The Detroit Tigers front office must be fans of Fallout Boys’ 2006 single “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s An Arms Race” or the real truth which is Detroit continued to load up on arms with potential upside as they close out the 2021 MLB Draft.
The Erie SeaWolves are the Double-A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers, and play at the beautifully updated UPMC Park in Erie, Pennsylvania. UPMC Park has been home to the Erie SeaWolves since 1995. The ballpark is more than just a great place to watch high-quality, professional baseball. The home of the SeaWolves is a great
Michigan fifth-year senior shortstop Benjamin Sems was picked in the 15th round, No. 440 overall, Tuesday by the Colorado Rockies on the third and final day of the MLB Draft. Sems was an All-Big Ten second-team player this past spring, starting all 46 games and hitting .314 with 15 extra-base hits and 30 RBIs for the Wolverines.
The Detroit Tigers again are picking high in each round of the 2021 MLB draft. For the fourth straight year, they held a top-5 pick, selecting high school pitcher Jackson Jobe at No. 3 overall in the first round Sunday. Previously, they’ve taken pitcher Casey Mize No. 1 overall (2018), outfielder Riley Greene at No.
Sunday came and the Tigers’ draft-day plans were final. No matter what the Pirates decided to do at first-overall, where they were expected to take a broadly popular choice to begin the 2021 MLB Draft — Marcelo Mayer — the Tigers were resolute about who they were snaring with the draft’s third overall turn. Jackson Jobe, an exception in
The Detroit Tigers spent 8 of their first 11 picks on pitching, so it figured they might go for more position players on Day Three. And that’s exactly what happened, with their first three picks of the day playing on the infield in some capacity.
DETROIT — Jan Little has dedicated her life to improving the lives of others — specifically, people with disabilities and veterans. Little is the CEO of Michigan Ability Partners, an Ann Arbor-based organization that has worked since 1985 to create pathways to stability for veterans and individuals with disabilities. And because of her 30-plus-year dedication
The 2021 Draft concludes with rounds 11-20 streamed live right now exclusively on MLB.com, with no delay between selections. You can also see each pick as it’s made on Draft Tracker and by following @MLBDraftTracker on Twitter. Plenty of talent remains, and while the top-ranked players on MLB Pipeline’s Draft Top 250 list are high
Ty Madden didn’t understand why he was sliding in the 2021 MLB draft. Over the past couple days, the Texas right-hander hadn’t been in a “crazy amount” of contact with theDetroit Tigers — because the Tigers, like Madden, assumed he would be a top-15 pick. But in the end, Madden’s fall became the Tigers’ gain.
Detroit — Day 1 brought the drama. Day 2 brought the depth. What’s in store for Day 3? The Tigers, who took high school right-hander Jackson Jobe with the No. 3 overall pick Sunday night, were working early and often Monday. They selected six pitchers and high school shortstop Izaac Pacheco, among others. Monday featured the
Happy Monday. We head into the All Star Break with the Tigers farting away a perfectly winnable series against the Minnesota Twins. That hurts. But we can start our week with the promise of the future. Sunday night saw the first round completed and the opinions on Detroit’s selections exist and they are wide ranging.
Bill Dow | Special to Detroit Free Press If Tiger Stadium ever earned the designation as the true “Field of Dreams” — instead of a movie set in Dyersville, Iowa — perhaps it happened on a hot and windy summer evening years ago today, July 13, 1971. Nineteen future Hall of Famers played in the 42nd MLB All-Star
By Jerry Green | Special to The Detroit News Detroit — The struck baseball whooshed through the night — a white missile blurred in the darkening sky above the ballpark. This stark scene has remained fixed in my memory for a half-century now. The baseball crashed into the light tower on the roof of the ballpark, above right
Detroit — The old ballpark, even old back then, is gone, has been for years. Many of the players are gone, too, several who’ve died in the last 15 months, including Mr. Tiger, Al Kaline. But memories, they can be stickier — sure, they may get fuzzy over time, or embellished, or more often, both — and typically
Ernest Hemingway wrote an epic novel entitled “A Farewell to Arms.” The Tigers, who weren’t trying to be cute Sunday and Monday, decided their theme for the 2021 Major League Baseball Draft would be “a big organizational hello to arms,” which, face it, is what they needed, and what they believe they got through the
The Mariners announced Monday that they’ve designated right-hander Will Vest for assignment in order to open a spot on the roster for lefty Yusei Kikuchi, who has been reinstated from the Covid-related injured list. Vest, the Mariners’ pick in December’s Rule 5 Draft, was selected out of the Tigers organization and had a nice run
The Tigers may have gotten a steal with Ty Madden at number 32 overall in the 2021 MLB Draft. The right-handed pitcher from Texas was ranked 9th overall by MLB Pipeline, and tagged as the 3rd best college pitcher after Vanderbilt stars Jack Leiter and Kumar Rocker.
The Detroit Tigers selected Dylan Smith, a right-handed pitcher from Alabama, with their third-round pick Monday in the 2021 MLB draft. Smith, 6 feet 2 and 180 pounds, was chosen No. 74 overall. The 21-year-old is the fourth player drafted by the Tigers, following high school pitcher Jackson Jobe (No. 3 overall), Texas right-handed pitcher Ty Madden (No. 32 overall) and high
With the 74th pick in the 2021 MLB draft, the Detroit Tigers have selected right-handed pitcher Dylan Smith from the University of Alabama. There are two main appeals for a team to draft Smith. The first is his feel to spin two distinct breaking balls. His best pitch is a swing-and-miss slider that has shown