first-guess. But there was no ducking the bottom-line Monday after the Tigers were beaten by the scorching-hot Texas Rangers, 5-0, in the first of three at Comerica Park. “I threw the pitch I wanted,” he

Detroit — Matt Manning, on the injured list with a broken bone in his foot, will throw his second, full bullpen session on Tuesday and he hopes that leads to a live session against hitters next week. “Yeah, I’m going to go on the road, so maybe I’ll throw one more bullpen and then a

Being commissioner has its conveniences in professional sports, especially in baseball, no matter how inconvenient The Commish’s decisions and whims might be. Consider the MLB Draft, which this year runs July 9-11. Rob Manfred decided three years ago that All-Star Week, well into July, would be a jim-dandy time to showcase all those blue-chip college