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Detroit — What teams around baseball knew would happen is happening. Starting Monday, as Major League Baseball informed clubs on Friday, teams will be required to carry 13 pitchers and 13 position players for the remainder of the season. The league twice extended the deadline and allowed teams to carry an extra reliever. The Tigers

Detroit — The future is now for Tigers outfielder Riley Greene. The Tigers called up their top prospect Friday from Triple-A Toledo and he’ll be in Saturday’s lineup to make his debut against the Texas Rangers at 4:10 at Comerica Park. Greene suffered a broken foot just before the start of the season and he’s

Detroit — It was just a couple of weeks ago. Eric Haase had been rung up on a pitch well below the strike zone. There were runners at second and third early in the game. He was understandably frustrated afterward, but he was also more empathetic than most would have been. “These are the best

It can be said with authority that this is the most insane season of baseball in Tigers history. Research it to death. In what other year did a Detroit team lose 80% of its starting pitching — in April and May? In what other season that a rotation was ravaged did the Tigers also lose, at

Detroit — A bona-fide pitcher’s duel broke out at Comerica Park Thursday night. Texas’ veteran left-hander Martin Perez and Tigers’ rookie righty Beau Brieske traded zeros for five-plus innings. Perez was keeping the Tigers off balance with a mix of changeups, sinkers and cutters. Brieske limited the Rangers to three singles, expertly locating sliders and

Detroit — The Tigers clubhouse remained closed for at least 30 minutes after the game Wednesday. After being swept at home by a depleted White Sox squad, losing the finale in humiliating fashion 13-0, having to use three position players to cover the final three innings on the mound, it was time to clear the air.

Lakeland, Fla. — In the spring of 2009, at the grizzled age of 17, Avisail Garcia was playing right field in Single-A games for the Tigers. It was impressive, imposing, status for an adolescent. It also was part of ancient history, as it were, for the Tigers and for MLB teams that had seen Venezuela as

Shohei Ohtani, a once-a-century, two-way talent from Japan, shines among MLB’s superstars in 2022, working for the Los Angeles Angels. Ohtani’s countryman, Ichiro Suzuki, began his long and majestic MLB career in Seattle, later moving to New York and Miami. Hisashi Iwakuma, a star pitcher who threw a no-hitter before he hurt his shoulder in

Lakeland, Fla. — Tom Moore holds his right hand high (figuratively) and testifies to what he believes is truth about the Tigers’ youngest cast of Latin American talent. “We feel we have the best collection of international players we’ve had,” said Moore, who directs international operations and scouting for the Tigers. “I will say, just looking from

Detroit — There are 100 games remaining in the regular season, Tigers fans. That’s not a threat. Just a fact. But so is this, after AJ Hinch’s team reached another low-water mark Wednesday with an embarrassing 13-0 loss to the Chicago White Sox: It’s a salvage operation now. That’s all you can say after the

Detroit — One of the truly remarkable traits of Tigers manager AJ Hinch is his ability to face each day with renewed vigor and belief. Even on a steamy morning like Wednesday, with only a fast, fitful, few hours of sleep after another agonizing loss the night before. He sat in the dugout with the assembled

Lakeland, Fla. — Inspect the Tigers’ run-starved, victory-thin roster in June of 2022 and it puzzles why so few international names, signed originally by Detroit, now play for manager AJ Hinch’s crew. There are two: Gregory Soto, who is the team’s closer. Harold Castro, who is more a backup than starter. The Tigers own the worst offense

Detroit — The questions are becoming redundant because the narrative isn’t changing. The answers are getting more terse because the narrative isn’t changing. The frustration is growing because the narrative isn’t changing. “I feel like I answer this question every single day,” said catcher Tucker Barnhart. “It’s tough. Other than that, I don’t really know

Detroit — Asked if he was comfortable with his role coming back after a stint on the injured list, Tyler Alexander shrugged. Reliever, starter, what does it matter at this point? “I’ve always done that, right?” he said. Yep, he’s the proverbial Swiss Army knife and he will continue to be now that his elbow is

Detroit — It’s never as dark as it seems. Light is always just one win away. But it sure feels like the light is pretty far down the track right now for the Tigers. They were beaten by a depleted Chicago White Sox team, 9-5 on a rainy Monday night at Comerica Park — a

Detroit — A year ago at this time, it was fair to wonder why the Tigers hadn’t cut ties with reliever Joe Jimenez. The one-time All-Star, coming off two rough seasons, didn’t make the roster of spring training and then struggled mightily once he did get called up, walking 15 in 8.2 innings and posting

Detroit — The Tigers are going to be without left-handed starter Eduardo Rodriguez indefinitely, and not because of an injury. The club announced before the game Monday they had placed Rodriguez on the restricted list. He will not be paid during his absence and he does not count against the 40-man roster. “Eduardo Rodriguez has informed

Detroit —  A cruel summer keeps getting crueler for the Tigers, with no remedies in sight. One thing you figured you could count on was the promise of young arms, but one prized pitcher, Casey Mize, is gone for a year-plus with Tommy John surgery. Another, Matt Manning, has an ailing shoulder that’s progressing slowly.

Detroit — Up until the fourth inning Sunday, this was shaping up as a most memorable day at Comerica Park. It was MiggyFest and as they typically do, the Tigers produced a wonderful tribute honoring Miguel Cabrera for achieving the 3,000-hit and 500-home run milestones. Manager AJ Hinch and former Tigers’ All-Star catcher Alex Avila gave

You notice progress, ever so slightly, in each of Jackson Jobe’s successive starts in 2022. Jobe threw a season-high five innings Friday at Dunedin and got the victory as Single-A Lakeland whipped the Dunedin Blue Jays, 7-1. In those five innings, a 19-year-old, right-handed starter a year out of high school, allowed four hits and