LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers prospect Spencer Torkelson took his position at first base. He is no longer a third baseman. That experiment is over. “All right, here we go!” Alan Trammell said. Trammell, the Tigers Hall of Fame shortstop, held a fungo bat in his right hand, a baseball in his left. Trammell celebrated his
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LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers prospect Riley Greene is aware there’s an opening in center field on the Opening Day roster. The 21-year-old, the fifth overall pick in 2019, has put in his application. He wants the job. “I love playing center field,” Greene said Monday, after the first full-squad workouts of minor-league minicamp. “Center fielder is the best,
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Lakeland, Fla. — The two offensive cornerstones of the Tigers’ future were on the back fields at Joker Marchant Stadium on Monday — rocking the Old English D in the bright home whites — taking part in what likely will be the final minor-league minicamp of their careers. First baseman Spencer Torkelson, 22 now and looking leaner
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Ronald Blum |  Associated Press Jupiter, Fla. — With perhaps a week left to salvage opening day, union head Tony Clark attended negotiations on Monday for the first time since Major League Baseball’s lockout began, accompanied by New York Mets stars Max Scherzer, Francisco Lindor and Brandon Nimmo. The Cardinals’ Paul Goldschmidt, the Yankees’ Jameson Taillon, the Reds’
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LAKELAND, Fla. — One round after another, Spencer Torkelson took batting practice swings at Tigertown on Monday, sending drives toward the fire training facility beyond the practice field fence. But the slugging prospect’s best offering on a tee came in the interview session afterward. Asked if he had done anything fitness-wise in his offseason workouts
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LAKELAND, Fla. — Click-clack. Click-clack. They came out of the Detroit Tigers building — the future walking toward the back fields at TigerTown. Spencer Torkelson and Riley Greene started out walking together, their spikes clacking off the concrete, toward about 35 fans standing behind a chain-link fence. “Hey guys!” somebody said. TOP PROSPECT: Potential for Jackson Jobe? ‘No.
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LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers right-hander Zack Hess underwent Tommy John surgery in late January. The procedure took place in Arlington, Texas. He will miss the entire 2022 season. Hess, a seventh-round pick from LSU in the 2019 draft, pitched for High-A West Michigan and Double-A Erie last season, along with making 10 appearances out of the
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Felecia Evans-Smith wanted her son’s “first day of school” picture — for the last time. “Have somebody take your picture,” she told her son, Dylan Smith, who was also the Detroit Tigers‘ third-round selection in the 2021 MLB draft. So this professional baseball player — who had already signed a $1.1 million contract with the
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LAKELAND, Fla. — Notre Dame pitching coach Chuck Ristano thought back to the first time he played catch with Tanner Kohlhepp. Well, it wasn’t really a game of catch. Because Ristano couldn’t keep track of the baseball. “It was the first time I ever played catch with one of our pitchers and whiffed,” said Ristano, in his 12th
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