Tony Paul | The Detroit News Baseball fans, clearly, are an eager bunch. Spring-training tickets in both Florida and Arizona are hot commodities, including the Tigers, who earlier this month sold out all 15 of their home Grapefruit League games in three hours. The Tigers are operating at limited capacity at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland,
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Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. – AJ Hinch and his coaching staff had just finalized lineup plans Wednesday for the first couple of exhibition games, which start Sunday, with Tigers’ top prospect Spencer Torkelson to make an early start at third base. Then came the phone call Wednesday night: Torkelson cut his right index
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LAKELAND, Fla. – Spencer Torkelson’s highly anticipated Grapefruit League debut will have to wait a few days. The Tigers’ top prospect will miss the first few games of Spring Training after suffering a small cut on his right index finger. The injury happened Wednesday night at home, manager A.J. Hinch said. Torkelson is sharing a
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Evan Petzold   | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption How Detroit Tigers’ Casey Mize felt pitching live to batters Wednesday in camp Detroit Tigers pitching prospect Casey Mize pitched Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, against Niko Goodrum, Harold Castro and Greg Garcia in camp. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — Top pitching prospect Casey
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Jeff Seidel | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — We interrupt spring training for a fishing story. Spencer Torkelson and Riley Greene, two of the Detroit Tigers’ top prospects, went fishing in a pond behind the house they are renting at spring training. And Jake Rogers, their other roommate, went out to watch and pulled up
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Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — Professor AJ Hinch delivered a meaty media session Wednesday morning. The topic: zone defense. Say what now? This wasn’t a basketball discussion. The way Hinch conceptualizes and teaches defensive shifts is akin to playing a zone. “The reality is, we don’t know exactly where the ball is going
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Jeff Seidel | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — One Stanford man was heart-broken for another on Wednesday. Detroit Tigers manager AJ Hinch was rattled after learning that Tiger Woods was seriously injured outside Los Angeles on Tuesday after a rollover accident. “I was sick to my stomach,” Hinch said Wednesday morning. Hinch and Woods both attended
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Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers infielder Willi Castro recently had his braces removed. He flashed a sharp smile Wednesday afternoon, fielding ground balls and firing them to first baseman Miguel Cabrera. Beyond the braces, the 23-year-old is losing the training wheels. The Tigers are confidently moving forward with him as their
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Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Lakeland, Fla. — If you ever questioned the wisdom of bringing players who are still in the lower rungs of the minor-league system to big-league training camp, we draw your attention to the scene on the backfields of Joker Marchant Stadium Wednesday. Twenty-year-old Riley Greene, the Tigers’ No. 4-ranked prospect, was
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