Detroit Tigers

DETROIT — The home clubhouse at Comerica Park would be getting crowded around this time in past seasons, loaded with a slew of September callups as rosters expanded to up to 40 players. Some would be depth additions, others would be prospects earning a few weeks in the spotlight at the Major League level. But

DETROIT — Tarik Skubal’s hardest fastball Tuesday night registered at 96.9 mph, according to Statcast. The A’s averaged a 97.0 mph exit velocity off the Tigers left-hander. It was that kind of night. Even as Skubal fanned six batters over five innings to set a Tigers record for strikeouts by a pitcher in his rookie

BOT 1 OAK 0 DET 1 Result of at-bat Robbie Grossman’s solo home run Batter: Robbie Grossman Pitcher: Cole Irvin

DETROIT — The Tigers’ youth movement extended on Tuesday to their front office, where the team promoted Sam Menzin and Jay Sartori to vice president/assistant general manager roles while embarking on a search for a new head of player development. Dave Littlefield, the Tigers’ vice president of player development for the last six years, has

DETROIT — Two days after Taylor North won the Little League World Series, the team got a day in the big leagues, taking the field at Comerica Park while the Tigers took batting practice on Tuesday. One player after another walked over with congratulations and autographs, from new 500-homer member Miguel Cabrera to former LLWS

USA Baseball wrapped up its final trials for its 18-and-under national team in Florida on Tuesday, marking an unofficial end to the high school showcase circuit. Scouts from all 30 teams have gotten fairly lengthy looks at the top competition for the Draft class of 2022 at these events all summer: Perfect Game NationalMLB High

DETROIT — The Tigers’ bullpen was nearly still as Casey Mize worked through a 30-pitch, three-run fourth inning, just as it was when he had two runners on with two outs in the sixth inning of a one-run contest. The message from manager A.J. Hinch was clear: This was Mize’s game. As Hinch said before

BOT 3 MIN 0 DET 1 Result of at-bat Derek Hill’s solo home run Batter: Derek Hill Pitcher: Bailey Ober

DETROIT — The Detroit Tigers hosted 24 youth baseball and softball players at Comerica Park on Saturday as part of the Major League Baseball Pitch Hit & Run Program, presented by MLB Network. MLB Pitch Hit & Run (PHR) is a grassroots initiative in the United States and Canada offering boys and girls ages 7-14

DETROIT — Byron Buxton got one more chance to face the Tigers on Monday, nearly five months after his last meeting with them at Comerica Park in the season-opening homestand. Buxton at least didn’t have to worry about hitting the ball to Ryan Kreidler again — at least not this season. Buxton played two games

For the first time in 62 years, the state of Michigan is home to the Little League World Series champions. Jackson Surma drove in four runs and the pitching duo of Ethan Van Belle and Gavin Ulin combined for 10 strikeouts in Taylor North Little League’s 5-2 victory over Ohio in the Little League World

DETROIT — Not even a passing downpour could cool off longtime Tigers nemesis and current Blue Jays starter José Berríos on Sunday at Comerica Park. Matthew Boyd couldn’t do anything about that. All he and the bullpen that followed him could do is keep the Tigers close. Though Boyd remains winless against his original organization

TOP 1 TOR 1 DET 0 Result of at-bat Bo Bichette’s solo home run Batter: Bo Bichette Pitcher: Matthew Boyd

DETROIT — Tuesday will mark the four-year anniversary of Daz Cameron joining the Tigers’ organization as part of the Justin Verlander trade. As Saturday’s move to Triple-A Toledo shows, he still has to fight his way into Detroit’s outfield mix. The Tigers’ roster makeup meant one of their young outfielders was going to be optioned

DETROIT — The Tigers and Blue Jays continue to play low-scoring duels. Their latest matchup Saturday came down to a pair of speedy plays from big sluggers. Three innings after Eric Haase bolted down the first-base line to beat out a double-play grounder and allow Robbie Grossman to score the tying run, Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

TOP 1 TOR 0 DET 0 Result of at-bat Tigers’ sweet double play Batter: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Pitcher: Jose Urena

DETROIT – This is the Matt Manning that Tigers fans remember hearing about on his way up the farm system, or maybe watching in the Futures Game, or catching a glimpse of in Spring Training. It took about a dozen starts for the Tigers’ rookie to find himself. When Manning found himself in trouble in

Miguel Cabrera hit his 500th career homer on Aug. 22, and he’s closing in on his 3,000th career hit. From a national perspective, so much of this Tigers’ season has focused on Miggy’s chase of history. But the Tigers’ future is also worthy of your attention. No, Detroit is not vying for postseason contention as

Here’s a look at Friday’s top Minor League performers from each team’s Top 30 Prospects list: Diamondbacks: Alek Thomas, OF (MLB No. 42), Triple-A RenoThomas’s 4-for-5 performance was highlighted by his first Triple-A home run. The 2018 second-round pick was promoted to Reno on Aug. 16 and he went hitless in his first three games.

DETROIT — On the night the Tigers honored Miguel Cabrera’s 500th career home run from five days earlier in Toronto, they beat the Blue Jays on a Victor Reyes pinch-hit, inside-the-park homer. Reyes’ eighth-inning dash around the bases decided what had been a pitching duel between Matt Manning and Steven Matz, sending Detroit to a