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Las Vegas – Tigers president Scott Harris, in very short order, has reshaped the amateur and international scouting departments. He’s added more muscle to the resource and development wing. He’s in the process of adding new leadership to the medical and strength and conditioning departments. He and manager AJ Hinch are close to unveiling a

Detroit — The offseason is officially upon us. It commenced Sunday with a pair of Tigers electing free agency — catcher Tucker Barnhart and left-handed pitcher Daniel Norris. The Tigers also made a very intriguing hire. According to Omaha, Nebraska-based website D1baseball, University of Iowa pitching coach Robin Lund has left to be the Tigers

Detroit — It was always going to be a tall task, plucking one shiny star out of the rubble of an irredeemably disappointing 96-loss season. And the balloting by the Detroit chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America certainly showed there was no perfect choice for the 2022 Tiger of the Year award. When

Detroit — This one has new Tigers team president Scott Harris’ fingerprints all over it. In his time in San Francisco, Harris helped rebuild the Giants’ pitching staff by taking well-researched and calculated fliers on pitchers either coming off bad years or coming off injuries. Remember, this is the man who signed Matthew Boyd last

When he ripped a pitch 459 feet Saturday for an artillery-grade home run in an Arizona Fall League game between the Salt River Rafters and Peoria Javelinas, it was tempting to think Colt Keith was probably on to something. As in strength, sourced in more muscle mass, which can happen when you’ve packed on 34

Adding to their ongoing series of organizational shuffles, the Tigers will be hunting for a new Triple-A manager in 2023. Lloyd McClendon, who was Toledo Mud Hens skipper in 2022, and who led the Mud Hens to one of their best seasons in recent years (87-63), will not return next season, according to a source

Detroit — From 2017 through 2021, the San Diego Padres could boast a farm system that was ranked in the top 10 by industry experts. The man in charge of those drafts, Mark Conner, is now the Tigers’ director of amateur scouting. The Tigers announced the hiring of Conner on Sunday. He’d been with the

On Friday, it’ll have been been 10 years to the day since the Tigers last played in the World Series. It was a frigid Sunday night in downtown Detroit in 2012, Oct. 28, when just about 10 minutes before midnight, Miguel Cabrera took a fastball right down the middle for strike three, setting off a

Detroit — Scott Harris, president of baseball operations, made it clear Tuesday that in hiring director of scouting Rob Metzler away from the Tampa Bay, he was not looking to remake the Tigers in the Rays image or anything of the sort. “We need to take steps to differentiate ourselves and Rob has done that

Detroit — The man who headed up one of the top amateur scouting departments in baseball will now be doing the same, and then some, for the Tigers. The club announced Tuesday the hiring of Rob Metzler as vice president and assistant general manager. Metzler, who spent the last 15 seasons with the Tampa Bay

Detroit — While the rest of the baseball world awaits the start of the World Series, president of baseball operations Scott Harris was busy reshaping the Tigers’ front office and training staff. Late Monday afternoon, according to sources close to the team, the Tigers and longtime front office executive David Chadd mutually agreed to part

Detroit — Tigers manager AJ Hinch, speaking at his postseason press conference earlier this month, was quick to absolve the club’s training and medical staff of any blame for the season-long rash of injuries the Tigers dealt with in 2022. But he also suggested the entire process needed to be reviewed and evaluated. Three weeks

Detroit — Jonathan Schoop on Thursday was selected as a finalist for a Rawlings Gold Glove award among American League second basemen. Schoop, who led all defenders in baseball with 27 outs above average and 20 runs above average, per FanGraphs, was named along with Texas’ Marcus Semien and Cleveland’s Andres Gimenez. “It would mean

Detroit – The Tigers shuffled the deck at the minor-league catcher position Friday. They designated Triple-A catcher Ali Sanchez for assignment and claimed 26-year-old catcher Michael Papierski off waivers from the Cincinnati Reds. Tigers president of baseball operations Scott Harris has some history with Papierski. The Giants last season acquired him from the Astros for

Colt Keith has this habit. He hits baseballs. Hard. He does it even after a four-month interlude between at-bats, in real games. Notice that on June 9, in what was his last act in 2022 as a blue-chip infielder at West Michigan, Keith was batting .301, with a heavy .914 OPS. He singled in his

Detroit — Major League Baseball has selected the Tigers’ AJ Hinch to manage a squad of Major League players in the Korea Series, which takes place Nov. 11-12 in Busan and Nov. 14-15 in Seoul. “I’m very excited to lead this group of Major Leaguers in the upcoming Korea Series,” Hinch said in a statement

Detroit – The restructuring of the Tigers front office under president Scott Harris has begun. Sources confirmed that Scott Pleis, the club’s director of amateur scouting, was fired on Friday. Pleis, hired by the Tigers in 2007, has been the in charge of the amateur draft for 12 years. The Tigers recent draft history has

Detroit — AJ Hinch already feels comfortable enough with his new boss to joke around with him. Scott Harris, the Tigers’ new president of baseball operations, was hired away from the San Francisco Giants less than three weeks ago. But his first official day on the job was Thursday, and that led to a little

Detroit — From a business perspective, changing the hitting coaches was a no-brainer. The Tigers, who scored the fewest runs, hit the fewest home runs and extra-base hits in baseball, were shut out a modern-day record 22 times and had the highest strikeout percentage and second-lowest walk rate in the American League, parted ways with

Seattle — Maybe more than just a season of abject misfortune and calamity came to an inglorious end Wednesday when the Tigers closed out 2022 with a 5-4 loss the Seattle Mariners. “It definitely feels a little bit like an end of an era,” said catcher Eric Haase. It certainly does. Since 2002, the Tigers