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JUPITER, Fla. — For much of the spring, Matthew Boyd has run into few roadblocks while preparing for the upcoming season. He’s essentially sailed through most of his starts, and as a veteran pitcher who has overcome some rather significant injury setbacks in more recent times, having an uneventful Spring Training has been a welcome

LAKELAND, Fla. — It was only St. Patrick’s Day, two weeks before Opening Day, but Matt Manning needed a good start. He got one Friday, throwing 3 2/3 scoreless innings in an 8-7 win over the Yankees that left everyone feeling a little better. “He was throwing with conviction, and all his stuff was working

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DETROIT — When Charlene Turner-Johnson took a leave of absence from her job as a teacher at Detroit Public Schools more than 40 years ago, little did she know it would eventually take her down a new path.   While away from the classroom, Turner-Johnson said she joined a group of women at Twelfth Street Baptist

LAKELAND, Fla — Jonathan Schoop is still shaking off the jet lag following his quick trip to the other side of the world, but that didn’t make him exempt from being the center of attention once he returned to the Tigers this week. Knowing how A.J. Hinch operates — he likes to infuse a little

“Throw him the cheese! Throw him the high, stinky Limburger!” That’s Henry Rowengartner’s line from Rookie of the Year. Of course, pitching is more of an art than simply throwing hard. But sometimes – and especially in an age where we’re seeing more velo than ever – sometimes it’s just aesthetically pleasing to see a hurler

LAKELAND, Fla. — Prior to the Tigers’ game against the Phillies on Thursday night, the team issued medical updates on several of their Minor League players, including some unfortunate news about top prospect Jackson Jobe. Jobe, the No. 63 overall prospect per MLB Pipeline, will be sidelined several months with lumbar spine inflammation. The lumbar

LAKELAND, Fla. — Hard to believe it was just under a month ago that Parker Meadows was following his older brother Austin into Spring Training, bats clumsily in tow and walking toward the clubhouse. Four weeks and four homers later, as Parker walked out of the Tigers’ clubhouse on Tuesday, optioned to Triple-A Toledo in the

One inning changed Duque Hebbert’s life in a hurry. His manager, Sandor Guido, called it “history for our country.”  The 21-year-old right-hander — who has never pitched in affiliated pro ball — took the mound for Team Nicaragua in the ninth inning of Monday’s World Baseball Classic game versus the Dominican Republic, a 6-1 win

ST. PETERSBURG — Tigers manager A.J. Hinch gave Eric Haase a vote of confidence at catcher this offseason. But he also warned the slugging backstop to bring his outfield glove to Spring Training. As Haase stood in left field at Tropicana Field in Monday’s 9-5 loss to the Rays, he was putting it to use.

LAKELAND, Fla. — A.J. Hinch has been through this cycle before: Young player makes a big impression in the first couple weeks of Spring Training, then cools off down the stretch. The opposition gets tougher as players go from “working on things” to getting into regular-season shape. The pressure mounts with each round of roster

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. Mike Maroth often doesn’t pop up among the most famous Tigers of the past 20 years, but arguably no Tiger better represents the franchise’s rise from 119 losses to the

NORTH PORT, Fla. — Sometimes, you get by with a little help from your friends. And sometimes, those friends help one another’s dreams come true. It’s a friendship that dates back to the sandlot and youth baseball. Grissom, a then-newcomer to town, remembers his first interaction with Greene while looking for his mother during youth

NORTH PORT, Fla. — Little brother showed he has some big pop in his bat, as the Tigers’ Parker Meadows crushed two homers in Spring Training action vs. Atlanta on Saturday afternoon. The younger brother of teammate Austin and the Tigers’ No. 12 prospect per MLB Pipeline, Parker launched a pair of behemoth long balls

LAKELAND, Fla. — Spencer Torkelson was so enthused to see his line drive fall into open territory in left-center field that he could have floated into second base. Just in case, he stayed on his feet to leg out a double. “One dropped!” Torkelson exclaimed after Friday’s 4-3 loss to the Yankees. “Gosh, I feel like

DETROIT — Growing up, Cindy Abbott never laced up a pair of hockey skates or wore lacrosse goggles. Fast forward to the present, and Abbott has taken it upon herself to make the sports she once knew very little about more accessible for athletes of all ages and abilities. “Driving culture and opportunities to connect

BRADENTON, Fla. — So many Tigers are playing multiple positions this year that it’s hard to discern which player has the most gloves in camp. Unlike past Spring Trainings, there’s no Don Kelly or Niko Goodrum with seven or eight gloves stacked in his locker in this camp. Ask Ryan Kreidler about his glove count,

LAKELAND, Fla. — Riley Greene stepped to the plate Sunday against Twins starter Pablo López and took three called strikes, all different pitches, in his first at-bat. He was unhappy — not with the umpire, but with himself. “I was like, ‘Dang, I wasn’t locked in mentally. I want to face him again,’” Greene said.

LAKELAND, Fla. — The first-pitch curveball Matthew Boyd flipped over the plate Tuesday on Cardinals top prospect Jordan Walker was slow enough that it could have drawn dirty looks on Interstate 4 nearby. “If you look over my years, nobody really swings at a first-pitch curveball from me. It’s a free strike,” Boyd explained afterwards.

LAKELAND, Fla. — A couple new voices alongside Dan Dickerson on Tigers games in recent days are part of an expansion of the Tigers’ radio team. Daniella Bruce is joining the broadcasts as a reporter for games at Comerica Park, while former Major League player and executive Bobby Scales will work alongside Dickerson as an