The last time Tigers manager A.J. Hinch reported to Lakeland, Fla., for Spring Training, he was being traded. He was greeted by Tigers official Al Avila back then, too. Hinch was actually in camp with the Indians, who back in 2003 trained minutes away in Winter Haven and faced the Tigers a handful of times
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Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers’ AJ Hinch talks pitchers and catchers on report day Detroit Tigers manager AJ Hinch checks in Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, before the first pitcher-catcher workout at spring training in Lakeland, Florida. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers manager AJ
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — Matt Manning is ready for his MLB debut. Detroit Tigers general manager Al Avila isn’t making guarantees, but he is optimistic the prized right-handed prospect will arrive in 2021. Assuming the 23-year-old doesn’t break spring training on the Opening Day roster, expect him in Triple-A Toledo to begin
Evan Petzold, Darcie Moran | Detroit Free Press Detroit Tigers pitcher Daniel Norris says, jokingly, he’ll play center field if that’s what it takes to start this year. The man wants to play baseball and he’s felt that way throughout the novel coronavirus pandemic, even sneaking out to throw balls against a chain-link fence in
In preparation for the 2021 season, MLB.com will go around the horn and compare where each team in the AL Central stands at each position in advance of what could be the closest division race in years. It’s a tight-enough race that the club with the most production out of the middle infield could determine
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press It all happened so fast. The Detroit Tigers were in the middle of a March 12 spring training game in Lakeland, Florida, when some players began to pack their bags. This wasn’t unusual. Spring training allows for added relaxation, unlike the regular season. The locker room culture is loose. Games don’t matter much unless
By Steve Adams and Connor Byrne | February 16, 2021 at 9:45pm CDT Jake Odorizzi is the top name left from MLBTR’s Top 50 free agent rankings, and it’s still not clear which (if any) team will meet the right-hander’s reported multi-year asking price. Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch writes in his latest
Bob Wojnowski | The Detroit News Can’t see the whole story? Sign in or subscribe. You probably won’t see everything you crave from the Tigers this season. You won’t get a look at all the prized prospects. You won’t get a taste of playoff contention. You might not even get to sit in the stands, although
The Tigers went into the offseason expecting they would be busier late than early. Still, as they gathered in Lakeland, Fla., for the start of Spring Training this week to survey the roster, the scope of their recent influx came into focus. General manager Al Avila and his front office wanted to start turning a
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — Al Avila walked out onto the field at Joker Marchant Stadium on Tuesday smiling from ear to ear. Usually when he conducts the first big-league staff meeting of the spring with his manager and coaches, it’s a tedious affair, in the stuffy board room inside the administration building,
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers ‘looking for more pitching,’ Al Avila says Detroit Tigers general manager Al Avila talks Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, about his team entering spring training, says they could use more pitching. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — Spring training is here, and
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Can’t see the whole story? Sign in or subscribe. Lakeland, Fla. — For an essentially unanswerable question, Tigers manager AJ Hinch has certainly spent a lot of time this offseason trying to answer it. The question is how to handle workloads for pitchers, coming off a 2020 season where no Tigers pitcher
Associated Press New York — Left-hander Justin Wilson returned to the New York Yankees after two seasons with the Mets in Queens, agreeing Monday to a one-year contract that includes player and club options for 2022, a person familiar with the agreement told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the
By TC Zencka | February 15, 2021 at 9:50am CDT Some minor league moves from around the sport… Former Tigers infielder Dawel Lugo will play 2021 with the expansion Mariachis of Guadalajara of the Mexican League, per Evan Woodbery of the MLive Media Group (via Twitter). The 26-year-old Lugo spent time in each of the
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Can’t see the whole story? Sign in or subscribe. Lakeland, Fla. — Epiphany is a just a word, until you have one. Demons are what other people fight. Rock bottom is just a vague concept until you hit it. And redemption? That’s a road you can’t even find until you are
The Tigers are staking their future on the highly regarded prospects they’ve drafted and developed over the past five years. If the club manages to pull off a turnaround, it wouldn’t mark the first time Detroit has taken the Draft pipeline to success. Here’s a look at the top five homegrown Draft picks in Tigers
Gabe Lacques | USA TODAY Show Caption Hide Caption MLB’s new 2021 COVID-19 protocols are stricter USA TODAY Sports’ Bob Nightengale breaks down the MLB’s new health and safety protocols. USA TODAY The Detroit Tigers open spring training Thursday in Lakeland, Florida, with the first full-team workout one week out. There’s still far too many unknowns
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption AJ Hinch: ‘In a perfect world’ Detroit Tigers sign a catcher Detroit Tigers manager AJ Hinch checks in Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, to discuss the roster and free-agent market as spring training looms. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press Despite COVID-19 concerns, the Detroit Tigers are
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers ‘confident’ fans can safely return to Comerica Park in 2021 Detroit Tigers vice president of ballpark operations Chris Lawrence checks in Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, to discuss fans at spring training in Lakeland. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press The Detroit Tigers improved their farm system’s offense
Janie McCauley | Associated Press Oakland, Calif. — Veteran reliever Yusmeiro Petit has agreed to a $2.55 million, one-year contract to stay with the Oakland Athletics, pending a physical, his agent said. The deal could pay the right-handed Petit up to $3 million based on incentives for games pitched, agent Rafael Godoy said Sunday night.