Detroit Tigers president of baseball operations Scott Harris has started the restructuring of his front office. Amateur scouting director Scott Pleis was fired after 15 seasons with the organization, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told the Free Press. An email was sent to members of the scouting department Friday morning. The Tigers would
The Detroit Tigers made some end-of-the-season moves on Friday, which included relieving some of the hitting coach staff of their duties. The announcement came after the offense struggled mightily under the watch of Scott Coolbaugh.
Coaches from the Detroit Tigers hugged the players and said their goodbyes after Wednesday’s regular-season finale in Seattle. Some players traveled home instead of taking the team plane back to Detroit. Miguel Cabrera couldn’t wait to catch his flight to Miami. Spencer Torkelson, who came back for a meet-and-greet at MGM Grand Casino, was ready
Detroit — AJ Hinch already feels comfortable enough with his new boss to joke around with him. Scott Harris, the Tigers’ new president of baseball operations, was hired away from the San Francisco Giants less than three weeks ago. But his first official day on the job was Thursday, and that led to a little
The Detroit Tigers are coming off a season in which they had high expectations for the first time in half a decade and ended up finishing with a record of 66-96. That rightfully got Al Avila fired, and Scott Harris hired to try to right the ship.
The Wild Card round of the 2022 postseason begins today, but for the majority of teams and players, the offseason is now underway. With that will come plenty of roster formalities, including veteran players who’ve been outrighted off their respective teams’ rosters reaching minor league free agency. This week, there have been 34 such instances
Hitting coach Scott Coolbaugh and quality control coach Josh Paul will not return, manager A.J. Hinch announced in a Friday morning meeting with beat writers and columnists. Third-base coach Ramon Santiago and assistant hitting coach Mike Hessman have been reassigned and offered positions on the Minor League side. The rest of the coaching staff is
Tigers manager A.J. Hinch announced a series of changes to his coaching staff this morning (Twitter link via Jason Beck of MLB.com). Most notably, hitting coach Scott Coolbaugh and quality control coach Josh Paul will not return to the organization in 2023. Meanwhile, assistant hitting coach Mike Hessman and third base coach Ramon Santiago will
Here we are once again on the outside looking in at the postseason. It’s been a rough season for Detroit Tigers fans, but as baseball fans, now we get to enjoy postseason baseball without the joy and/or pain of having a stake in the matter. The new format is also going to play out pretty
Detroit — From a business perspective, changing the hitting coaches was a no-brainer. The Tigers, who scored the fewest runs, hit the fewest home runs and extra-base hits in baseball, were shut out a modern-day record 22 times and had the highest strikeout percentage and second-lowest walk rate in the American League, parted ways with
DETROIT, MI – AUGUST 30: Riley Greene #31 of the Detroit Tigers talks with hitting coach Scott Coolbaugh #53 during a game against the Seattle Mariners at Comerica Park on August 30, 2022, in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Duane Burleson/Getty Images)
Manager A.J. Hinch refused to shake up his coaching staff during the season, claiming the 24-hour news cycle wouldn’t fix the problem. But the Detroit Tigers‘ offense, churning out historically bad results, never improved. Hinch wouldn’t budge from his midseason stance. On Friday, the inevitable happened. The Tigers announced that hitting coach Scott Coolbaugh will
Shortly after the conclusion of the World Series, the major league baseball off season will begin in earnest. The Detroit Tigers are expected to have a turbulent off season, with plenty of changes to the 40 man roster as they recover from an abysmal performance in the 2022 season and retool their lineup for the
The Detroit Tigers have been hoping Spencer Torkelson would settle in nicely for the team’s second half of the season. However, after a rough first half, he was demoted to the Triple-A squad to join the Toledo Mud Hens.
Now, let’s take some season-ending awards to the system level. These are our picks for Hitting and Pitching Prospects of the Year for each of the 30 Minor League organizations. In order to qualify for this list, a player must have spent at least half the season in the Minors and appeared on their team’s
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. Matthew Boyd was a free agent pitcher coming off flexor tendon surgery with an uncertain timetable for his return when he got a call from the Giants and their
The Detroit Tigers, despite losing their final three games of the 2022 season, went 11-5 in their final 16 games, all after former San Francisco Giants general manager Scott Harris was hired as the franchise’s president of baseball operations. In past years, that would have left the Tigers — whose late-season spurt moved them from
The Detroit Tigers have missed the playoffs for the eighth consecutive year, which is now tied with the Los Angeles Angels for the longest playoff drought in baseball. But just because the Tigers fell short of the postseason yet again, doesn’t mean that fans can’t watch and enjoy the greatness that is playoff baseball.
The Detroit Tigers signed Eduardo Rodríguez to a five-year, $77 million contract this offseason. During former General Manager Al Avila’s attempts to add in some talent this offseason, he grabbed a run-of-the-mill southpaw in Rodríguez.
SEATTLE — Tucker Barnhart, a nine-year veteran catcher traded to the Detroit Tigers last November, received a simple question in front of his locker in the visitor’s clubhouse at T-Mobile Park, just hours before Game 162. “What was this year like for you?” Barnhart cracked a smile, then laughed. “How much time do you got?” he