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Detroit — We don’t have all the data the Tigers have, so we can’t know all that went into devising the pitch plan for Matt Manning against the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday. We don’t know, for example, the relative weaknesses of the Rays hitters or how exactly the shape of his slider or curveball

Detroit — We don’t have all the data the Tigers have, so we can’t know all that went into devising the pitch plan for Matt Manning against the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday. We don’t know, for example, the relative weaknesses of the Rays hitters or how exactly the shape of his slider or curveball

Detroit — As he often does, AJ Hinch anticipated the question. “I actually thought I would get that question yesterday,” he said. The question: With Alex Lange’s recent control issues, will he be used in some lesser-leverage situations while he works through them? The answer, also as it usually is, isn’t that simple. “Of course,

Detroit – The Tigers are an imperfect team, certainly. The 28-3 run differential in the four previous games against the Tampa Bay Rays is a fair barometer of the gap between those two teams. But say this for them, they don’t wallow. They scrap. When they get sand kicked in their faces like they did

Detroit – The thing about throwing one pitch as much as new Tigers’ lefty Andrew Vasquez throws his slider, it’s not really the same pitch every time. “It has a couple of different faces,” said Vasquez, who the Tigers claimed off waivers from the Phillies Friday. “Sometimes it comes out differently. It just adds a

Detroit – The Tigers aren’t shutting the door on the possibility of outfielder Austin Meadows getting back before the end of the season, but with less than two months left, the odds are long against it. “He’s been getting treatment at home and he’s also traveled to a few different places to continue trying to

Detroit – This series picked up right where it left off back in St. Petersburg in the first weekend of the season, with Tampa Bay rag-dolling the Tigers. The Rays, who won the three-game set in April by a combined score of 21-3, barely broke a sweat Friday night, beating the Tigers 8-0 at Comerica

Detroit — The Tigers technically swung just one trade at the deadline, sending Michael Lorenzen to the Phillies for High-A infielder Hao-Yu Lee. But the negotiations with both the Phillies and the Dodgers helped the Tigers land a couple other players. The Tigers purchased Triple-A utility player Eddys Leonard from the Dodgers on Tuesday. And

Detroit — It was as rare a sight as you will ever see in the Tigers’ clubhouse. Jake Rogers, who is a constant source of energy, hijinks and good vibes, win, lose or draw, sat stock-still at his locker after the Tigers’ 4-1 loss in Pittsburgh on Tuesday night. He was hunched over. His head

Detroit — In 2017, former Tigers’ president and general manager Al Avila signaled the start of a rebuilding project by trading off five veteran players, Justin Verlander, J.D. Martinez, Justin Upton, Justin Wilson and his son, Alex Avila. From those trades, one player remains with the Tigers: catcher Jake Rogers. On Thursday, the Tigers released

Detroit — More details have emerged about the nixed trade that would have sent Tigers’ lefty Eduardo Rodriguez to the Dodgers ahead of the trade deadline Tuesday. There is added context but the narrative remains largely unchanged. The teams agreed to a deal Monday night and presented it to Rodriguez and his agent Gene Matos,

Pittsburgh — Before the game Wednesday afternoon, Eduardo Rodriguez was in front of his locker, doing some stretching, engaged in an animated and jovial conversation with Javier Báez and Jose Cisnero. He didn’t look like a man who had just made a potentially career-changing decision. “I didn’t expect there to be any lingering stress or

The Detroit Tigers were unable to move starting pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez to the Los Angeles Dodgers before Tuesday’s MLB trade deadline, but they still acquired a player from the National League West Division leaders. The Tigers landed infield prospect Eddys Leonard from Los Angeles for cash considerations. Leonard will be assigned to Triple-A Toledo. Leonard,

Pittsburgh — If you happened to check out the lineup Wednesday for the Tigers’ Double-A affiliate in Erie, you might have been alarmed at the starting battery. Alex Faedo got the start and Donny Sands was behind the plate. They were not demoted from their Triple-A assignments. Nothing like that. With Triple-A Toledo playing in

Pittsburgh – Having to play a game on trade deadline day is a challenge. It’s not easy to keep your head in the scouting reports and the game plan while you’re scrolling through your social media platforms to see if you or your teammates get traded. “Yeah, today is a hard day for everybody,” said

Detroit – It was a done deal, and then it wasn’t. And in the final hour before baseball’s trade deadline, Scott Harris got a brutal lesson in the art of deal-making. The Tigers’ president of baseball operations, less than a year on the job, set out Tuesday to cash in a pair of valuable arms.

Pittsburgh — The Tigers ended up not trading Eduardo Rodriguez before the deadline expired Tuesday and the reasons for it are complicated and a little mysterious. The Tigers had a deal in place with the Los Angeles Dodgers, but in the final hour, Rodriguez nixed it, exercising a no-trade provision in his contract. The Dodgers

Pittsburgh — Michael Lorenzen was on the field at PNC Park at around 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, going through his usual between-starts routine, including throwing off the bullpen mound. “Just kind of in a holding pattern,” he said. “You just don’t know where you are going to go, what’s true and what’s not true.” An hour

Pittsburgh — Michael Lorenzen was on the field at PNC Park at around 2:30 Tuesday afternoon, going through his usual between-starts routine, including throwing off the bullpen mound. An hour later, he finally learned his fate. The Tigers traded Lorenzen to the Philadelphia Phillies for 20-year-old infield prospect Hao-Yu Lee, a source confirmed to The

Detroit — It’s not a question of if the Tigers are going to trade starting pitchers Michael Lorenzen and Eduardo Rodriguez. It never was. The question is how long Tigers president Scott Harris holds out for the best deal before cashing his chips. It could happen two minutes after this story gets posted on the