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Arlington, Texas — It was just a single. A lousy base hit to right field leading off the seventh inning of a game the Tigers were already well on their way to winning. But it was more than that. It was a real-time illustration of some of the points manager AJ Hinch has been preaching to

Arlington, Texas — As opinions go, this one is going to be unpopular. Possibly scorned. Mocked even. Hopefully, you will at least hear me out. On Tuesday, Tigers manager AJ Hinch said if catcher Jake Rogers plays competitively at all the rest of this season, he expects it will be as a designated hitter. Coming off Tommy

Detroit — Turns out, it was just a matter of breaking the seal. Giants right-hander Logan Webb was cruising along, holding the Tigers hitless for 4.1 innings. Then Jeimer Candelario, hitting under .200, decided enough was enough. With the defense shifted to the right side of the infield, Candelario made a decided effort to inside-out his swing

Detroit — The Tigers have never made it a point of emphasis, at least not until recently, to build their roster to fit the spacious confines of Comerica Park. If a player’s skill set happened to be a good fit — gap power, speed — it was usually a happy accident. Victor Reyes is one

By Ronald Blum |  Associated Press New York — Every major league team will play each other in the same season for the first time next year as the sport switches to its first balanced schedule since 2000. As a result of the format switch agreed to in the March lockout settlement, high-profile games between division rivals such

Major League Baseball released its 2023 schedule on Wednesday and the Detroit Tigers will open the season on March 30 at Tampa Bay. After three games against the Rays, the Tigers will stay on the road with a three-game series against the Houston Astros before hosting the Boston Red Sox in the home opener on April 6

Detroit — September is lurking. Teams can add two players to their active roster: a pitcher and a position player. Among the questions being debated among Tigers manager AJ  Hinch and his staff is whether first baseman Spencer Torkelson would be best served finishing the year in the big leagues or continuing to work through his issues at Triple-A

Detroit — Maybe the Giants, playing in National League and on the West Coast, hadn’t got the memo about Willi Castro’s throwing arm. If not, he delivered it in person Tuesday night. In the fifth inning of the Tigers’ 3-1 loss to the Giants at Comerica Park, Mike Yastrzemski tagged and tried to advance to second base

Detroit — Maybe the Giants, playing in National League and on the West Coast, hadn’t got the memo about Willi Castro’s throwing arm. If not, he delivered it in person Tuesday night. In the fifth inning of the Tigers’ 3-1 loss to the Giants at Comerica Park, Mike Yastrzemski tagged and tried to advance to second base

Detroit — While we are busy adding things to the new general manager’s to-do list, even though there remains no timetable to the actual hiring of a new GM — he or she can thank us later — the Tigers this offseason will be facing some potentially thorny questions regarding which prospects to protect from the Rule 5

No firm timetable has been disclosed by the Tigers. But a team’s need to put a new general manager in place, with some immediacy, hints at a probable September hire, as the Tigers cast a broad national net in their hunt to replace Al Avila as front-office chief. Some names have emerged, as the Tigers

Detroit — You wonder about a reliever’s mindset sometimes. They all, to a man, talk about being fearless. But character is revealed more through deeds than words. Alex Lange does the deeds. The latest case in point was Saturday night against the Angels. The Tigers had just taken a one-run lead and starter Tyler Alexander soldiered

According to popular Tigers fan-lore, the Jackson Jobe thing just wasn’t working out. Not ideally. His stuff allegedly was “backing up.” Competition in professional baseball was unmasking an overhyped pitching prodigy who last year exploited prep kids from Oklahoma. Admit your mistake, Tigers, a sizable chuck of Detroit’s audience implored. Acknowledge that you blew it

Johnny B. Wockenfuss, a super-utility player and fan favorite among the early 1980s Detroit Tigers teams whose unique batting stance was mimicked on sandlots all over the state of Michigan, has died. He was 73. Wockenfuss, a Tiger for 10 years before he was traded away on the eve of the 1984 World Series-championship season,

No one sells him short. No one makes assumptions. All because Dane Myers is the Tigers farm-hand story that with time gets better and better. Part one: Myers is a pitcher at Rice University, good enough in 2017 to win a sixth-round draft stab by the Tigers. Part two: The pitching dream, by 2019, isn’t

Detroit — Before his first at-bat of the game, Tigers’ leadoff hitter Riley Greene usually has a brief consult with manager AJ Hinch. “I will say, ‘Should I take or swing?’ And he’ll say, ‘Go ahead and swing it,'” Greene said. “Today I didn’t talk to him. I just decided I was going to do

According to popular Tigers fan-lore, the Jackson Jobe thing just wasn’t working out. Not ideally. His stuff allegedly was “backing up.” Competition in professional baseball was unmasking an overhyped pitching prodigy who last year exploited prep kids from Oklahoma. Admit your mistake, Tigers, a sizable chuck of Detroit’s audience implored. Acknowledge that you blew it

Detroit — It wasn’t as if Robbie Grossman shined a light on an organizational issue the Tigers were blind to. They’ve known that they lag behind other organizations in some aspects of player development, which is why over the last three-plus years they’ve invested millions of dollars into sports science and technology. Clearly, as was

Detroit — The Saturday attendance at Comerica Park was 23,581 — thousands more of which, certainly, came to see Shohei Ohtani than, say, Victor Reyes, Kody Clemens or Tyler Alexander. But Reyes, with a two-out, go-ahead single and a fine diving catch, and Clemens, with a double and single coming off the bench for an injured Jonathan

Detroit — Robbie Grossman had two home runs in 320 plate appearances with the Tigers this season. He had two homers in his first 30 plate appearances with the Atlanta Braves since the trade earlier this month. And Tigers fans aren’t going to be happy hearing Grossman’s explanation. According to an article this week in The Athletic,