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. Josue Briceno was staring at something close to a lost season when he arrived in Arizona for the Fall League a month and a half ago. A rundown on
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We all like to talk about the good old days of our beloved teams, especially during the rockier points of a rebuild, when the youthful new recruits are just getting their legs under them. With the Tigers, we finally started to see those young players start to gel in 2024 and glimmers of the team
The Astros have called re-signing Alex Bregman their top offseason priority. Whether that’ll happen remains to be seen, but Jon Heyman of the New York Post writes that Houston has made an offer to their longtime third baseman. It’s unclear whether any other teams have made a formal proposal, but Heyman reports that Bregman’s camp has
For a franchise with as much history as the Detroit Tigers have, there have been surprisingly few Cy Young award winners: Tarik Skubal’s win this year was just the fifth in team history. At the award’s inception in 1956, in honour of legendary pitcher Cy Young (who had died the previous year), there was only
Tarik Skubal has his first Cy Young award. The Baseball Writers Association of America announced that the Tigers ace won the AL Cy Young by a unanimous margin. He received all 30 first-place votes. Kansas City’s Seth Lugo placed runner-up, while Cleveland closer Emmanuel Clase rounded out the top three. Whether Skubal would win the
Was there ever any doubt? Since about the All-Star break, the name Tarik Skubal has felt almost synonymous with Cy Young Award winner. The Detroit Tigers’ ace picked up where he left off in 2023, and then got even better, building the most masterful season of his career. In a year where the Tigers’ success
The Tigers have signed infielder/outfielder Jahmai Jones to a minor league deal, per Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press. The ACES client will receive an invite to major league spring training and will make a salary of $810K if he cracks the big league roster. The 27-year-old Jones was once a notable prospect but
After a decade in the wilderness, the Detroit Tigers finally burst back on the scene in 2024. Given up for dead in July after selling at the trade deadline, the young Tigers’ roster put together a stunning stretch drive that saw them close with a 31-13 run to a wild card berth. They went on
Tuesday was the final day for major league teams to add players to their 40-man roster in advance of December’s Rule 5 draft, and the Detroit Tigers had a few adjustments in mind. They added three minor league relievers to the roster to protect them from the draft, and designated three players for assignment to
The Tigers designated infielder Eddys Leonard and relievers Ricky Vanasco and Brendan White for assignment. Their spots on the 40-man roster will go to righties Chase Lee, Tyler Mattison and Tyler Owens. Detroit kept that trio out of next month’s Rule 5 draft. Leonard has held a spot on Detroit’s 40-man roster since they acquired him in a minor trade
The Detroit Tigers need offensive help, and specifically they need a right-handed hitter with power who handles left-handed hitters well. Free agent outfielder Tyler O’Neill fits the bill and he wouldn’t come close to breaking the bank. Working another outfielder into the roster still isn’t the preferred way to go about improving the offense, but
It doesn’t take a long look at this offseason’s MLB free agent list to realize that making major upgrades in the Detroit Tigers’ offense via free agents won’t be too easy. But they certainly need upgrades. Despite the flaws in the Tigers current positional group, they are young and it’s not unreasonable to hope for
Happy Monday, all. The past week has seen some interesting news, so we’ll touch in some of the bigger stories of the week. Spoiler alert: no one has signed Juan Soto, but there is a new suitor on the block. The Rays have found their new home for 2025, but does it come at the
Ten years ago (yes, somehow ten years ago), a simple song went absolutely viral for Oakland A’s fans when Josh Reddick started to use the song “Careless Whisper” as his walk-up song. Fans brought inflatable saxophones, people danced along, it was a whole movement with the A’s. [embedded content] This wasn’t the only time a