Happy Holidays, friends. We can all agree 2020 was unequivocally the worst, but it still managed to bring us a season (albeit a shortened one) of Detroit Tigers baseball, and with that, it’s time we make the one thing we’ve always blown off: A New Year’s Resolution.
When the 1973 regular season ended, Al Kaline was only “75 percent sure” that he’d return to the Detroit Tigers in 1974. It had been a disappointing year for Kaline. He appeared in fewer than 100 games for the first time since he was an 18-year old rookie fresh out of high school in 1953.…
After breaking down how last season’s five lowest-scoring offenses look now, we’ll do the same here with the five rotations that allowed the most earned runs in 2020… Tigers (6.37 ERA/5.53 FIP, 8.04 K/9, 3.91 BB/9): The Tigers received solid production from Spencer Turnbull and … nobody else last season. Matt Boyd, who was a
There was a lot we’d like to forget about 2020, which also happened to feature the shortest and strangest Major League season we’ll probably ever see. But ascendant talents such as Luis Robert, Cristian Pache and Ke’Bryan Hayes will remember the year more fondly as the one in which they made their big league debuts.
The baseball world unfortunately lost a number of influential people in 2020. Let’s remember them, now. (St. Louis Browns, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, Chicago White Sox, San Francisco Giants, Houston Colt .45’s, Houston Astros, Chicago Cubs)
By Jerry Green | Special to The Detroit News Detroit — Barry Bonds, rejected! Roger Clemens, shunned! Mark McGwire, denied! Bud Selig, elected! Inducted! Glorified! It is election time again in Major League Baseball. The qualified sports journalists of the Baseball Writers Association of America are voting this week for the worthy candidates for election to
The Detroit Tigers have put the word out enough via some of its more docile media portals not to expect high-impact acquisitions in this off-season. It’s doubtful even the most optimistic folks any longer hold out hope to see JT Realmuto or George Springer sign on as a Tiger. That leaves Detroit, despite have laughably…
The holiday gift-shopping is over, and the post-Christmas sales at stores are just about wrapping up. By contrast, the Tigers’ Hot Stove shopping season is just getting started. As the calendar flips to 2021, Detroit still has a ton of work to do to fill out its roster and address The holiday gift-shopping is over,
It’s understandable if Detroit Tigers fans are a bit envious of San Diego Padres fans. After all, the Padres just had one hell of a day, trading for both Blake Snell and Yu Darvish, and then signing Ha-seong Kim, the best international free agent on the market.
Those within the Detroit Tigers organization think the team is closer to contention than the average pundit. An MLB rebuild takes time. Unlike, say, the NBA, where one top-ranked prospect can change the course of a team’s history, the best up-and-comers in baseball take years to develop in MiLB’s system. The Tigers are a classic…
The 2020 baseball season offered us plenty of excitement in a short span, from the July 23 Opening Day matchups all the way through Game 6 of the World Series. Even with fewer games than normal, there were feats and amazing stats accruing left and right, every single day. It’s hard to pick just one
Tony Paul | The Detroit News Every July in a tiny village in upstate New York, the living history of baseball is on full display. It’s long been tradition for living members of the Baseball Hall of Fame to return to Cooperstown for the annual induction weekend, and, health permitting, almost all of them do.
On December 13 of 2019, I took the position of co-expert for Motor City Bengals. One of my responsibilities of course is to write about the Detroit Tigers on a semi-daily basis. In total, I have written over 200 articles, done about 61 podcasts in a year in which we saw only 60 games. Along…
Kirkland Crawford | Detroit Free Press Tom Wilson, a fixture in sports and entertainment in southeast Michigan for four decades, announced he will retire from Ilitch Companies at the end of the year. The Detroit native’s legacy includes having a huge hand building two sports arenas in metro Detroit, the Palace of Auburn Hills and Little
The 2020 season was not all doom-and-gloom despite the rancid record and the accompanying antagonizing fanbase. Although it was another year in which the Detroit Tigers finished in the bottom five of the league, there were encouraging performances from some unlikely sources that could make 2021 and beyond a bit more interesting.
Jay Cohen | Associated Press Chicago — San Diego Padres general manager A.J. Preller reunited with an old friend in another blockbuster move Tuesday night. The aggressive Padres got Yu Darvish in a trade with the Chicago Cubs, adding another ace to their rotation after announcing a deal for Blake Snell earlier in the day.
The purpose of a farm system is to develop talent for its parent club, whether it be directly with young players or indirectly with trades. This year, however, that simple objective was complicated by the pandemic, which resulted in a lost Minor League season, a shortened Major League schedule and a five-round Draft. As a
Even though the 2020 season lasted only 60 games, it saw its fair share of notable individual performances. There were two no-hitters, 10 three-homer games, six five-hit outbursts and much more. Some of these games produced stat lines never before seen in baseball history — at least as far back Even though the 2020 season
The best seasons of José Ureña’s career came with Juan Nieves as his pitching coach in Miami, including Ureña’s 14-win season in 2017. When Ureña looked for a new opportunity this offseason after spending his entire six-year career in Miami, seeing Nieves as the new assistant pitching coach in Detroit The best seasons of José
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers’ Jose Urena ‘happy’ to join team on one-year deal Detroit Tigers right-hander Jose Urena speaks Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020, about joining a new organization and what he hopes to accomplish. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press The newest member of the Detroit Tigers is