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…
The truncated MLB amateur draft in 2020 appears to have been a good one for the Detroit Tigers, despite the unfortunate circumstances. They were handed a near ready-made middle-of-the-order slugger with the first overall selection in Spencer Torkelson, and followed that up with a good pick at the top of the second round, taking Ohio
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Horatio Williams always knew he wanted to help others. Raised by his mother and grandmother on the east side of Detroit, Williams said he returned home many nights only to be greeted by strangers whom he would openly treat like family. “We always helped people. We never had a lock on the door,” Williams said.
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
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,
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
Major League Baseball’s owners and players met over a five hour period on Monday with the owners making two small proposals that hint at room for further movement. MLB increased it’s offer for a pre-arbitration bonus pool from $15 million to $20 million and bumped the number of teams participating in the draft lottery from
Our list of the top 20 Detroit Tigers prospects concludes with a look at one of the best prospects in all of baseball, Riley Greene. For the past month we’ve been offering detailed looks at players in our top 20 prospects. We recently moved into the top five, with pieces on Ty Madden, Jackson Jobe,…
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
Check in with Tigers highly touted prospects Riley Greene, Spencer Torkelson and Dillon Dingler as they begin their 2022 season at the Tigers Minor League Spring Training Camp.
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’