All of those graduations will mean that fresh faces will need to replace them on MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 Prospects list. Below, we present a prospect from each organization who could ascend to the Top 100 in 2024. Blue Jays: Gunnar Hoglund, RHP (No. 4)Hoglund has twice been a top-40 Draft pick and could have
It’s been a minute, but Jackson Jobe can remember the last time he pitched to an actual hitter. “Last pitch I threw was May 14,” the 19-year-old right-hander said from his home in Oklahoma in a Wednesday afternoon call with reporters. Jobe’s professional career so far has been limited to bullpen sessions, mound work and
The Tigers announced Thursday that they’ve promoted Triple-A manager Gary Jones to the Major League staff, where he’ll serve as the team’s new first base coach. The promotion comes in the wake of the tragic death of Detroit first base coach Kimera Bartee, passed away at just 49 years of age earlier this offseason due
First and foremost, thank you for everyone who has been checking out the 2nd annual Motor City Detroit Tigers Top 20 prospect list. Each person put out a list of their Top 20 and, thanks to Chris Brown’s magic, that is how our rankings were determined.
DETROIT — Lloyd McClendon could get a chance to manage Spencer Torkelson and Riley Greene after all. Just over a year after McClendon managed Detroit down the stretch of the 2020 season and interviewed for the full-time job, the longtime Tigers coach returns to the organization to play a role in the team’s youth movement.
As you may have read a little while ago, I did a recap on the (in)famous Game 163 from the 2009 season, with the Twins besting the Tigers in 12 innings to capture the American League Central title. The reaction to it, on various media platforms, was, shall we say, mixed. I’d say it was
The Detroit Tigers have shifted gears. Triple-A Toledo manager Gary Jones, hired in early December to lead the Mud Hens, received a promotion Thursday when Tigers manager AJ Hinch added the 61-year-old to his MLB coaching staff as the team’s first base coach, filling Kimera Bartee’s role. Bartee died suddenly from a brain tumor in December at the
Detroit — Just when he thought he got out, they pull him back in. Lloyd McClendon, who has been out of baseball since he finished the 2020 season as the Tigers’ manager after Ron Gardenhire suddenly retired, has been hired to manage the Tigers’ Triple-A affiliate in Toledo. “I am looking forward to returning to Toledo
TOLEDO, Ohio – The Detroit Tigers and Toledo Mud Hens announced today Lloyd McClendon will take over as the 2022 manager of the Tigers’ Triple-A affiliate Toledo Mud Hens, replacing Gary Jones who has joined the Detroit Tigers staff. The 63-year-old is a native of Gary, Indiana and was the TOLEDO, Ohio – The Detroit
Things took a bit of a downward turn for the Tigers in 1906, and while they weren’t the worst team in the American League, they struggled with injury as well as plenty of internal strife thanks to manager Bill Armour. While the club ended the season with a sub-.500 record. Never fear, though, things were
Detroit — A couple of weeks ago I wrote an analysis piece you may have read in which I posited that the bullpen might be one of the Tigers’ strengths heading into spring training, and that it didn’t need any free-agent bolstering. With Gregory Soto, Michael Fulmer and Jose Cisnero coming off strong seasons, the back end
Jackson Jobe is ready to get started. Last year’s No. 3 overall pick visited the Detroit Tigers‘ spring training facility for six weeks after the July draft, throwing bullpens while he was prohibited from facing live hitters. He roomed with his best friend — and the Tigers’ second-round pick — Izaac Pacheco. The 19-year-old prospects plan to climb the organization’s hierarchy together. Jobe, a right-handed
Still just a teenager, Jackson Jobe already boasts a major league caliber slider, and he has a major league attitude to go with it. The #3 overall pick in the 2021 MLB Draft is fired up as he approaches his first spring training as a professional.
Before Jim Leyland joined the Detroit Tigers for eight years at the end of his managerial career, he managed 11 seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates, two for the Florida Marlins and one for the Colorado Rockies. In Pittsburgh, Leyland met Barry Bonds, who rose to stardom with the Pirates over his first seven seasons (1986-92). “You can make a
Most of us fell in love with baseball as a child. That’s when our imaginations were the most fertile, when we could easily picture ourselves standing on the mound in the bottom of the ninth or up at the plate with the bases loaded and the World Series on our shoulders. So, it shouldn’t be
Detroit — You almost feel bad for the first guy who steps into the batter’s box against Jackson Jobe. You remember Jackson Jobe, right? Tall, lanky right-hander from Oklahoma City the Tigers took with the third overall pick in last summer’s draft? They paid him a $6.9 million signing bonus and sent him to Lakeland for
Jim Leyland will never forget the Tigers’ Winter Caravan of 2012, but not for the frigid Michigan weather. While the Tigers were building enthusiasm for their upcoming defense of their 2011 American League Central title, Leyland worried about the roster. Detroit had just lost Victor Martinez to a season-ending left knee injury. Leyland had asked
The staff at Motor City Bengals put together their own Detroit Tigers prospect ranking independent of one another. Co-site experts Rogelio Castillo and Chris Brown aggregated that info and used the averages to come up with the site’s Top 20.
Count Jim Leyland among the large contingent of baseball fans who were disappointed in the Baseball Hall of Fame voting results revealed Tuesday night. Barry Bonds, in his 10th and final year on the writers’ ballot, didn’t get elected — the slugger’s widely accepted suspicion of steroid use again trumping the indisputable argument that he is
The staff at Motor City Bengals put together their own Detroit Tigers prospect ranking independent of one another. Co-site experts Rogelio Castillo and Chris Brown aggregated that info and used the averages to come up with the site’s Top 20.