LAKELAND, Fla. — The Detroit Tigers are at Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium for an intrasquad scrimmage at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. The game features the organization’s best prospects. The two groups were Team Trammell, wearing white uniforms, and Team Horton, wearing grays. Two umpires were active for the game, one behind home plate and
LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers prospect Parker Meadows yanked a ball foul during live batting practice on a back field at TigerTown. And he was overjoyed. Strange, right? But let him explain his excitement. “I’m early on everything,” he told me about a week ago. He was seeing the ball and turning on pitches, getting out
Lakeland, Fla. — Tarik Skubal hadn’t booked his flight yet, but he was ready. After negotiations between the players and owners lasted throughout the day Sunday, the Tigers’ 25-year-old left-hander did what he always does on the last day of the offseason, he spent one last night with his family – which has been expanded
Lakeland, Fla. — The Athletic reported on Friday that four Major League Baseball owners, including the Tigers’ Christopher Ilitch, objected to raising the competitive balance tax in the owners’ best and final proposal on a new collective bargaining agreement that was presented to the players association earlier this week. That proposal was rejected immediately by
LAKELAND, Fla. — Ryan Kreidler has read the quotes from housemate and fellow Tigers prospect Parker Meadows about the 6-foot-5 outfielder sleeping in a twin bed. “I know he’s telling all you guys, ‘Aw, my feet are hanging off the edge,’” Kreidler said, breaking into a smile. “He’s fine. He hasn’t complained one time. There’s
In the spirit of Benjamin Hill, who does a Minor League Ballpark Guide, I decided to do something similar solely based on the Detroit Tigers farm system. Last season, I hit the road with a few of the staff members here at Motor City Bengals and was able to hit all four minor league stops.…
LAKELAND, Fla. — Maybe, we should boycott Little Caesars for a few weeks. Or at least until the Detroit Tigers start playing baseball again. That might send the right kind of message. Or maybe, we should boycott MotorCity Casino and the Detroit Red Wings, too. How would that feel, Christopher Ilitch, as someone whose family
Tigers owner Christopher Ilitch opposed raising the competitive balance tax in Major League Baseball’s final offer to the players earlier this week, according to Evan Drellich of The Athletic. MLB canceled opening day on Tuesday over a labor dispute which centered on the luxury tax. The players wanted the tax at $238 million. The owners
LAKELAND, Fla. — The Detroit Tigers are at Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium for an intrasquad scrimmage at 10:30 a.m. Friday. The game features the organization’s best prospects. The two groups were Team Trammell, wearing gray uniforms, and Team Horton, wearing whites. Two umpires were active for the game, one behind home plate and
Associated Press New York — Locked-out Major League Baseball players are starting a $1 million fund to support workers impacted by canceled games. The players’ association said Friday the fund will be administered by the union and the AFL-CIO. It will be distributed to stadium workers and others caused financial hardship by baseball’s ninth work
March 4: Angels owner Arte Moreno, D-backs owner Ken Kendrick, Reds owner Bob Castellini and Tigers owner Chris Ilitch were all opposed to proposing a $220MM CBT threshold, per Evan Drellich and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic. Drellich and Rosenthal add that some concerned owners have pointed to the spending of the Dodgers and the
Per the report in the Athletic late last night by Evan Drellich, ($) four Major League Baseball owners, Bob Castellini of the Reds, Ken Kendrick of the Diamondbacks, Arte Moreno of the Angels and Chris Ilitch of the Detroit Tigers, were opposed to raising the competitive balance tax.
LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers owner Christopher Ilitch doesn’t want baseball owners to have the freedom to spend more money on players, and he opposed Major League Baseball’s final offer sent Tuesday to the Major League Baseball Players Association. The players’ union rejected, leading to MLB commissioner Rob Manfred’s cancellation of regular season games. The MLB’s lockout continues
LAKELAND, Fla. — Bright sunshine. Warm breeze. Birds chirping. And a baseball game in Joker Marchant Stadium. Ahhhhh, yes please, more of that. It’s like a magical elixir for the soul. Yes, it was only an intrasquad scrimmage of Detroit Tigers minor leaguers. But it was something, and right now, at a time when MLB is
The primary cause of the stalemate between major league baseball players and owners is MLB’s failure to agree to a reasonable increase in the Competitive Balance Tax (CBT) threshold. The owners “final and best” offer included a paltry hike of less than five percent, from $210 to $220 million in 2022, followed by no increase
LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers prospect Andre Lipcius learned a lot about his swing last season. The 23-year-old infielder was picked in the third round of the 2019 draft following three seasons at Tennessee. The COVID-19 pandemic canceled his 2020 season, making last year’s campaign his first full pro season. Lipcius hit .243 in 116 games. TRENDING: Tigers union rep Tucker
Spencer Turnbull was off to a strong start to the 2021 season, working 50 innings of 2.88 ERA ball with a massive 57.2% ground-ball rate over his first nine starts — one of which was a no-hitter against the Mariners. After those productive first two months, the right-hander landed on the injured list with what was
For the past few weeks we’ve been projecting the rosters for each of the Detroit Tigers’ four full-season minor-league affiliates. Rogelio has been handling the pitching, while I’ve been projecting the lineups. Today we turn our attention the West Michigan Whitecaps, Detroit’s High-A affiliate.
Lakeland, Fla. — It was almost like a scene from a bad movie. One minute Spencer Turnbull was at the pinnacle of his career, throwing a no-hitter in Seattle on May 18, and the next minute, poof — gone. Never heard from again. That might seem a bit dramatic, but it had to feel that way to
Coming out of the 2020 pandemic-shortened — or in the case of Minor League Baseball, cancelled — season, no one really knew what to expect from players as they returned to action in 2021. Some prospects showed up ready to go and took big steps forward. Others struggled or got hurt. The beautiful thing about