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Spencer Torkelson’s stint in the 2021 Arizona Fall League is over. Torkelson suffered a sprained ankle in a game Wednesday and will not play again before the AFL season closes next month, a Tigers source with direct knowledge of the situation confirmed. Torkelson was the MLB Draft’s first-overall pick in 2020 and had a huge

With fewer than 24 hours remaining in his bust-out 2021 season, Riley Greene’s big baseball year ended. Competitively, anyway. During the fourth inning of the Toledo Mud Hens’ next-to-last game, Oct. 2 at Fifth Third Field, Greene was playing center field. At bat was St. Paul Saints shortstop Drew Stankiewicz. Stankiewicz popped a Logan Shore

Associated Press New York — The price of a qualifying offer to Major League Baseball free agents dropped by $500,000 to $18.4 million, a sign of the slide in salaries. The figure is determined by the average of the top 125 major league contracts this year and marks only the second fall. The price fell

By Howard Fendrich |  Associated Press Washington — Darnell Coles was hired by the Washington Nationals as their hitting coach on Monday, returning him to an organization he worked for in the minor leagues and reuniting him with manager Dave Martinez, a former teammate. Coles was most recently the hitting coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks, who fired him

Detroit — The Ilitches might be cutting the cord on the idea of starting their own Regional Sports Network. The Ilitch-owned Detroit Tigers and Red Wings have re-upped on a multi-year agreement with Bally Sports Detroit to continue broadcasting the team’s games, Olympia Entertainment confirmed Wednesday. “We are pleased, as momentum builds for the Tigers and Red

Plans to further groom Tigers star prospect Riley Greene for big-league duty in 2022 ran into a potential hitch when a concussion scratched Greene from the 2021 Arizona Fall League roster. The concussion occurred during a collision in Greene’s final game, Oct. 2, against St. Paul, at Fifth Third Field in Toledo. Greene dived for

Two of the Tigers’ top farm-team talents, not surprisingly, were officially feted Friday when the Tigers made Riley Greene and Beau Brieske their choices as the Tigers’ minor league player and pitcher of the year, respectively, for 2021. Riley Greene, the gifted center fielder who flailed pitchers at both Double A and Triple A, won the

Detroit — OK, they have our attention. The Tigers went from a non-entity to a curiosity to a priority, all in one season. And now, it gets interesting. Based on the enthusiastic mood of the players, the manager, the front office and many fans, the Tigers just completed the most-invigorating 77-85 season in recent history.

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He says he was told, simply, “We’re going in a different direction.” No other explanation was offered Tuesday when Tom Prince, who managed the Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens to a first-place Midwest Division finish and 74-56 record in 2021, was told he would not be returning in 2022, all during a short conversation with Tigers general

Associated Press |  Associated Press Bastrop, Texas — Former Tiger Eddie Robinson, the oldest living former major league player whose more than six decades in professional baseball included being general manager for two teams, has died. He was 100. The Texas Rangers, the team for which Robinson was GM from 1976-82, said he died Monday night at

Detroit — The Tigers are apparently leaving the door wide open for Riley Greene to win a roster spot next spring. General manager Al Avila said during a season-ending press conference with manager AJ Hinch on Tuesday that pursuing an experienced outfielder was not a priority this offseason. Meaning, the club feels Greene, who just

Detroit — As general manager Al Avila and manager AJ Hinch sat at the podium Tuesday in front of the assembled print and broadcast media inside the Tiger Club at Comerica Park, it was easy to hearken back to other press conferences in that room over the years where seated between them would be a top-shelf

The Detroit Tigers on Tuesday named Gabe Ribas the organization’s director of pitching. Ribas, 41, will report to Ryan Garko, the Tigers’ new vice president of player development. Ribas spent the last four seasons as the pitching coordinator in the Los Angeles Dodgers system, where he “worked across many areas within player development, including coaching

Detroit — To Robbie Grossman, who hasn’t been here the last few miserable years, it just didn’t feel right celebrating a losing season. The Tigers, despite all the growth a progress they made, still finished eight games under .500 (77-85) and long out of playoff contention. So when he was asked about the season on Saturday, he

By Ronald Blum |  Associated Press New York — The major league batting average dropped to .244 this season, its lowest since the year of the pitcher in 1968, though offense picked up markedly following baseball’s midseason crackdown on grip-enhancing substances for pitchers. MLB’s stricter enforcement had the desired impact, ending a run of 12 consecutive full seasons

Chicago — The year began in a snow globe and ended on a dreary, rainy October afternoon on the southside of Chicago. But in between Miguel Cabrera’s line drive home run through the snowflakes on opening day and the 5-2 win in the finale against the Central Division champion White Sox Sunday, a young baseball

Chicago — If you judge Kyle Funkhouser’s season on two ill-timed home runs in his last two outings, you have sadly missed one of the most encouraging career transformations on a team that was full of them this year. “He has been an incredible part of our bullpen,” manager AJ Hinch said before Sunday’s season

By Jerry Green |  Special to The Detroit News The baseball season was almost over in late September, and the game was changing. There was a young phenom of a ballplayer — a prodigy who hit monumental home runs, but also had amassed precious victories as a pitcher. The nation was emerging from the gripping impact of

Chicago — Robbie Grossman was well aware entering the game Saturday that he needed one more stolen base to join the 20-20 club — 20 home runs and 20 steals. He did not try to hide the fact that he wanted that on his resume badly. “It means a lot to me,” said Grossman, who had never