Dana Gauruder| Special to Detroit Free Press Matthew Boyd, Spencer Turnbull, Jose Urena and Julio Teheran were supposed to be the stabilizers on the Detroit Tigers’ starting staff. Prized rookies Casey Mize and Tarik Skubal were expected to be complementary pieces and gain valuable lessons along the way. Instead, Mize and Skubal have become the
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Detroit — The Tigers are 100% open for business, and they’re ready to throw a party. The Tigers will host what they’re calling “Detroit’s Biggest Summer Baseball Bash” on Saturday, July 17, with appearances by several franchise luminaries, including Jim Leyland, Mickey Lolich, Lance Parrish and more. The first 10,000 ticketed fans through the gates will
After canceling TigerFest for the past two winters because of COVID-19, the Detroit Tigers are planning to hold something similar to kickoff the second half of the season after the All-Star break. The Tigers announced details Friday for “Detroit’s Biggest Summer Baseball Bash,” scheduled for Saturday, July 17 when they play the Minnesota Twins. It
The MLB Draft is Sunday, and while it can sometimes feel like the Draft is a trailer for a movie you won’t watch for several years, these players will be here faster than you think. It seems like Andrew Vaughn was just picked third overall, and now here he is, patrolling the outfield for the
Every fifth day during this 2021 baseball season, when Casey Mize starts a game for the Tigers and a fan decides, “I’m going to tune in to see what the kid’s doing tonight,” it’s a reminder how vital the MLB Draft is and how quickly it can affect a big-league team. Tarik Skubal has been
Dana Gauruder | Special to Detroit Free Press An inch or two here, a foot or a cleat mark there. The Detroit Tigers got beat on the margins by the Minnesota Twins on Thursday. The first few innings moved along quickly and efficiently. Tarik Skubal set down the first 13 batters he faced, striking out five
More than a dozen Tigers alumni, including 1984 World Series champions Lance Parrish, Dan Petry, Juan Berenguer, Dave Rozema and Howard Johnson, will be on hand for autographs when the Tigers celebrate the season’s second half with what the team is billing Detroit’s Biggest Summer Baseball Bash on Saturday, July 17, prior to their 6:10
Why could the Detroit Tigers draft Jackson Jobe, a high school pitcher, on Sunday with the third pick in the MLB draft? Because he checks every box imaginable. Jobe, a right-handed pitcher, can touch 99 mph. He has a nasty slider with an MLB-level spin rate. He walked just five batters during his senior year while
Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers’ Spencer Torkelson explains how he cut his finger Detroit Tigers top prospect Spencer Torkelson cut his finger last week. He shares the story Thursday, March 4, 2021, in spring training. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press The 2021 MLB draft is approaching, and the Detroit Tigers have the No. 3
Here’s a look at Thursday’s top Minor League performers from each team’s Top 30 Prospects list: Braves: Cristian Pache, OF (MLB No. 10), Triple-A GwinnettThe top Braves prospect found the seats for his third homer of the season. Pache also added a base knock and a walk to reach base three times. The 22-year-old opened
Minneapolis — An old bugaboo from April reared up and bit the Tigers Thursday night. The failure to turn a couple of double-plays — and one big missed opportunity on offense — was at the heart of the Tigers’ 5-3 loss to the Minnesota Twins Thursday night at Target Field. “It is frustrating,” manager AJ Hinch said. “It hasn’t
Dana Gauruder | Special to Detroit Free Press Tarik Skubal got off to a dazzling start on Thursday but a fielding mistake helped the Minnesota Twins pull out a 5-3 win at Target Field in Minneapolis against the Detroit Tigers. Second baseman Willi Castro failed to keep his foot on the bag during a routine fielder’s choice
MINNEAPOLIS — For nearly five innings, Tarik Skubal looked like he was playing catch, and Twins hitters were bystanders. By the eighth, the Tigers looked like they had missed an opportunity. It wasn’t just the 13 batters that Skubal retired in order to begin Thursday’s series opener at Target Field, but the baserunners the Tigers
The Tigers were coming off an American League pennant and in the thick of the AL Central race in 2007, their roster relatively stacked with young talent and their window for contention seemingly wide open, when they used the 27th overall pick in the MLB Draft on a high school pitcher. They selected Rick Porcello
TOP 4 DET 2 MIN 0 Result of at-bat Eric Haase’s two-run home run Batter: Eric Haase Pitcher: J.A. Happ
While it’s always exciting to watch young amateur players fulfill their dreams by getting drafted by a Major League team and embarking on a professional career, the people responsible for making that happen — the scouts — often go overlooked and underappreciated. It wouldn’t be practical to name every scout responsible for keeping the game
Minneapolis — You can’t blame Ian Krol if he immediately thought the worst. It was Tuesday night and the Toledo Mud Hens were trying to lock up a win in Omaha. The lefty Krol was warmed up and ready and he was summoned in the ninth inning to close out the game. “I ran out of
The best of the best will be representing their clubs at the 2021 MLB Draft. The 30 club representatives who will be in attendance at the Bellco Theatre in Denver on Draft night on Sunday, July 11 includes Hall of Famers, All-Stars, MVPs and Cy Young Award winners. The two Cooperstown members serving as club
Enough about late December. The most wonderful time of the year is coming Sunday, if you’re a devoted baseball prospect fan that is. The 2021 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game will be Sunday at Coors Field in Denver. (It happens to be the same day that the first round of the MLB Draft will be held
DETROIT — Mike Palmer is on a mission. A mission to make sure hockey is available to everyone, regardless of ability. “My primary focus for Disabled Hockey Michigan is building awareness and growing the game for all abilities,” Palmer said. Palmer is the Michigan Amateur Hockey Association director of disabled hockey, and because of his