LAKELAND, Fla. — The chirps of the birds that have called Joker Marchant Stadium home all winter blended with the pop of pitches hitting catchers’ mitts, both at home plate and in the bullpens. Between, music from the stadium sound system was just loud enough to notice, but not loud enough to drown out the
Ronald Blum | Associated Press New York — Deputy Commissioner Dan Halem and chief union negotiator Bruce Meyer met for 1 1/2 hours Thursday and discussed the major issues in the stalled talks to reach a deal that would end Major League Baseball’s lockout. Union general counsel Ian Penny and MLB Executive Vice President Morgan Sword
Lakeland, Fla. — Andre Lipcius almost seemed embarrassed to talk about it. “It’s a spring training at-bat,” he said. True. The Tigers split the minor league minicamp into two teams — Team Horton and Team Trammell — and played a controlled, six-inning scrimmage at Joker Marchant Stadium Thursday. But on a team with top prospects Riley Greene, Spencer
The third overall pick of the 2021 MLB Draft is finding his way through his first spring training as a professional. Jackson Jobe sits down with Dan Dickerson in an exclusive interview for Tigers TV.
LAKELAND, Fla. — The Detroit Tigers are at Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium for an intrasquad scrimmage at 10:30 a.m. Thursday featuring the franchise’s top prospects. The two groups are Team Horton, wearing gray uniforms, and Team Trammell, wearing white uniforms. There is one unofficial umpire (director of coaching Ryan Sienko) stationed behind home plate. Right-hander Beau Brieske received
LAKELAND, Fla. — Sometimes, one small question can take a story in a surprising place. I was standing outside the Detroit Tigers complex, talking to Jordan Marks, a right-handed pitching prospect. He grew up in Sarnia, Ontario, across the St. Clair River from Michigan; and his grandfather is a huge Tigers fan. It seemed like such
The Major League Baseball lockout will be over at some point. When the games return, Opening Day — metro Detroit’s favorite spring holiday/party — will be rescheduled. Will it feel different? Maybe a little. More likely, though, stadiums across the country — including Comerica Park — will be packed, because that’s what we do. By July (or
One of the great debates among the fanbase was whether the Detroit Tigers would opt to start their young position player prospects on the MLB roster or if the organization would continue to slow play their development by assigning them to Triple-A Toledo, a destination in which both already have experience.
LAKELAND, Fla. — The Major League Baseball Players Association on Tuesday rejected a collective bargaining agreement offer from Major League Baseball leading up to the owners’ self-imposed 5 p.m. deadline, leading MLB commissioner Rob Manfred to cancel the first two series of the regular season. Detroit Tigers catcher Tucker Barnhart is an MLBPA player representative. He has been in a leadership
The Major League Baseball lockout will be over at some point. When the games return, Opening Day — metro Detroit’s favorite spring holiday/party — will be rescheduled. Will it feel different? Maybe a little. More likely, though, stadiums across the country — including Comerica Park — will be packed, because that’s what we do. By July (or
Lakeland, Fla. — If Michael Fulmer had his way, he’d be down here, going through his usual spring training paces on the back fields, throwing his bullpens and live batting practices and easing himself into Grapefruit League games. But this isn’t about Michael Fulmer right now. This is about something much bigger. “Frustrating is a
LAKELAND, Fla. — There were no bats flying over dugouts and screens on the back fields at Tigertown this time as Dylan Smith worked his way through a handful of hitting prospects in Minor League minicamp. But he wasn’t getting hit around, either. Smith gave up a solid line drive to Austin Meadows, but not
Dan Dickerson goes one-on-one with Dylan Smith, who has taken an unusual path to become the Tigers 3rd round pick in the 2022 draft. Now, the hard-throwing right-hander out of Alabama is impressing many while embracing the new training techniques in the Tigers system.
LAKELAND, Fla. — It felt like a funeral in a ballpark. Less than 24 hours after MLB canceled the first week of regular-season games, the mood at TigerTown was dreary. There were sad faces and gloomy whispers — and that was just a small group of reporters gathered between fields on a cold morning — but the Detroit
LAKELAND, Fla. — This was supposed to be the biggest spring training yet for the Detroit Tigers‘ top prospects. First baseman Spencer Torkelson and outfielder Riley Greene were competing for spots on the Opening Day roster, and if everything went as planned, they would make their anticipated MLB debuts in Seattle on March 31. Now, they’re preparing
Amid the fire and ire baseball’s labor strife has unleashed, questions are in order as Major League Baseball players and owners duel to a point of mutual incineration over a new contract that isn’t being resolved and that began, officially Tuesday, to prune games from the 2022 calendar. Among the inquiries: Do you wonder why
Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo said his team’s leadership continues to sputter as the Spartans lost to rival Michigan on March 2, 2022. For the complete story: https://bit.ly/3szILtO For more Detroit and Michigan news, sports and entertainment, follow the Detroit Free Press on: Facebook – https://bit.ly/2T7zuV9 Twitter – https://bit.ly/2JeixbW Instagram – https://bit.ly/2Chb7hR Online –
Marathon negotiations on Monday gave Detroit Tigers fans some hope of a potential resolution, but reports of optimism turned out to be manufactured by the owners as a way to make players look bad when things inevitably went south on Tuesday.
Dr. Tunishai Ford almost lost the will to live after she was diagnosed with Stage 4 Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1998. But after undergoing months of treatment and becoming cancer-free later that year, the way Ford viewed the world changed. It was this new perspective that inspired Ford to establish Your Own Uniqueness, Inc., a non-profit
The worst nightmare of all Detroit Tigers baseball fans and all fans alike has now become a reality, as it has been announced that Opening Day has been delayed until further notice due to the inability of the MLB and MLBPA to reach a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement.