We continue our series of Detroit Tigers 40-man roster previews with Miguel Del Pozo, a 29-year-old southpaw originally from the Dominican Republic. The Detroit Tigers have been looking for solid left-handed relief pitching for years, but with Gregory Soto entrenched as the team’s closer, Tyler Alexander serving as a lefty long reliever, and Andrew Chafin…
LAKELAND, Fla. — The best sports stories come out of nowhere. Well, that’s not entirely true, is it? Because somebody saw Akil Baddoo coming last spring. Al Avila, for one, though even the Detroit Tigers general manager couldn’t have predicted the Baddoo-mania that swept through Detroit last April … and he drafted him. Baddoo’s family,
LAKELAND, Fla. — The Detroit Tigers and manager AJ Hinch are serious about the creative idea of carrying three catchers for the 2022 season: Tucker Barnhart, Eric Haase and Dustin Garneau. With Opening Day less than two weeks away, Hinch has a handful of decisions to make about his roster. The biggest choice is whether top prospects Spencer
LAKELAND, Fla. — Tigers fans have been dreaming for the past couple years about Riley Greene and Spencer Torkelson homering back-to-back in Detroit’s lineup. On Monday, they came within feet of providing fans at Joker Marchant Stadium a sneak preview of what’s to come at Comerica Park. The Tigers’ dynamic duo of hitting prospects combined
LAKELAND, Fla. — The Detroit Tigers lost to the New York Yankees, 11-7, on Monday at Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium, dropping to 4-5 (with two ties) in Grapefruit League play. What happened On the first pitch of the game, Tigers left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez fell behind on the scoreboard. He Rodriguez allowed a leadoff home run
Lakeland, Fla. — It felt like the right time to ask. It was not. On a day when five more players were reassigned out of camp, and the roster battles became more clearly defined, manager AJ Hinch was asked if top prospects Spencer Torkelson and Riley Greene had made the team. “Too soon,” Hinch said Monday.
LAKELAND, Fla. — The Detroit Tigers lost to the New York Yankees, 11-7, on Monday at Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium, dropping to 4-5 (with two ties) in Grapefruit League play. What happened On the first pitch of the game, Tigers right-hander Eduardo Rodriguez fell behind on the scoreboard. Rodriguez allowed a leadoff home run to
Detroit Tigers manager A. J. Hinch is pretty straight to the point when speaking to the media. Today, he addressed the question about Spencer Torkelson and Riley Greene making the team. It was a typical morning down in spring training as the Detroit Tigers beat writers gathered around to talk to A. J. Hinch as…
The Detroit Tigers are just 11 days from beginning their season, but Detroit sports fans have once again been drawn in by the NFL’s unstoppable attention machine. The Detroit Lions will be the focus of this season of Hard Knocks, HBO’s annual behind-the-scenes look at NFL squads.
Lakeland, Fla. — Tigers general manager Al Avila has said often that he considers third baseman Jeimer Candelario one of the club’s foundation pieces. “For sure, he’s a guy that we would count on here going into the future,” he said at the end of last season. But you can’t fault Candelario for being at least
LAKELAND, Fla. — It’s a better topic for Detroit Tigers manager AJ Hinch to address, but the potential Opening Day starting lineup came up in a Monday morning conversation with second baseman Jonathan Schoop. “It’s pretty deep,” Schoop said. “It’s a deep lineup. You see some young guys in there, some veterans in there. That makes
Amid the myriad signs last season the Detroit Tigers were back to being a real, all-grown-up Major League Baseball franchise (on the field, at least) — AJ Hinch! Casey Mize! Robbie Grossman! BAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!* — there was this: For the first time in four seasons, the catcher position did not appear to be a, well, for lack of a
If there’s one quality A.J. Hinch is looking for in players this season, it’s the versatility to create a winning ball club and culture within the Detroit Tigers. That seems to be the focus this spring training, and no one is showcasing their versatility better than Detroit Tigers outfielder Akil Baddoo.
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SARASOTA, Fla. — We could start with the wine and the food, and that would be grand, because the Detroit Tigers’ new catcher, Tucker Barnhart, enjoys both —and talking about both, especially with his new manager, AJ Hinch, who used to be a catcher and who loves talking wine and food, too. But Tucker Barnhart isn’t
Through the Detroit Tigers’ first nine games of Grapefruit League play, and with the regular season less than two weeks away, it’s difficult to make a compelling argument that top prospects Riley Greene and Spencer Torkelson shouldn’t go north with the team. While spring training numbers don’t matter, the two already looked prepared to test
LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers pitching prospect Jackson Jobe is starting his professional career in Low-A Lakeland and will face inning limits early in the season with the goal of pitching into September. The 6-foot-3, 200-pound right-hander, drafted No. 3 overall in 2021, arrived in Lakeland for minor-league minicamp in mid-February. Jobe, 19, transitioned to minor-league
Jeimer Candelario’s took his hot bat on the road to Sarasota, where he also found time to share his thoughts on the optimism surrounding this Tigers team heading into the 2022 season.
Welcome to week 3 of the “Sunday MCB notes” a recap of all things Detroit Tigers & Major League Baseball and anything else that catches our eye. This week’s recap includes the recent cuts in spring training & the ones that are happening tomorrow, a few Tigers outfielders continue their strong spring trainings and a look…
Tali Mize is patient with her husband Casey’s methodical approach to pizza-making. Let’s see if the same focus and attention to detail that made him the first overall pick of the 2018 draft also yields a similar result in the kitchen.