Lakeland, Fla. — Imagine the fun they could have had back at Santa Rosa (California) Junior College back in the day. Garrett Hill and his twin brother Evan pitched for the Bearcubs. Garrett, who finished last season with the Tigers’ Double-A affiliate in Erie, is right-handed and Evan pitched left-handed. Imagine the coach filling out
LAKELAND, Fla. — It became a Battle Royale. Two Detroit Tigers prospects: Keider Montero vs. Izaac Pacheco. A young pitcher against an even younger hitter. Neither one giving in. Each one fighting. And it turned into an entertaining, revealing drama that seemed to go on for several minutes. Montero, 21, was on the mound at the backfields
Everybody thought the Detroit Tigers got their shortstop when they came to an eleventh-hour agreement with free-agent Javier Baez. Heck, the Detroit Tigers themselves likely thought the same thing. Recent reports indicate that the Detroit Tigers are still a suitor for perhaps the top player left on the market: Carlos Correa. Correa was the favorite…
LAKELAND, Fla — Austin Bergner stands on the pitcher’s mound in the TigerTown bullpens. The 24-year-old right-hander is throwing his brand-new slider to catcher Cooper Johnson. Positioned behind Bergner is Detroit Tigers‘ minor-league pitching director Gabe Ribas, a 42-year-old who spent the past four seasons as a pitching coordinator with the Los Angeles Dodgers. “A guy like Gabe Ribas is a very similar
LAKELAND, Fla — Austin Bergner stands on the pitcher’s mound in the TigerTown bullpens. The 24-year-old right-hander is throwing his brand-new slider to catcher Cooper Johnson. Positioned behind Bergner is Detroit Tigers‘ minor-league pitching director Gabe Ribas, a 42-year-old who spent the past four seasons as a pitching coordinator with the Los Angeles Dodgers. “A guy like Gabe Ribas is a very similar
Monday’s bargaining meetings between Major League Baseball and the players’ union in Jupiter, Florida, started at noon and lasted deep into the early morning hours. The league has insisted that February 28th was the date that a deal would have to be done to avoid losing regular season games for weeks now, but showed zero
For the first time since 2017, the Detroit Tigers are picking outside of the top ten in the MLB Draft. We first took a stab at projecting the top of this class way back in July, shortly after the 2021 draft concluded, and last week we checked in on how the college class was looking…
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.
Ronald Blum | Associated Press Jupiter, Fla. — Locked-out players and Major League Baseball engaged in a series of intense meetings that stretched into Monday night as they attempted to forge the path to a labor deal before management’s deadline for salvaging opening day on March 31. Commissioner Rob Manfred met with the union twice –
Detroit Tigers pitching prospect Keider Montero throws during spring training minor league minicamp on Monday, Feb. 21, 2022, at Tiger Town in Lakeland, Florida. Tigers5 Detroit Tigers: Projecting the Lakeland Flying Tigers bullpen by Roger Castillo
LAKELAND, Fla. — Finally, the matchup we’ve all been waiting for. Jackson Jobe vs. Izaac Pacheco. They were becoming close friends leading up to the 2021 draft, then the Detroit Tigers picked Jobe at No. 3 overall and Pacheco at No. 39 overall. Now that they’re in the same organization, their relationship has blossomed. They are represented by the
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