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At first blush, it was one of those typical, lower-profile MLB offseason moves any team makes. But this hinted at something more intriguing, especially by a team hurting for firepower, when in December new Tigers boss Scott Harris signed a minor-league, free-agent outfielder named Diego Rincones. Rincones, only 23, was a right-handed batter, 6-foot, 175

Detroit — I’ve been carrying around these quotes from agent Scott Boras since he spoke at the general managers’ meetings in Las Vegas in November. His words struck me at the time as extremely relevant to the Tigers, and even more so since manager AJ Hinch and president Scott Harris built a 10-coach big-league faculty,

Detroit — The Tigers on Monday released a list of 22 non-roster players who have been invited to big-league camp, including a smaller-than-usual group of prospects, featuring third baseman Colt Keith (ranked No. 6 by MLB Pipeline), third baseman and outfielder Justyn-Henry Malloy (No. 7) and catcher Dillon Dingler (No. 11). Neither 2021 first-round pick

Former Detroit Tigers second baseman Lou Whitaker wasn’t up for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame this year, which was travesty enough. The election, however, of former St. Louis Cardinals third basemen Scott Rolen (and, less so, Fred McGriff), put into sharper relief the inequity that Sweet Lou’s ongoing omission represents. We don’t

The Detroit Tigers placed three players in MLB Pipeline’s 2023 Top 100 prospects list that was unveiled Thursday, though none cracked the top 50. Righthander Jackson Jobe, the Tigers’ top pick from 2021 (No. 3 overall), was the highest-ranked player on the list, checking in at No. 63. He was joined by second baseman Jace

Ryan Kryska |  Associated Press Ray Herbert, a 1962 All-Star Game winning pitcher who threw batting practice for his hometown Detroit Tigers for decades after retiring, died peacefully in Plymouth, Michigan, five days after his 93rd birthday. Herbert started his big league career with Detroit in 1950 and pitched for four teams over 14 seasons. He

Detroit — Donny Sands was 15 years old when his father died. It was New Year’s Day, 2012. Roger Sands, who served in special operations for the United States Army, was 50 and suddenly his heart stopped. The man who taught Donny how to throw and catch and hit a baseball, the man who would

Detroit — The Tigers have added another veteran infielder to an already crowded competition, signing second baseman Cesar Hernandez to a minor-league contract with an invitation to spring training next month. Hernandez, who will be 33 in May, will be entering his 11th big-league season and is coming off one of the worst offensive seasons

Detroit — Remember when the Tigers drafted Spencer Torkelson with the first overall pick in 2020 and they announced him as a third baseman? Seemed daft at the time, didn’t it? But, as we sit here today, just a few short weeks from the start of spring training, and with the Tigers still without any

Kalamazoo — It’s been 15 years since Daniel Schlereth was in college. Now, he’s going back to school, as the newest member of Western Michigan baseball coach Billy Gernon’s staff. Schlereth will serve as Gernon’s volunteer coach, and manage the pitching staff. It’s the latest coaching gig since Schlereth retired following the start of the

Detroit — The competitor lies deep within Matthew Boyd, buried beneath layers of politeness, professionalism, altruism and a genuine righteousness. He’s a good human first, a good husband and father first, a good teammate first. Make no mistake, with a baseball in his left hand, Boyd is as fierce and driven a competitor as there

Matthew Boyd was only gone for 13 months. But the Tigers’ veteran pitcher could’ve told you even then that he could see where this was all headed. And now that he’s back in Detroit, the 31-year-old lefty can tell you he was right, with still nearly a month to go before pitchers and catchers report

Detroit — Say this about Tigers catcher Eric Haase — he speaks his mind, forthrightly. He was in town Thursday, along with teammates Matthew Boyd and Matt Manning and manager AJ Hinch, taking part in a scaled-down Winter Caravan, and he was asked what he thought about the new pitch timer that Major League Baseball

Detroit — You expected the Tigers to sign a veteran first baseman this offseason, preferably one who batted left-handed. Names like Wil Myers, Eric Hosmer, even right-handed-hitting Trey Mancini were bandied about. The thought was that president Scott Harris would have to bring in someone to either platoon with or be a safety net for

What the Tigers are hoping for is that another Willy Adames evolves from the past week’s 2023 international cast of teenagers signed almost exclusively from Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. As was noted Thursday by Tom Moore, the Tigers’ longtime man in charge of international operations, Adames, the Brewers shortstop, has a higher WAR (wins

Swings are the things — in baseball, and in golf. Changes can be appealing. Sometimes, they can transform, as was the case when one-time Tigers slugger J.D. Martinez overhauled his path to big-league pitches a decade ago and became an MLB demolitions expert. The Tigers, like all teams, will suggest alterations major or minor depending

Detroit — Hall-of-Fame pitcher and three-time World Series champion Jack Morris will not return to the Bally Sports Detroit broadcast booth for the 2023 season, multiple sources told The Detroit News. Morris, 67, had been part of the Tigers’ TV booth since 2019, rotating in the analyst chair with former Tigers Kirk Gibson, Dan Petry

When he was with the Cubs in 2021 and they were at Comerica Park for a series, Anthony Iapoce was, of course, curious. He has this habit: He loves ballparks. And ballpark areas. He walked Comerica’s concourse and took in all the sights and flavors, stopping for some long moments at the six metal sculptures

Not until an international draft arrives does anything dramatic figure to change for the Tigers and their forays into Latin America and beyond. It looks as if they’ve done OK, maybe better, as Sunday’s first day of international signings for 2023 arrived. They have three players among Baseball America’s top 40 list of international talent who are

Detroit — As we sat in the Tigers’ dugout at Comerica Park Wednesday, being apprised by Tigers president Scott Harris of the new dimensions that will be in place by Opening Day, I thought I’d slip in a question about the rest of the offseason. Like, “Do you think most of the heavy lifting is