Free Press sports writers Carlos Monarrez and Shawn Windsor come at you from Ford Field to share their immediate reactions and analysis to the Detroit Lions’ NFC Divisional Round victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 31-23. The Lions next play the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC championship game. Kickoff is 6:30 p.m. Sunday in
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
The Tigers announced Thursday that they’ve claimed right-hander Devin Sweet off waivers from the Giants and opened a spot on their 40-man roster by designating infielder Tyler Nevin for assignment. Detroit will be Sweet’s fourth organization in as many months. The right-hander went from the Mariners to the A’s in early September, from the A’s
While the 2024 Major League Baseball season starts to draw closer, one of the main questions of the offseason had remained unanswered. With Diamond Sports, the company that owns the Bally Sports and other regional broadcast rights, going through bankruptcy proceedings and proposing restructuring plans, it has remained a mystery whether the various networks would
One-of-a-kind collection. We’re excited to unveil our real bird fanwear collection for the 2024 season! This one-of-kind collection features lifelike images of the actual bird that inspired our mascot, the mud hen. These alternative marks are a great extension to our world-famous brand and will make great additions to your Mud Hens wardrobe. Limited quantities
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. Always one of the deepest groups of prospects as we
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. It’s an area where the Tigers haven’t had much contribution the last few years. So beyond the latest signings, how are the Tigers faring on the international front and
The Detroit Tigers opened the 2024 international signing period on Monday looking to change their long-standing poor fortunes in talent acquisition in the international free agent market. Of course, they’ve said that for a long, long time, and whether the new front office has done so or not, we won’t know for years to come.