Adding to their ongoing series of organizational shuffles, the Tigers will be hunting for a new Triple-A manager in 2023. Lloyd McClendon, who was Toledo Mud Hens skipper in 2022, and who led the Mud Hens to one of their best seasons in recent years (87-63), will not return next season, according to a source
Once the World Series is over, the offseason begins. Once the offseason begins, so will the Detroit Tigers roster purge. A whopping nine players are set to come off the 60-day injured list once the World Series comes to a close. Players who are put on the 60-day IL are technically not apart of the…
Jason Foley polished up his game last offseason. The primary focus was his mental game, evident when he entered spring training overflowing with confidence. His sinker, velocity, pitch movements, arm angle and ground-ball rate have intrigued the Detroit Tigers for a few years, and after an 11-game taste of the big leagues last season, he
In accordance with ancient Arizona Fall League tradition, members of the Salt River Rafters put an extra scare into the opposition by taking batting practice in costume on Monday. The ghastly Halloween ritual worked most fiendishly for the Cardinals’ Jordan Walker — MLB’s No. 6 prospect — who shocked the Scottsdale Scorpions with a homer,
Despite taking on the position at a later age, Josh Crouch seems like a natural behind the plate. After a breakthrough season spent mostly in West Michigan, the up-and-coming catcher is now ranked among the Tigers top 30 prospects.
Join us as we kick off the holiday season and turn on the lights and 45-foot tree at Hensville on Friday, November 18. Part of downtown Toledo’s Light Up the City celebration, this fun, family-friendly event will begin at 5 p.m. with music and festive drinks for purchase at Fleetwood’s Join us as we kick
The World Series may be the talk of baseball right now, but the Detroit Tigers are far from it. Why not catch up with some prospect content about some of the Tigers’ future players who are out in Arizona partaking in the 2022 Arizona Fall League (AFL)?
Detroit — From 2017 through 2021, the San Diego Padres could boast a farm system that was ranked in the top 10 by industry experts. The man in charge of those drafts, Mark Conner, is now the Tigers’ director of amateur scouting. The Tigers announced the hiring of Conner on Sunday. He’d been with the
DETROIT — Less than a week after the Tigers tapped into the Rays’ front office for someone to run their amateur and international scouting efforts, they’ve tapped into the Padres’ front office for an amateur scouting director. Mark Conner, who served as San Diego’s scouting director for seven seasons before becoming a special assistant last
The Tigers have made another addition to their front office this offseason, reportedly plucking Mark Conner from the Padres to serve as the team’s amateur scouting director under recently hired assistant general manager Rob Metzler, per Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press. Conner joined the Padres as an amateur scout in 2010 and was
Before she became a sports media star, before she drew the ire of former President Donald Trump, and before she developed into a national columnist and podcast host, Jemele Hill was a Free Press sports writer. The Detroit native and Michigan State alumnus who started her journalism career as an apprentice with the Free Press,
The Detroit Tigers have gone out and hired another member of their re-tooled front office. There is still more to be done, but they have added in a new member of the scouting department. The team went out and hired a new scouting director.
Spencer Torkelson‘s swing is short, simple and compact without excess movement. He struggles when he expands the strike zone and his swing becomes long and steep. When he is locked in, like in his college years at Arizona State, his bat path is direct to the ball and powerful. Torkelson, who turned 23 in August,
PEORIA, Ariz. — On a day of resounding shots off the bat from Salt River, Colt Keith’s mammoth 459-foot homer stood out above the rest. The sixth-ranked Tigers prospect collected his first AFL roundtripper amidst a 15-run deluge of offense which saw the Rafters knock off the Javelinas at Peoria Sports Complex. “Definitely the best
Only a few days after the Detroit Tigers hired Rob Metzler away from the Tampa Bay Rays as the Vice-President and Assistant General Manager to run the scouting department, Metzler now has his scouting director. The Tigers raided another good organization to find their man, hiring long-time San Diego Padres scouting director, Mark Conner, to
The Detroit Tigers have a new scouting director. Mark Conner, who has worked for the San Diego Padres since 2010, has been hired as the Tigers’ amateur scouting director under new assistant general manager Rob Metzler, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Free Press on Saturday. Conner served as the Padres’ scouting director
The Detroit Tigers starting rotation underwent quite the amount of adversity in 2022. They were nearly 20 pitchers down the list of players who made at least one start on the season. Injuries decimated the rotation the whole time.
Game 1: 10/28/2022- Minute Maid Park, Houston, TX Pitching Matchup: RHP Justin Verlander vs. RHP Aaron Nola Game 2: 10/29/2022- Minute Maid Park, Houston, TX Pitching Matchup: LHP Framber Valdez vs. RHP Zack Wheeler Game 3: 10/31/2022- Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, PA Pitching Matchup: TBH Game 4: 11/01/2022- Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, PA Pitching Matchup:
Tigers pitching prospect Dylan Smith impressed in his first season of professional baseball following a standout collegiate career at the University of Alabama.
The Detroit Tigers re-signed left-handed reliever Miguel Del Pozo, who has pitched in 89 games out of the bullpen for Triple-A Toledo over the past two seasons, this week to a minor league contract with an invitation to MLB spring training. The 30-year-old pitched five games for the Tigers in 2021 but didn’t reach the