The Tigers have signed right-hander Drew Anderson to a minor league deal, reports Evan Woodbery of MLive. It’s unclear if the righty will be in major league camp with the Tigers. Anderson, 30 in March, got scattered major league time from 2017 to 2021. He suited up for the Phillies, White Sox and Rangers, appearing
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On Monday morning, Eric Longenhagen at FanGraphs released his Detroit Tigers prospect list for the 2024 season. Unsurprisingly, it began with right-handed starting pitcher Jackson Jobe at the top of the pile. Unlike MLB Pipeline and Baseball America, who cap their organizational rankings to 30 and 10 players respectively, FanGraphs does not limit the slots
This story was excerpted from Jason Beck’s Tigers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. A quarter-century after Gabe Alvarez was a promising young third baseman for the Tigers, the former USC All-American has developed into a rising star in the coaching ranks. Alvarez’s two seasons
MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2024 Top 100 Prospects list at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 26, with a one-hour show on MLB Network and MLB.com. Leading up to the release of the Top 100, we’ll examine baseball’s top 10 prospects at each position. Four of the five best third-base prospects from this time
The Orioles announced they’ve reacquired infielder Tyler Nevin in a trade with the Tigers. Baltimore sends cash to Detroit, who had designated the right-handed hitter for assignment last week. The O’s now have 39 players on the 40-man roster. Nevin heads back to Baltimore after a year away. During the 2022-23 offseason, the Orioles had designated
Before our brand new prospect rankings come out later this week, there have been a few smaller news items regarding the farm system to catch up on. The Tigers announced most of their 2024 international free agent class last week, as we reported here, but the most interesting player is likely their 2025 top free
MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2024 Top 100 Prospects list at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 26, with a one-hour show on MLB Network and MLB.com. Leading up to the release of the Top 100, we’ll examine baseball’s top 10 prospects at each position. If you can hit anywhere, you’ve given yourself a chance.
It’s always fun to look at MLB projections before the season and see whose numbers jump off the page. Here are 10 players with eye-popping projections for 2024 — five hitters and five pitchers. 1) Ronald Acuña Jr., Braves: .318 AVG, 37 HR, 55 SB, 7.3 WAR Start with the reigning National League MVP, who’s
Spring Training is drawing ever closer, with pitchers and catchers beginning to report in about three weeks. But there remains much to be determined when it comes to what rosters will look like before that happens. What might each team do to improve its roster before Spring Training gets underway in Arizona and Florida next
The Tigers and right-hander have avoided arbitration with right-hander Casey Mize, per Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. The righty will make $840K this year and there’s a $3.1MM club option for 2025. Even if that option were to be turned down, he would still be under club control via arbitration. It will be a salary
The Tigers and right-hander Casey Mize avoided an arbitration hearing by agreeing to terms on a one-year contract with a club option for 2025 on Friday. Mize will make an $830,000 base salary this season. The Tigers at season’s end will either exercise their $3.1 million option for 2025 or buy it out for $10,000,
The Detroit Tigers settled their last remaining potential arbitration case by coming to terms with right handed pitcher Casey Mize on what qualifies as a multi year contract. The deal will pay Mize a salary of $830,000 for the 2024 season with a club option for $3.1 million in 2025. Mize had requested $840,000 in
This story was excerpted from Jason Beck’s Tigers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. Jack Bushell was a two-way player as a teenager in Australia who had just committed to pitching full-time barely two years ago. He couldn’t have imagined being on the
This one may get divisive, so I will say right up front: there is no way to have one right or wrong answer for this question, only because of how baseball changes over the decades, how records are kept, and what value we use to measure a player’s worth or greatness. All of those things