With little to no progress being made between the Major League Baseball Players Association and the owners, we unfortunately have another day of no Detroit Tigers Spring Training or MLB coverage for the Motor City faithful. At least we have Lou Whitaker’s number retirement ceremony to look forward to.
LAKELAND, Fla. — No way. This dude cannot be 19. Izaac Pacheco looks like a grown man. He is tall and strong and he looks so familiar. There was just something about him … but I couldn’t place it. The dark hair. The dark eyes. The way he carries himself. The quiet confidence. Pacheco stood in
Ronald Blum | Associated Press Jupiter, Fla. — Sometime soon, lockout costs become real: Max Scherzer would forfeit $232,975 for each regular-season day lost, and Gerrit Cole $193,548. Based on last year’s base salaries that totaled just over $3.8 billion, major league players would combine to lose $20.5 million for each day wiped off the 186-day regular-season
Ronald Blum | Associated Press Jupiter, Fla. — Major League Baseball said only five days remain to salvage March 31 openers and a full season, telling locked out players that games would be canceled if a labor contract is not agreed to by the end of Monday. After the third straight day of negotiations with little movement, MLB went
Tigers pitching prospect Ty Madden put his skills to the test against two of the most highly touted hitting prospects in all of baseball, staring down Spencer Torkelson and Riley Greene during live BP sessions in Lakeland. Meanwhile, the #3 overall pick of the 2021 MLB Draft, Jackson Jobe, faced live professional hitters for the
LAKELAND, Fla. — Jackson Jobe walked into the video room. He was greeted by Detroit Tigers director of pitching Gabe Ribas, upper-levels pitching coordinator Steve Smith, lower-levels pitching coordinator Stephanos Stroop and assistant pitching coordinator Jorge Cordova. “The new guys here have a lot of knowledge,” Jobe said Wednesday. TRENDING: Why Tigers’ Wilmer Flores, brother of MLB veteran,
The Tigers have several intriguing relief prospects in their Minor League minicamp, but Zack Hess was a notable omission from the roster that came out last week. There was a good reason: The former LSU reliever turned High-A West Michigan closer underwent Tommy John surgery last month. Hess will miss the entire 2022 season. He
Lakeland, Fla. — Watching him grind through these hot, Florida days with a smile on his face, joking and jogging, going station-to-station with the rest of the pitchers at the Tigers’ minor league minicamp, stretching, throwing on flat ground, throwing bullpens, doing the tedious fielding drills — you would never know his whole world fell apart
Lakeland, Fla. — If the coaches thought they were going to ambush him, sending up three players who have a chance to reach the big leagues this season in his first live batting practice of Tigers minicamp, well, they picked the wrong dude. Right-hander Ty Madden, the 32nd overall pick in the draft last July,
LAKELAND, Fla. — Jackson Jobe was going to have to experience this sometime, the feeling of a ball he had thrown being hit over the fence. Better to have it happen here against a teammate. The Tigers’ top pitching prospect — and the club’s No. 3 overall per MLB Pipeline — had never given up
LAKELAND, Fla. — Jackson Jobe, the Detroit Tigers‘ top pitching prospect, faced his first live batters as a professional Wednesday at the TigerTown backfields as part of minor-league minicamp. It was like must-see TV. Everything else seemed to stop. Members of the front office crowded around the field where Jobe was pitching, as did fellow prospects Ty
In the past, whenever the Detroit Tigers had their best prospects graduate from the farm system, the depth would plummet. Case in point, the 1984 Tigers squad was built with drafts from the mid-70s that kept the team competitive until the early 90s.
LAKELAND, Fla. — Wilmer De Jesus Flores didn’t come to America as a baseball player. The Detroit Tigers’ pitching prospect wasn’t anything close to a prospect in 2019, when he traveled from Venezuela, his home country, to visit his older brother in the United States. “Here’s the thing,” Flores said. “There’s many opportunities here and
Lakeland, Fla. — Out on the back fields at Joker Marchant Stadium on Tuesday, two of the most intriguingly talented young players at this minicamp took turns fielding ground balls and making throws, then, moving to an adjacent field, knocking fly balls off a pitching machine over the left field fence and on to Lake Parker
LAKELAND, Fla. — Most infield work at the Tigers’ Minor League minicamp is focused on making routine fundamental plays consistently. But sometimes a ground ball gives somebody a chance to make an impression. Manuel Sequera took it on Tuesday. A ball up the middle sent the Venezuelan-born shortstop racing to his left to run it
The Tigers announced Spencer Torkelson as a third baseman when they selected him with the first overall pick in the 2020 draft. That was in spite of the fact that Torkelson was primarily a first baseman/corner outfielder at Arizona State University, where fellow prospects Alika Williams, Drew Swift and Gage Workman generally covered the more demanding positions on the
Take one turn in the batting cage with the 2020 number one overall pick of the MLB draft, Spencer Torkelson. “Tork” hit 30 home runs across 3 levels of the minor leagues last year, and this spring he hopes to open some more eyes in Tigertown.
We check in with one of the most highly touted prospects in all of baseball, outfielder Riley Greene, as he works toward his goal of wearing the Old English D at the big league level. When he does make his Detroit debut, will he be playing left, center or right field? He offers his thoughts
LAKELAND, Fla. — Cristian Santana talks a big game. The 18-year-old shortstop prospect, who worked out with MLB star Juan Soto in the Dominican Republic this offseason, expressed his thankfulness for all the advice from Hall of Famer Alan Trammell during the first two days of full-squad workouts in minor-league minicamp. Then, Santana made a bold statement.
After stops in Lakeland, West Michigan, and Erie, we arrive at the final stop on the road to Detroit, the Detroit Tigers Triple-A team, the Toledo Mud Hens. Toledo is coming off a successful 2021 season in which they won the first ever Triple-A East Midwest Division crown. This was rather an impressive feat for…