Detroit Tigers catcher Jake Rogers joins the “Days of Roar” podcast to chat with Evan and Mark about Tarik Skubal winning the 2024 American League Cy Young Award. Rogers also talks about calling pitches and making in-game adjustments, his relationship with manager A.J. Hinch, being named a Gold Glove finalist, why “pitching chaos” worked in
With Paul Skenes and Luis Gil taking home their leagues’ respective 2024 Rookie of the Year Awards, it’s time to turn our attention to 2025. On the latest edition of the MLB Pipeline Podcast, Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo filled out their hypothetical ballots for the year ahead, selecting the players they believe could take
The Tigers recently attempted to extend reigning AL Cy Young award winner Tarik Skubal, according to a report from Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press, but Petzold suggests the offer from Detroit was not competitive and the sides ultimately did not come close to hammering out a deal. It’s certainly understandable that Detroit would
The Tigers claimed lefty reliever Bailey Horn from the Red Sox, according to an announcement from Boston. The Sox had not previously announced a DFA for Horn, so their 40-man roster count drops to 39. An Auburn product, Horn has bounced around the league as a pro. He was drafted by the White Sox, traded to
The deadline to tender a contract to arbitration-eligible players is tonight at 7pm CT. Here’s a rundown of the players on American League teams that have been non-tendered today. This post will be updated as more decisions are revealed. MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz projected salaries for all players eligible for arbitration last month. All players who are
Tigers manager A.J. Hinch earned American League Manager of the Year consideration in part with his ability to play matchups and platoons to his advantage time after time. He’ll go into 2025 with two of his key matchup infielders back in the fold. The Tigers’ only player non-tendered leading into Friday night’s deadline was a
Friday night at 8 p.m. ET was the deadline for MLB teams to tender contract offers to their eligible players and finalize their 40-man rosters in advance of the Rule 5 draft in December. The Tigers made offers to everyone eligible on the roster, and agreed to one-year deals with Andy Ibáñez and Zach McKinstry,
The deadline for teams to tender contracts to arbitration-eligible players is tonight at 7pm CT. Throughout the day, we’ll surely see a handful of arb-eligible players agree to terms with their clubs to avoid a hearing. These so-called “pre-tender deals” usually, although not always, involve players who were borderline non-tender candidates. Rather than run the risk
On Wednesday night, Detroit Tigers’ ace Tarik Skubal became the fifth man in franchise history to take home the American League Cy Young award. A remarkable six-year evolution from the former ninth rounder reached a peak during his masterful 2024 campaign. The lefty had everything working all season long. We saw power and precision balanced
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. Josue Briceno was staring at something close to a lost season when he arrived in Arizona for the Fall League a month and a half ago. A rundown on
We all like to talk about the good old days of our beloved teams, especially during the rockier points of a rebuild, when the youthful new recruits are just getting their legs under them. With the Tigers, we finally started to see those young players start to gel in 2024 and glimmers of the team
The Astros have called re-signing Alex Bregman their top offseason priority. Whether that’ll happen remains to be seen, but Jon Heyman of the New York Post writes that Houston has made an offer to their longtime third baseman. It’s unclear whether any other teams have made a formal proposal, but Heyman reports that Bregman’s camp has