With a class booming with high-profile talent, the Draft is coming to the Emerald City. For three days beginning Sunday, the Major League Baseball Draft hits Seattle. Here is everything you need to know. Broadcast and Logistical Details For the third straight year, the Draft will be part of All-Star Week. Sunday’s action begins at
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The hours before the 2023 MLB Draft kicks off are dwindling and time is running out for teams to try to line up their Draft boards. Trying to bring you the latest intel, we worked late into the night to come up with our best final projections of how the first round will go Sunday.
Here are nine stats and facts from a hitless Saturday spun by the home team in Detroit. • This was the Tigers’ second no-hitter in the past three seasons, after Spencer Turnbull authored a solo effort on May 18, 2021, against the Mariners. It was their first at home since a 24-year-old Justin Verlander no-hit
DETROIT — A dozen years after Justin Verlander no-hit the Blue Jays in Toronto, Matt Manning and two relievers repeated the feat at Comerica Park, combining to hold the mighty Blue Jays lineup to three walks and a hit batter and outduel Kevin Gausman for a 2-0 win Saturday afternoon. The ninth no-hitter in franchise
Bot 1 TOR 0 DET 1 Result of AB Spencer Torkelson’s RBI double AB: Spencer Torkelson | P: Kevin Gausman
DETROIT — Alex Faedo was seemingly set up for an abbreviated start on Friday, in his return from the injured list and his first Major League outing since May 30. If he had gone eight batters, he would have been perfect. Of course, that would have been a short start, even by the Tigers’ bullpen-game
Top 3 TOR 1 DET 0 Result of AB George Springer’s RBI double AB: George Springer | P: Alex Faedo
This story was excerpted from Jason Beck’s Tigers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. Scott Harris’ imprint on the Tigers since becoming president of baseball operations last fall is already fairly big, from the Major League roster to player development to Comerica Park itself.
The 2023 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game is set for Saturday, July 8, at 7 p.m. ET at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park, where 50 of the game’s top Minor Leaguers will take the field together for the 24th edition of baseball’s greatest prospect showcase. How to watchThe seven-inning game will air exclusively on Peacock and SiriusXM. MLB
When we decided what the mock Draft schedule would be earlier this spring, I got excited because I knew I’d get to use one of my favorite words for the whole draft projection process. So, without further ado, welcome to my penultimate mock of the first round of the 2023 Draft. Here’s where things stand
DETROIT — Michael Lorenzen has had most of the week to absorb his surprise selection to the All-Star Game, an honor he considered bigger than his first Major League call-up. But before he could focus on the National League All-Star hitters in Seattle, he needed to focus on the A’s, and on one major thing
Bot 1 OAK 0 DET 2 Result of AB Javier Báez’s two-run single AB: Javier Baez | P: Hogan Harris
DETROIT — Eduardo Rodriguez’s first Major League pitch since May 28 ended up bunted to the first-base side of the mound, sending the Tigers’ ace charging to field it. He had it in plenty of time to toss to first for the out, but with first baseman Spencer Torkelson off the bag to chase the
The Dodgers had mixed success in the first three years of the Draft, sandwiching lackluster efforts in 1965 and 1967 around finding three All-Stars (Charlie Hough, Bill Russell, Billy Grabarkewitz) and a Rookie of the Year (Ted Sizemore) in 1966. Los Angeles slid from a World Series championship to an eighth-place finish during that time,