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Lakeland, Fla. — The conversation before the game centered around the relative weight of spring training performance on roster evaluations and the balance between young players earning spots vs. keeping them on their development track. “Are you talking about Parker?” Tigers’ manager AJ Hinch said with a knowing smile. “Sounds like that’s where you’re headed.”
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Lakeland, Fla. — Beau Brieske isn’t going to let whatever role he ends up playing this season define him. He’s a pitcher, period. “That’s the conversations we’ve had,” Brieske said Sunday, referencing his talks with Tigers’ pitching coach Chris Fetter and his staff. “No matter what situation you are in, you have to remember you
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Lakeland, Fla. — From the beginning of spring training, Tigers manager AJ Hinch cautioned against making hasty judgments about players early in camp. The evaluation process will be long, he said, and will involve a lot more than performance data from the exhibition games. Watching 6-foot-7 right-hander Trey Wingenter pitch against the Cardinals Tuesday brought
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Lakeland, Fla. — Pretty sure we can put PitchCom-gate to bed now. After calling all his pitches in his previous spring start, Tigers lefty Eduardo Rodriguez pitched 3.1 scoreless innings Wednesday in the Tigers’ 2-1 win over the Washington Nationals and he worked in true collaboration with all aspects of game-calling. “It’s always going to
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The Lansing Lugnuts, one of the state’s three affiliated minor-league organizations, will be sold. Diamond Baseball Holdings, which owns multiple minor-league teams across the country, has agreed to purchase the High-A affiliate of the Oakland A’s, the team announced Wednesday morning. DBH also announced its commitment to Lansing, which has been the home of the
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