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Los Angeles — Tigers outfielder Austin Meadows is as routine-oriented as any player in the Tigers’ clubhouse. His set routine, which he follows religiously, doesn’t allow much time before or after games to chat with the media. Fortunately, his teammates and manager don’t mind talking about him. “He’s just an all-around great player,” Tigers outfielder

If the subject is bad breaks, Ryan Kreidler can now speak. From experience. He ran into a bad one Tuesday evening at Omaha during a game between Kreidler’s guys, the Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens, and the Storm Chasers, as they’re known, who that night were chasing more of a cold front that descended on Nebraska,

Small samples can be larger samples, in context, which is why it was worth noting Dillon Dingler had a better last week of April. He had a home run. He had a double. Four hits, total, in five games, to go with a pair of walks. He had an .852 OPS spanning five games. And a warmer

Los Angeles – Javier Báez doesn’t exactly know what he’s done to incur the wrath of Dodgers fans. He suspects it has something to do with the 2016 National League Championship Series, when he hit .318 and slugged .500, earning MVP honors and helping the Cubs beat the Dodgers. “That’s my guess,” he said. “I

Los Angeles — The Tigers, like most teams across baseball, will have to make painful cuts on Monday when roster sizes go back to 26 players. At least one of those cuts will involve a reliever and if you haven’t noticed, one of the few areas the Tigers have exceeded expectations so far this season

Los Angeles — The weather was warmer Friday night, but the Tigers’ bats remained cold, losing 5-1 to the Dodgers in their first game in Chavez Ravine since 2014. It was their sixth straight loss. The lone run came in the third on a two-out single by Javier Baez. It was the only inning the

Los Angeles — More tough roster decisions are coming for general manager Al Avila and manager AJ Hinch. When the Tigers get back to Detroit following the weekend three-game series against the Dodgers in Los Angeles, rosters will have to be trimmed back to 26 players. Because of the shortened spring training, Major League Baseball

Los Angeles — On Thursday, Miguel Cabrera conducted an interview in Spanish via video conferencing with a group of Venezuelan reporters. In that interview, as translated by M-Live’s Evan Woodbery, Cabrera said he would like to remain a part of the Tigers organization even after his playing days are over. “I hope I can achieve

Arlington, Texas — Kyle Tucker hit a tiebreaking pinch-hit homer in the eighth inning and the Houston Astros beat the Texas Rangers 3-2 in a series finale that began as an impressive duel between starting pitchers. Tucker’s two-run blast came off Matt Bush (0-1), the first reliever for Texas after left-hander Martin Perez took a perfect

Minneapolis — You try to keep things in perspective this time of year. If you jump ship in April, you might miss some sunny days and smooth water later in the summer. At this time last year, remember, the Tigers were 7-11 and would free-fall to 9-24 before righting the ship. Still, it’s hard to look

Minneapolis — It wasn’t that awfully long ago that Beau Brieske was paying for tickets to go to Chase Field so he could watch Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers beat up on his hometown Diamondbacks. He won’t need a ticket Saturday. He will be starting for the Tigers against Kershaw and the Dodgers in Los

Minneapolis — Max Kepler apparently didn’t get the memo about how the baseball isn’t flying in the cool air this season. The Twins’ right fielder continued his assault on Detroit pitching Wednesday night, hitting a pair of solo home runs as the Tigers dropped their fourth straight, 5-0. “We have not done a good job

Minneapolis — Eric Haase, as you might expect, spent a restless night Tuesday going over and over the crazy play that gave the Twins a 5-4 walk-off win. He watched it from every available camera angle, even the wide view from over home plate. He thought through his options, what he might’ve done differently. He

Minneapolis — You can’t blame hitters for being at least a little frustrated by it. Hitting a baseball is as hard a skill to master as any in sports. So when you do square one up, you’d like to be rewarded with maximum ball flight. And as any hitter will tell you, the balls aren’t flying

Minneapolis — They don’t come any stranger than the Tigers’ 5-4 loss to the Twins Tuesday night on a chilly night at Target Field. The Tigers had valiantly taken a 4-3 lead in the top of the eighth on a three-run homer by Javier Báez. But by the time closer Gregory Soto took the mound in

Minneapolis — Missing most of spring training and the first two and a half weeks of the season hasn’t much helped Andrew Chafin’s acclimation to the Tigers. “I’d be lucky to name half the guys in here if you lined them up without their jerseys on,” he said before the game Tuesday. “But we’re getting there.

Minneapolis — A little peek inside Austin Meadows’ active and astute hitting brain. Saturday night at Comerica Park, ninth inning of Game 2 against the Rockies and the Tigers are trailing 3-0 with two runners on, down to their final out. Meadows, inserted into the game in the seventh, is grinding against slow-paced closer Alex Colome,

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Detroit — You can understand something, totally get where it’s coming from, but still not love it. Tigers’ reliever Jason Foley was feeling that Sunday morning after he was pulled into manager AJ Hinch’s office and told he was being optioned to Triple-A Toledo. Asked it the move surprised him, he said, “Yeah, I think so.”

Detroit — Don’t call it a milestone hangover. Just don’t. “No, we didn’t play well,” manager AJ Hinch said after the Tigers were beaten by the Colorado Rockies 6-2 in the rubber match of the three-game set Sunday, losing two straight after celebrating Miguel Cabrera’s 3,000th hit. “It’s nothing about energy. There’s no excuse, no