LAKELAND, Fla. — Beau Brieske looked filthy — the highest compliment possible for a pitcher. Brieske was on the mound Monday morning on the backfield at TigerTown, throwing a live batting practice, mowing down everybody he faced. He struck out Roberto Campos with ease. It didn’t seem to matter who went up there, Brieske chewed them up. He has
LAKELAND, Fla. — Jackson Jobe and Izaac Pacheco became good friends a few years ago as kids in amateur baseball’s showcase circuit. They fulfilled a shared dream of becoming pro teammates when the Tigers drafted both of them out of high school in last summer’s MLB Draft, then became roommates in the Tigers’ Minor League
Colt Keith is bigger and stronger than ever, so a change in equipment seems like a natural progression for the Tigers 5th Round Pick in the 2020 MLB Draft. After ripping his way through his first professional season in 2021, the 20-year-old infielder is showing off his increased power at Tigers Minor League Camp.
Lakeland, Fla. — You should have seen Eric De La Rosa tearing up the west coast JUCO circuit in 2018. The kid was unbelievable. Long, lanky, hitting right-handed in the three-hole for Grossmont College, a ridiculously high leg kick, just turning and burning on any pitch in the strike zone. And doing damage. Rickey Henderson-type damage.
Lakeland, Fla. — A little perspective check Monday for Tigers’ first-round draft pick Jackson Jobe after he threw to hitters for the second time at this minicamp. He was asked how many home runs he’s given up in his professional career thus far? “Two,” he said, before being quickly corrected. The answer is zero. Minicamp homers
If you have not already checked out our Lakeland Flying Tigers opening day lineup or starting rotation, do so already as this will paint a complete picture on the Detroit Tigers Low-A squad. Last season, as I mentioned before, the Flying Tigers had somewhat of an older pitching staff in 2021 because of the lost…
Ronald Blum | Associated Press Jupiter, Fla. — Max Scherzer and Andrew Miller were leading the players’ bargaining team Monday for the final day of negotiations to end the lockout before Major League Baseball’s deadline to salvage a March 31 start to the regular season and a 162-game schedule. The sides agreed to arrive at Roger
While first baseman and power hitter extraordinaire, Spencer Torkelson, rightly drew most of the ink in the Detroit Tigers’ 2020 draft class, he wasn’t the only Arizona State product the organization selected. Torkelson’s teammate, infielder Gage Workman, was the club’s fourth round pick. In his first year of pro ball, Workman showed the ability to
Over the last few years the Detroit Tigers farm system was headlined by a three-headed pitching dragon in Casey Mize, Matt Manning, and Tarik Skubal. All three have graduated prospect status, leaving the team with more of a two-headed position player monster of Spencer Torkelson and Riley Greene. That begs the question, after losing three
LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers prospect Jackson Jobe is the neat freak. But what about Izaac Pacheco? “He is a slob,” Jobe said, laughing. “I’m always staying on him about making sure things are organized, making sure he’s picking up his trash.” The Tigers took Jobe with their top pick in the 2021 draft — the
LAKELAND, Fla. — Jack Lopez can’t wait for the arrival of an old friend. At 29 years old, Lopez is the oldest position player on the Detroit Tigers‘ minor-league minicamp roster. The Puerto Rican-born infielder signed a minors deal with the organization in early February, after playing seven games for the Boston Red Sox last season. And
MLB Trade Rumors recently posted an article about likely trade candidates that may move. One name I wrote about, Jake Odorizzi, I thought would be a good fit for the back end of the Detroit Tigers rotation. The other name that was mentioned is right-hander Sonny Gray of the Cincinnati Reds.
LAKELAND, Fla. — Colt Keith walked out of the batter’s box shaking his head, then looked back out to the mound. Tanner Kohlhepp, having just fanned Keith, was kicking at the dirt, getting ready for another hitter. It was one of just two swings and misses Kohlhepp induced Friday morning in his first session against
Lakeland, Fla. — The tattoo on his left arm reads, nosce te ipsum, which translated from Latin means, “know thyself.” Sometimes a piece of body art cuts right to the core of a person. “That means a lot to me,” Tigers outfielder Jacob Robson said after spending Sunday morning running through a battery of hitting and defensive drills
LAKELAND, Fla. — Now, this was different. Kind of like watching a baseball game with double vision. A pitching machine set up on a backfield at TigerTown shot out two balls at nearly the same moment — one right after the other — and Detroit Tigers prospect Spencer Torkelson was in the batter’s box. Torkelson moved on the
Major league baseball players and owners met for the fifth straight day on Saturday, with the players making significant concessions on key issues in an effort to reach an agreement in advance of the owners’ imposed deadline of February 28 to start the 2022 season on time. MLB owners rejected the players’ proposal, choosing instead
The Detroit Tigers were supposed to be playing the Washington Nationals on Saturday–instead, minicamp rolls on, and players on the 40-man roster are left on the outside looking in as the player’s association awaits a deal with ownership.
Baseball, famously known as a sport without a clock, is watching the hours and minutes tick away until Monday. That’s when the MLB owners, who locked out the players Dec. 2 after the expiration of the sport’s collective bargaining agreement, say the deadline is for a new CBA. If there’s no deal in place by
Joe Lapointe | Special to the Detroit Free Press Editor’s note: This column contains language used in a 1979 Detroit Free Press article, and other published works, that could be offensive. In that this is Black History Month, this quiz is about the racial integration of the Detroit Tigers. Which of the following statements is true? 1.
LAKELAND, Fla. — The trash talk never stopped. When Riley Greene would hit a ball to the warning track, Josh Lester would quip: You need some more juice. Or when Spencer Torkelson was stuck on 29 home runs late in 2021, Lester would joke: Why does your home run total start with a two? “It