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Detroit — It would be easy for Phil Nevin to get caught up thinking about his future. He’s wanted to be a major-league manager for a long time, and finally got his shot earlier this year when the Los Angeles Angels fired Joe Maddon. But as the interim manager, Nevin doesn’t have much job security beyond

Detroit — Here we are on the dim outskirts of Major League relevancy, far from the glare of any type of playoff race. Two teams with big aspirations coming into the season that have been similarly wracked by injuries and underperformance. The Tigers and visiting Los Angeles Angels again reduced to playing out the string

Detroit — Nobody really expected Eduardo Rodriguez to step up to the podium Friday and bare his soul. He wasn’t likely to, nor was he obligated to, share the details of the marital strife that led him to leave the team for two-plus months. But he did owe his teammates that. And that was the

Detroit — Baseball can be a cruel business at times. Shortly before 4 p.m. Friday, Tigers manager AJ Hinch summoned veteran pitcher Wily Peralta into his office and notified him that he was being designated for assignment. “He’s a pro’s pro,” Hinch said. “You hate doing that with anyone, but doing it with a guy like

The Detroit Tigers steadily had been climbing the ladder when it came to Baseball America’s farm-system rankings. The Tigers checked in at 30th as recently as 2015 and, thanks in part to lousy seasons at the major-league level producing high draft picks, climbed to as high as No. 5 in 2021. That ranking dropped, significantly,

Cleveland — How do you strike out the side, actually strike out four batters in the inning, and still end up allowing six runs to score? Welcome to Tigers baseball, 2022. “It’s not a nice game,” said Tigers reliever Andrew Chafin, who was in the middle of the ruckus in a most bizarre bottom of the eighth

Cleveland — Tigers manager AJ Hinch announced that left-handed starting pitcher Tarik Skubal had flexor tendon surgery Wednesday in Los Angeles. The surgery was performed by specialist Dr. Neal ElAttrache. “The procedure was exploratory in nature and they saw exactly what was ailing Tarik,” Hinch said. “This opens up questions on the timeline, but I have

Cleveland — Cleveland Guardians catcher Austin Hedges probably spoke for every catcher in baseball, even Tigers catchers Tucker Barnhart and Eric Haase, when he emotionally decried how Major League Baseball is deploying the collision rule at home plate. “It’s a play that’s been called a few times now recently that really has never been called before,”

Cleveland — The baseball hasn’t much bounced the Tigers’ way this season. But it did Tuesday in their 4-3 victory over the Cleveland Guardians. The Tigers won a pivotal challenge in the first inning that led to a three-run head start at Progressive Field and they prevailed on a controversial umpire’s call in the bottom of the ninth to

Cleveland — Andrew Chafin’s postgame reaction to yielding a go-ahead, three-run home run to Cleveland’s Andres Gimenez in the first game of the doubleheader Monday was, well, it was classic Chafin. “It was middle-middle,” he said. “He should’ve hit it 300 feet farther.” Actually, he was told, Statcast showed the pitch middle, but about a half

Cleveland — For different reasons, they both badly needed to see balls fly into the seats. Veteran Jonathan Schoop, mired in a season-long hitting slump, and rookie Kerry Carpenter, who was leading the minor leagues with 30 homers when he got called up and hadn’t sniffed one in the big leagues, hit homers on back-to-back

Cleveland — For different reasons, they both badly needed to see balls fly into the seats. Veteran Jonathan Schoop, mired in a season-long hitting slump, and rookie Kerry Carpenter, who was leading the minor leagues with 30 homers when he got called up and hadn’t sniffed one in the big leagues, hit homers on back-to-back

Cleveland — As a manager, you can push the right buttons and the pull the right strings and still get punched in the mouth. It happened to the Tigers and AJ Hinch as the Guardians broke a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the seventh inning to take Game 1 of the doubleheader 4-1 at Progressive

Cleveland — Jonathan Schoop can opt out of the final year of his contract with the Tigers next season and hit the free-agent market, betting on himself to do better than the $7.5 million he stands to make. He knows that. He also knows putting up career-worst offensive numbers across the board isn’t an optimal platform

A new general manager is headed the Tigers’ way, with the likelihood, if not certainty, one staffer will be sticking around, no matter who is hired. Ryan Garko is a Tigers vice president and director of player development. He is one year into a multi-year contract (length undisclosed, but think in terms of five years).

Chicago — OK, we’ll say it. With tongue firmly implanted in cheek. The Tigers have not won a baseball game since general manager Al Avila was fired. (Of course, it’s awfully hard to justify cause and effect when the team was 25 games under .500 on the day he was relieved of his duties. Still, as

Three pitching lines from Double-A Erie, all in games last week at New Hampshire, were of interest to Tigers execs charged with grooming a future pitching staff in Detroit: ► Wilmer Flores, Tuesday: 4.2 innings, one hit, no runs, three walks, six strikeouts. ► Reese Olson, Friday: six innings, one hit, no runs, one walk,

Chicago — Regret is the wrong word. “Yeah, that’s too strong,” Tucker Barnhart said before Sunday’s game against the White Sox. “But it makes you wonder.” After hitting exclusively from the left side of the plate since 2019, Barnhart decided in spring training to go back to hitting from both sides, which he did for the

Chicago – He knew the consequences. He just didn’t care. Making the point that he needed to make was worth taking an ejection for. “In a game like that, I’m going to defend the guys,” Tigers manager AJ Hinch said after he was ejected on a controversial replay ruling in the seventh inning that precipitated

Chicago — Like a lot of things he does, Riley Greene’s ability to self-assess and take accountability is beyond his years and experience level. Going into Saturday’s game he’d struck out 40 times and walked just twice in his last 108 plate appearances covering 24 games. His slash-line over that stretch was .221/.241/.356. In terms of