The Tigers and left-hander Thomas Szapucki have agreed to a minor league contract, per Evan Woodbery of MLive.com. He’ll head straight to minor league camp and look to build back up after a pair of injury-ruined seasons. Once a well-regarded pitching prospect within the Mets’ system, Szapucki made his big league debut with New York
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After taking an early lead, the Detroit Tigers bullpen struggled late to lose this one to the Baltimore Orioles. The Tigers fall to 2-1 in Grapefruit League action. Unacceptable. Ok, we’ve had our fun. The games don’t matter, but the players do. Jackson Jobe looked fine, topping out at 99 mph repeatedly, and showed off
The Detroit Tigers head out on the road today to meet the Baltimore Orioles for a 1:05 p.m. ET start time. Unfortunately there will be neither television nor radio broadcast. That’s pretty frustrating, as the Tigers rookie wunderkind, Jackson Jobe, will toe the bump in his first Grapefruit League start of the season. We would
The Detroit Tigers have another talented right-handed relief prospect lined up to help this season in the form of Tyler Mattison. The 25-year-old was slated as part of their plans last spring, but UCL reconstruction in March of 2024 short-circuited those plans. Now rehabbing in spring camp, Mattison has the potential to be a key
We’ll kick off the 40 future value tier with a relief prospect. You could put Tyler Owens anywhere in this tier, but the Tigers clearly like him and with minor improvements he’ll be very likely to get a shot at the major league bullpen this summer. So we’ll lead off the group with him for
Besides Tarik Skubal’s incredible season culminating in his first AL Cy Young award, no Detroit Tigers storyline received more coverage than “pitching chaos”. Despite losing Reese Olson and Casey Mize to injuries, and Jack Flaherty to the Dodgers at the trade deadline, Tigers’ pitching overwhelmed opponents during their march to the playoffs. Much of that
The Tigers expected to enter Spring Training with four rotation spots secured. Jack Flaherty’s surprisingly quiet market allowed Detroit to reinstall him as the #2 starter behind Tarik Skubal. Righty Reese Olson filled that role down the stretch last year after the Tigers traded Flaherty to Los Angeles. Free agent signee Alex Cobb would’ve had a mid-rotation role in his
Once again, left-handed reliever Andrew Chafin has signed with the Detroit Tigers. This time it’s a minor league deal that will allow the club to evaluate him in camp without commitment. Should the Tigers add him to the active roster, the 34-year-old southpaw will earn $2.5 million plus another $1.5 million in incentives are available,
5:05pm: Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press reports that Chafin will make $2.5MM if he cracks the roster. There’s also $1.5MM available via incentives and a $250K assignment bonus if he is traded. 4:00pm: The Tigers announced that they have signed left-hander Andrew Chafin to a minor league deal with a non-roster invite to
Joy! Happiness! Baseball is back! And while we are still in the “Spring Training games don’t count” portion of the season, it’s so delightful to see baseball happening! As a result of baseball being back, so is baseball news and there was quite a bit to go down last week, from some big changes by
The Detroit Tigers remained undefeated with a 4-0 victory over the New York Yankees on Sunday. Casey Mize’s first outing looked pretty solid, and Dillon Dingler’s scorched two-run homer in the fourth inning was the big difference maker in this one. Jace Jung added a pair of doubles and Colt Keith chipped in two hits
The Grapefruit League calendar started off with a nice throwback to the Detroit Tigers 2024 stretch drive on Saturday. They were in an early hole, but the bullpen shut down the Phillies and the Tigers farmhands forged a comeback that ended with a Justice Bigbie walkoff single. On Sunday, they’ll make their televised debut on
Detroit Tigers pitchers struggled to throw strikes for a while in this Grapefruit League season debut, and the Phillies took advantage to build a 6-0 lead. The bullpen then locked them down the rest of the game while the Tigers’ minor league hitters put together a comeback. In the end, Justice Bigbie was the hero,
The Detroit Tigers draft philosophy is has gone through some big changes since Scott Harris took over in late fall of 2022. The scouting leadership of VP Rob Metzler and director of amateur scouting, Mark Conner has favored a much more prep heavy approach and the early returns on their first two draft classes have