Teams began to open Spring Training camps on Wednesday, the first on-field step toward the launching of the 2021 season. While the initial focus will be on new faces in new places — Nolan Arenado with the Cardinals, Francisco Lindor with the Mets, Yu Darvish and Blake Snell with the Padres — there also are
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Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. – Yes, AJ Hinch likes versatility. He likes options both with his starting lineup – a day to day lineup, not an everyday lineup. Yes, he’s not big on setting hard-and-fast job descriptions, especially with his bullpen and certainly not in February. But don’t get it twisted. “I don’t
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — Joe Jimenez doesn’t fully understand. His struggles for the Detroit Tigers in 2020 were products of a dip in fastball velocity, getting hit hard when he lost control of his slider and rarely using his changeup. Then, suddenly, everything improved. “Something clicked,” said the 26-year-old Thursday, the second
The Tigers have signed right-hander Wily Peralta to a minor league contract with an invitation to big league camp, Jon Heyman of MLB Network tweets. The deal comes with a $1.5MM base salary and up to $300K in incentives. This is the first we’ve heard about Peralta in quite some time, as he didn’t surface
The Tigers added to their pitching depth Thursday by agreeing to terms with veteran reliever Wily Peralta to a Minor League contract with an invite to Major League Spring Training, according to a source. The 31-year-old Peralta will make $1.5 million if he makes the Major League roster, with another $300,000 possible in incentives, according
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla — The Detroit Tigers have signed veteran right-hander Wily Peralta to a minor-league contract with an invitation to spring training, a source with knowledge of the agreement told the Free Press on Thursday night. The 31-year-old will compete for a job in the starting rotation but could shift to
Buck Farmer’s hair, from the chia beard in the front to the party mullet in the back, is the image of a rebellious reliever from yesteryear, like he could’ve brawled with a slugger back in the day. So maybe it was fitting that Farmer was called into the manager’s office after one day of Spring
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — It can’t be right. Buck Farmer is entering his eighth big-league season with the Tigers? It seems like just yesterday he was jumping four levels of the farm system and making his big-league debut for the last Tigers playoff team in 2014. “It is kind of mind-boggling
The weather has been cold and snowy for weeks in Michigan, and people are stuck inside. But just as the winter doldrums seem unending, the Tigers’ annual trek to Florida for Spring Training is here to get us through it. Pitchers and catchers have reported to Tigertown in Lakeland, Fla., and the full squad is
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — Manager AJ Hinch hasn’t seen every member of the Detroit Tigers’ bullpen throw yet, considering Thursday’s pitcher-catcher workouts included the second of three groups of arms. But he was willing to talk about the construction of his staff on the second day of spring training. Plenty needs to
Jeff Seidel | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — I turned right onto Al Kaline Drive and headed toward bizzaro-world, the strangest start to a spring training I’ve ever seen. A morning rain left puddles in the parking lot outside Joker Marchant Stadium, and a dreary sky looked like a wet, grey blanket hanging from
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — Manager AJ Hinch didn’t sugarcoat it. He not only established an agenda and objectives for his pitching staff Wednesday, the first day of pitcher-catcher workouts, he challenged them to be the catalysts for the Tigers’ turnaround. “It was invigorating,” Tigers veteran lefty Matthew Boyd said of Hinch’s first
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — Tarik Skubal and Matt Manning — the fifth- and third-ranked prospects in the Tigers system per MLBpipeline.com — were throwing off neighboring bullpen mounds on the back fields of Joker Marchant Stadium on Wednesday. Skubal, 6-3, left-handed, coming almost old-school over-the-top with mid- to upper-90 mph heat and
We don’t need to rehash the reasons for the misery, do we? Whether it’s a deserved fate or a quirk in timing, Detroit’s pro sports teams are historically bad right now, and that’s not even the story. The story is, how do they get out of this, and who gets out quicker? As the Tigers report
Not a single one of Detroit’s four professional teams can even sniff contendership right now, and that’s all right. We’ve all suffered this long, what’s another year or two while we wait for one of these teams to figure it out? In the meantime, we’ve compiled the worst teams in Detroit sports history for your
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — AJ Hinch called it the elephant in the room, but shoot, this particular elephant has been shadowing Grayson Greiner every spring. “We’ve got Wilson Ramos (signed for one year at $2 million) and then a bunch of people competing for the same job,” Hinch told his catchers Wednesday.
Jeff Seidel | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — Tarik Skubal, one of the most important pieces in the Detroit Tigers rebuild, looked “good” — he looked like himself — in his first bullpen Wednesday morning. “He looks good — looks like Skubal,” said catcher Grayson Greiner, who caught the bullpen after pitchers and catchers reported to
No, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch didn’t name his Opening Day starter on Wednesday as Spring Training began. But he sounded increasingly likely to have a sixth starter. The more the Tigers debate the value of a six-man rotation, the more it sounds like a matter of when they’ll try it, rather than if. The topic
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers manager AJ Hinch called a meeting with his catchers after Wednesday’s first pitcher-catcher workout of spring training. He told them to sit down at an outside picnic table near the facility building. Then, Hinch addressed the elephant in the room. “You got Wilson Ramos, and
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — Manager AJ Hinch didn’t sugarcoat it. He not only established an agenda and objectives for his pitching staff Wednesday, the first day of pitcher-catcher workouts, he challenged them to be the catalysts for the Tigers’ turnaround. “It was invigorating,” Tigers veteran lefty Matthew Boyd said of Hinch’s first