Detroit Tigers

LOS ANGELES — Miguel Cabrera hadn’t homered in a while, but he knew the feeling. It showed in the look on his face and the trot in his step: He knew his drive was headed into the left-field seats of Dodger Stadium. He was all over a hanging slider from Phil Bickford, and he crushed

LOS ANGELES — On a night when Javier Báez leaned into his recurring role as a Dodger Stadium villain, Beau Brieske refused to play the stooge. While Clayton Kershaw was always going to be the star Saturday night, setting the Dodgers’ franchise record for career strikeouts, Brieske seemed set up to play the anonymous hurler

LOS ANGELES – Tigers manager A.J. Hinch has made a team culture out of four words: Win the day’s game. He doesn’t want his team looking too far forward, nor replaying things too far back. He wants their focus on the short term. So it’s not surprising that he doesn’t have time to look back

The most efficient way to build a team is through the Draft, which makes hitting on first-round picks essential. On the heels of releasing MLB Pipeline’s new Draft Top 150, we decided to look back at each team’s best first-rounder from the last decade. Of the 30 players spotlighted below, seven of them already have

MINNESOTA — Perhaps the best thing that can be said about the first Tigers-Twins series of the season is that it’s over. “It was a bad trip here,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said of the three-game sweep, which the Twins completed with a 7-1 victory on Thursday afternoon at Target Field. Detroit committed four errors

MINNEAPOLIS — On another night when Detroit’s offense didn’t bring much to the table, the Tigers’ bullpen showed up in a big way. Though Andrew Chafin gave up a run in his Tigers debut, that’s all the relievers gave up in three innings of work in Wednesday night’s 5-0 loss to the Twins at Target

The best way to describe the final play in the Tigers’ 5-4 loss to the Twins on Tuesday is “indescribable.” We’ll give it our best shot, though. Let’s set the stage: The Tigers led 4-3 going into the bottom of the ninth, and closer Gregory Soto came on to nail down his fourth save in

Quality crops of high school and college position players and a stunning number of sidelined pitching prospects could lead to a first round of the Draft that’s much more one-sided than usual. It’s possible that the first 10 picks — or more — could be spent on hitters, something that never has happened since the

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 approach he has, oh,” Cabrera marveled about Torkelson, who he said is better than him. “He’s getting comfortable, comfortable, comfortable. When people get comfortable like that, it’s dangerous.

Tigers legend Miguel Cabrera, Mariners first baseman Ty France and Dodgers outfielder Cody Bellinger all had weeks to remember. That’s why they were named Players of the Week presented by Chevrolet on Monday. Cabrera and France shared the honor as co-Players of the Week in the American League, while Bellinger won outright in the National

It’s still early in the 2022 season, but just as with any year, there are some statistics that will prove to have staying power, or at least suggest something significant about the players or teams they belong to. So we asked each of our 30 beat writers to highlight one specific stat they feel is

DETROIT — Miguel Cabrera made it clear over the last couple weeks, throughout his run toward 3,000 hits, that he was focused more on the team than on his individual numbers. Now that he has his milestone, the entire focus turns to what he was talking about. Manager A.J. Hinch didn’t want to hear about

Verlander and Cabrera, who were teammates for nine and a half years with the Tigers, have a deep admiration and friendship that dates back to their time in Detroit, where both won American League Most Valuable Player Awards in consecutive years. Verlander was happy for Cabrera reaching 3,000 hits and texted him congratulations late Saturday.

On June 20, 2003, a 20-year-old left fielder named Miguel Cabrera — four years removed from signing out of Venezuela — made his Major League debut. This was long enough ago that the team he played for was called the Florida Marlins, while the opponents went by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The starting lineups

DETROIT — Miguel Cabrera became the 33rd member of Major League Baseball’s 3,000-hit club on Saturday, churning out a single to right field off Rockies righty Antonio Senzatela. The career feat follows Cabrera’s 500th home run last Aug. 22 at Toronto. Cabrera becomes just the seventh player in MLB history to reach both milestones. This

DETROIT — The Phillies were flying back from Colorado on Wednesday night when general manager Dave Dombrowski got the text message from his son Landon: Miggy has three hits against the Yankees, and he was one away from 3,000 with one more at-bat to go. Only problem for the elder Dombrowski: He couldn’t watch or

DETROIT – Friday’s game between the Tigers and Rockies has been postponed due to inclement weather. The game will be made up as the second game of a split doubleheader on Saturday, April 23 at 6:40 p.m., following the originally scheduled game at 1:10 p.m. All paid tickets from tonight’s game are valid for game two of Saturday’s

You’re a baseball fan. You have an MLB.TV account to watch out-of-market Major League games across the country. But you want to see some of the game’s up-and-coming stars, too. If not, you can get a taste of what you’re missing with select Minor League Baseball games featuring some of MLB’s top prospects coming to

While the evolution of the big league pitching staffs continues and how a closer is employed might continue to change, there is still something different about a short reliever with plus stuff coming in and shutting the door in key situations. These stoppers need to have a certain mentality and, more often than not, it’s

DETROIT — Miguel Cabrera’s chase for his 3,000th hit in the series finale with the Yankees ended instead with his 236th career intentional walk. It wasn’t what fans had in mind as they flocked to Comerica Park, but the ensuing 3-0 win on Thursday afternoon was just fine for Cabrera. “I know history is very