Detroit — This isn’t a story about how things fell apart for Buck Farmer last season. It’s about how he’s putting it all back together. It’s not a story of failure, but of strength, accountability, faith and resiliency. And in that sense, this is a story of survival and success Farmer went into the last season, his
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One of the favorite memories of my career is of Jim Leyland, when he was the Detroit Tigers’ manager, conducting a morning interview in his office while lying on his couch, wearing a bathrobe and smoking a cigarette. The only way to provide you with anything close to an accurate visual image of Leyland’s pose
All of those graduations will mean that fresh faces will need to replace them on MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 Prospects list. Below, we present a prospect from each organization who could ascend to the Top 100 in 2024. Blue Jays: Gunnar Hoglund, RHP (No. 4)Hoglund has twice been a top-40 Draft pick and could have
It’s been a minute, but Jackson Jobe can remember the last time he pitched to an actual hitter. “Last pitch I threw was May 14,” the 19-year-old right-hander said from his home in Oklahoma in a Wednesday afternoon call with reporters. Jobe’s professional career so far has been limited to bullpen sessions, mound work and
The Tigers announced Thursday that they’ve promoted Triple-A manager Gary Jones to the Major League staff, where he’ll serve as the team’s new first base coach. The promotion comes in the wake of the tragic death of Detroit first base coach Kimera Bartee, passed away at just 49 years of age earlier this offseason due
DETROIT — Lloyd McClendon could get a chance to manage Spencer Torkelson and Riley Greene after all. Just over a year after McClendon managed Detroit down the stretch of the 2020 season and interviewed for the full-time job, the longtime Tigers coach returns to the organization to play a role in the team’s youth movement.
Detroit — Just when he thought he got out, they pull him back in. Lloyd McClendon, who has been out of baseball since he finished the 2020 season as the Tigers’ manager after Ron Gardenhire suddenly retired, has been hired to manage the Tigers’ Triple-A affiliate in Toledo. “I am looking forward to returning to Toledo
The Detroit Tigers have shifted gears. Triple-A Toledo manager Gary Jones, hired in early December to lead the Mud Hens, received a promotion Thursday when Tigers manager AJ Hinch added the 61-year-old to his MLB coaching staff as the team’s first base coach, filling Kimera Bartee’s role. Bartee died suddenly from a brain tumor in December at the
Detroit — A couple of weeks ago I wrote an analysis piece you may have read in which I posited that the bullpen might be one of the Tigers’ strengths heading into spring training, and that it didn’t need any free-agent bolstering. With Gregory Soto, Michael Fulmer and Jose Cisnero coming off strong seasons, the back end
Jackson Jobe is ready to get started. Last year’s No. 3 overall pick visited the Detroit Tigers‘ spring training facility for six weeks after the July draft, throwing bullpens while he was prohibited from facing live hitters. He roomed with his best friend — and the Tigers’ second-round pick — Izaac Pacheco. The 19-year-old prospects plan to climb the organization’s hierarchy together. Jobe, a right-handed
Before Jim Leyland joined the Detroit Tigers for eight years at the end of his managerial career, he managed 11 seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates, two for the Florida Marlins and one for the Colorado Rockies. In Pittsburgh, Leyland met Barry Bonds, who rose to stardom with the Pirates over his first seven seasons (1986-92). “You can make a
Detroit — You almost feel bad for the first guy who steps into the batter’s box against Jackson Jobe. You remember Jackson Jobe, right? Tall, lanky right-hander from Oklahoma City the Tigers took with the third overall pick in last summer’s draft? They paid him a $6.9 million signing bonus and sent him to Lakeland for
Most of us fell in love with baseball as a child. That’s when our imaginations were the most fertile, when we could easily picture ourselves standing on the mound in the bottom of the ninth or up at the plate with the bases loaded and the World Series on our shoulders. So, it shouldn’t be
Jim Leyland will never forget the Tigers’ Winter Caravan of 2012, but not for the frigid Michigan weather. While the Tigers were building enthusiasm for their upcoming defense of their 2011 American League Central title, Leyland worried about the roster. Detroit had just lost Victor Martinez to a season-ending left knee injury. Leyland had asked
Count Jim Leyland among the large contingent of baseball fans who were disappointed in the Baseball Hall of Fame voting results revealed Tuesday night. Barry Bonds, in his 10th and final year on the writers’ ballot, didn’t get elected — the slugger’s widely accepted suspicion of steroid use again trumping the indisputable argument that he is
Detroit Tigers outfielder Victor Reyes played some of his best baseball in the Venezuelan Winter League championship series. The 27-year-old, competing for Caribes de Anzoategui, reached the best-of-seven final round and faced Navegantes del Magallanes. The teams met for Game 7 on Tuesday at Estadio Alfonso Carrasquel in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela. Reyes’ team lost,
While slugger Gary Sheffield received 160 votes in his eighth year of eligibility for the Baseball Hall of Fame, other former Tigers remain well out of consideration for induction to Cooperstown. No ex-Tiger received the 75 percent share of votes needed for induction, though Sheffield remains by far the closest among voting by members of
By Ronald Blum | Associated Press Major League Baseball withdrew its plan for more limited salary arbitration on Tuesday, a day after the union withdrew its demand for greater free agent eligibility. In the second straight day of talks aimed at an agreement to end a lockout that started Dec. 2, clubs also accepted the union’s
The Detroit Tigers signed right-handed reliever Gerson Moreno as a teenager out of the Dominican Republic in 2012. Moreno, now 26, became a minor-league free agent in November, but less than three months later, the Tigers re-signed him. His minor-league contract with the Tigers became official Monday, according to the team’s transaction page. The Tigers assigned Moreno to
Dillon Dingler no doubt needed a break that night on Aug. 4 of last season as his Double-A Erie team tussled in a game against the Harrisburg Senators. A break, that is, meaning a breather — or, some good fortune after a stretch of bad times. It had been a long 2021 season. Making minor-league life