LAKELAND, Fla. — Keider Montero looked up and smiled. He was thinking about the spin rate when he throws his curveball, one of his biggest strengths as a 21-year-old pitching prospect for the Detroit Tigers. The Venezuelan right-hander also boasts a strong arm and throws strikes. But the curveball, with 3,200 revolutions per minute, is his specialty.
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The word on Roberto Campos’ raw power is spreading, and you can add Dan Dickerson to the growing list of believers in the 18-year-old prospect. The radio play-by-play voice checks in with his observations, while teammate Parker Meadows simply asks, “What’s he eating?” Take a look for yourself at a player who is still finding
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LAKELAND, Fla. — Reese Olson is enjoying his first spring training in TigerTown. The 22-year-old pitching prospect joined the Detroit Tigers last July, when the Milwaukee Brewers traded him for a couple months of Daniel Norris. Olson took the mound Thursday for his first live batting practice session of minor-league minicamp. The Tigers paired Olson with Spencer Torkelson, Riley Greene and Ryan
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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