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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. A quarter-century after Gabe Alvarez was a promising young third baseman for the Tigers, the former USC All-American has developed into a rising star in the coaching ranks. Alvarez’s two seasons

MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2024 Top 100 Prospects list at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 26, with a one-hour show on MLB Network and MLB.com. Leading up to the release of the Top 100, we’ll examine baseball’s top 10 prospects at each position. Four of the five best third-base prospects from this time

MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2024 Top 100 Prospects list at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 26, with a one-hour show on MLB Network and MLB.com. Leading up to the release of the Top 100, we’ll examine baseball’s top 10 prospects at each position. If you can hit anywhere, you’ve given yourself a chance.

It’s always fun to look at MLB projections before the season and see whose numbers jump off the page. Here are 10 players with eye-popping projections for 2024 — five hitters and five pitchers. 1) Ronald Acuña Jr., Braves: .318 AVG, 37 HR, 55 SB, 7.3 WAR Start with the reigning National League MVP, who’s

Spring Training is drawing ever closer, with pitchers and catchers beginning to report in about three weeks. But there remains much to be determined when it comes to what rosters will look like before that happens. What might each team do to improve its roster before Spring Training gets underway in Arizona and Florida next

The Tigers and right-hander Casey Mize avoided an arbitration hearing by agreeing to terms on a one-year contract with a club option for 2025 on Friday. Mize will make an $830,000 base salary this season. The Tigers at season’s end will either exercise their $3.1 million option for 2025 or buy it out for $10,000,

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. Jack Bushell was a two-way player as a teenager in Australia who had just committed to pitching full-time barely two years ago. He couldn’t have imagined being on the

MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2024 Top 100 Prospects list at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 26, with a one-hour show on MLB Network and MLB.com. Leading up to the release of the Top 100, we’ll examine baseball’s top 10 prospects at each position. Always one of the deepest groups of prospects as we

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. It’s an area where the Tigers haven’t had much contribution the last few years. So beyond the latest signings, how are the Tigers faring on the international front and

The Tigers added a talented prospect to their system after agreeing to a deal with Dominican third baseman Nestor Miranda, MLB.com’s No. 45 international prospect, upon Monday’s opening of the 2024 signing period. The club announced the agreement on Monday. Miranda signed for a $1.5 million bonus, according to sources. Detroit received a signing pool

The 2023 season was the Year of the Steal in MLB. With any luck, 2024 will bring even more stolen base fireworks around the league. Plenty of players have already taken advantage of the new rules encouraging stolen bases, with NL MVP Ronald Acuña Jr. leading the charge with his historic 41-homer, 73-steal season. But

TEMPE, Ariz. — In seeing the temperatures in Arizona hover around freezing at 9 a.m., it would have been more than fair for Nationals starting pitcher Josiah Gray and free-agent infielder Cole Tucker to seek shelter from the elements, nestling with a coffee before getting an offseason day started. But the duo braved the elements

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. The Tigers selected Casey Mize with the top pick in the 2018 MLB Draft with dreams of adding a devastating splitter to their future staff. As Detroit looks to contend in

The Tigers agreed to terms with three of their four arbitration-eligible players on one-year contracts, reaching deals with left-hander Tarik Skubal, catcher Jake Rogers and outfielder Akil Baddoo. Skubal’s deal is worth $2,650,000, Rogers at $1,700,000 and Baddoo at $1,550,000. Right-hander Casey Mize is the lone remaining arbitration-eligible Tiger. Teams and players faced an 8

The 2024 international signing period opens on Monday, Jan. 15, and one only need look at last year’s Major League Baseball award winners to see how important finding talent in this market can be. It can be a high-profile seven-figure bonus signing like Shohei Ohtani, signed in 2017 and now a two-time MVP, or more

Over the first three parts of the 2024 MLB Pipeline Poll series, all of the questions were about individual players and their tools. In the finale of the series, we’re switching gears and have asked front office executives to take a deeper look at farm systems. This line of questioning provides a peek into which

Tarik Skubal was the best starting pitcher in baseball last season, which is a purposefully inflammatory statement absolutely meant to make your eyes pop out of your head. (“Who? The guy who won seven games and received zero Cy Young votes?”) We’re here to bring the heavily caveated receipts, because his ability to turn a

ESPN and FOX have unveiled initial broadcast schedules for the 2024 Major League Baseball season, and even without a complete picture, there’s plenty to get excited about. Postseason rematches, international road trips and special events abound. Here are some intriguing nationally televised games to mark on your calendar in 2024. The 2024 campaign will mark

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. The Tigers’ turnaround from 119 losses in 2003 to an American League pennant three years later was a renaissance that changed the course of the franchise and set up

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. Tigers president of baseball operations Scott Harris, much like former team president/CEO Dave Dombrowski, is incapable of saying his team has enough pitching. There’s no such thing, the two