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Detroit – Everything seemed normal. Matt Manning completed his pregame warmup and bullpen session Wednesday night ahead of his scheduled start against the Royals. He walked back into the dugout surrounded by catcher Eric Haase and pitching coach Chris Fetter and slapped hands with the bullpen pitchers as they crossed paths. Just like always. Then,

Detroit — There will come a time relatively soon when every outing isn’t a classroom for Joey Wentz. Maybe as soon as next season, it will be more about whether he executed or not and less about what he can take out of the experience. For now, though, there are lessons to be learned and

Detroit — The only person who was able to stop Harold Castro Tuesday was Javier Báez, who tackled him behind the mound after Castro slapped the game-winning single in the bottom of the 10th inning in the Tigers’ 4-3 win over the Kansas City Royals. Castro got up, ran past the on-field interview request of

Hurricane Ian’s churning path toward Florida has ended the Tigers’ plans for Instruction Camp, which began last week and was to extend through Friday at their TigerTown complex in Lakeland, Florida. The Tigers have discharged all 45 players who had been invited for drills and specific instruction. They were sent home beginning Monday when it

Detroit — It sounds counterintuitive but stay with this. The next frontier for Tigers right-hander Matt Manning, the way he sees it, is getting more swing-and-misses and more strikeouts in his game. And one of the ways to get there is to throw his best pitch less often. Told you. Sounds daft. But it’s not.

Detroit— There is a fire that burns inside Tigers lefty Joey Wentz. There has to be. You don’t climb the minor-league ladder for six seasons, get knocked back by the dreaded, if inevitable, Tommy John surgery and still fight your way to the big leagues without an intense competitive flame. But it’s like the pilot

Chicago — The White Sox’s playoff dream is dead. The Tigers officially ended their ill-fated run, completing the three-game sweep at Guaranteed Rate Field with a 4-1 win Sunday. It was the sixth straight home loss for the White Sox and the first Tigers series sweep in Chicago since 2018. “Best trip of the season,”

Chicago – For most of the season, the public narrative around Javier Báez was some version of, “We’re stuck paying this guy $140 million for the next five years? What the heck are the Tigers going to do now?” Now that Báez has heated up and begun to flash the dynamic, game-changing skills that attracted

With the minor-league regular season in the books, Detroit News contributor Lynn Henning takes a look back some of the highs and lows from the Tigers’ farm system. ▶ POSITION PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Colt Keith, Single-A West Michigan: Says everything that a player who went down June 5 with a shoulder separation ranks as

Chicago – At the end of the night, the Tigers were still anchored at the bottom of the Central Division, long, long out of the playoff chase. But that doesn’t mean they can’t still have some fun. And there was plenty to enjoy in their 7-2 win over the free-falling Chicago White Sox Saturday night

Chicago – For more than a month now, it looked like Tigers reliever Joe Jimenez had an electronic stimulation device fused onto his back. If you saw him walking through the clubhouse, invariably, his right arm was heavily wrapped and the stimulation device was strapped on, lights flashing. And now we know why. The Tigers

Chicago – The White Sox came into the game Friday with their playoff hopes not completely torn but frayed badly after being swept at home by Cleveland. They trailed the Central Division-leading Guardians by seven games and were 6.5 games out of wild card contention beginning play Friday. But having beaten the Tigers 12 out

Chicago − Three hours before the game Friday and reliever Jose Cisnero was already in full lather. “It’s not my call, it’s their decision on when they want to use me,” he said, still sweating from his pre-game workout. “But I prepare myself to be ready on a daily basis whether they call my name

Baltimore, Md. − Under different circumstances, maybe manager AJ Hinch would have pulled starting pitcher Matt Manning after five laborious innings Wednesday night. But one of the chores left for the Tigers this month is to squeeze as many healthy innings as they could out of the second-year right-hander who missed more than three months

Baltimore, Md. – It started with a triple against the Astros. A couple nights later against the White Sox he tripled again. He also walked, stole a base and scored twice. On Monday he delivered a key two-run single against a left-handed pitcher that triggered a five-run inning. He again scored twice, both times racing

All he did in 2022’s regular season was pitch in 29 games, 21 of them as a starter for Double-A Erie. He threw a hefty 127 innings. He had a 2.63 ERA and an 0.94 WHIP. He had a terrific year. And yet his name, Chance Kirby, remains, well, more in the farm system’s back-40

A day after the Tigers unveiled their new front-office chief, Scott Harris, the brunt of their on-field baseball staff was to check in Wednesday for a one-week Tigers Fall Instructional Camp at the TigerTown complex in Lakeland, Florida. About 45 players from the Tigers farm will gather with roughly 40 Tigers staffers for drills and

Baltimore — Tigers manager AJ Hinch called his new boss Monday night. “I told him, ‘Your first night on the job and you already fixed us,’” Hinch said, joking about the 11-0 win over the Orioles on Monday. “Already off to a good start.” The coaching staff and players watched the live stream of new president of

Detroit — The Tigers’ new leader seems bright and earnest and forward-thinking. He’s young but experienced. He understands the scope of the task and clearly isn’t intimidated by it. In philosophy and demeanor, Scott Harris is precisely what the Tigers needed. In reality, we’ll see, as always. He’s only 35 and hasn’t been fully in charge

Baltimore — Joe Jimenez and Javier Báez have been through this before, trying to keep their heads in the game when their hearts are 2,000 miles away. Not that it ever gets easier. “I’m talking to my family all the time,” Jimenez said before Tuesday’s game. “Trying to stay focused on baseball, of course. That is our job.