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 Make no mistake, pitchers in the Mexican Pacific Winter
The Tigers have signed five players to minor-league deals, per a team announcement. Of the group, only left-hander Locke St. John has prior major league experience. St. John (28 later this month) began his pro career as a 32nd-round pick of the Detroit organization but didn’t make it to the majors as a Tiger. Instead, St.
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Brandon Inge tells story of an angry Jim Leyland Former Tiger Brandon Inge talks about returning to Comerica Park and how Jim Leyland used to get mad after games. Video by George Sipple, DFP. Videolicious The University of Michigan baseball team is adding a familiar face
The Tigers have such a rich history that they could honor an all-time team made entirely of current or future Hall of Famers. But what about an all-time team based on the best single seasons by Tigers players? Do some of the best one-year wonders beat out others whose career seasons were part of Hall
The Detroit Tigers kicked off 2021 with the signing of five pitchers to minor league deals. Right-handers, A.J. Ladwig, Zac Shepherd, Isrreal De La Cruz, Henry Martinez, and left-hander Locke St John. For prospect fans out there, a few of these names should sound familiar to you. Also in today’s minor league report, bad news…
Chris McCosky | The Detroit News Detroit — The Tigers on Monday announced that outfielder Daz Cameron has cut his short his stint in the Puerto Rican Winter League because of soreness in his right arm. “Daz experienced arm discomfort while working out with his winter league team,” said a statement from head athletic trainer Doug
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The Detroit News | The Detroit News The Tigers are bringing back a familiar face. Detroit on Monday signing five players to minor-league contracts, including side-arming left-hander Locke St. John, a former Tigers draft pick who has spent the last three seasons in the Texas Rangers’ system. St. John, 27, was a 32nd-round pick by the
The Tigers lost Locke St. John in the Rule 5 Draft a few years ago and watched him make his big league debut for the Texas Rangers in 2019. The Tigers have now brought him back as they build depth ahead of the 2021 Minor League season. While the Major The Tigers lost Locke St.
Evan Petzold | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Tigers’ AJ Hinch thinks team can win in 2021 with ‘mindset change’ Detroit Tigers manager AJ Hinch breaks down the team’s offseason entering the 2021 season Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press Detroit Tigers outfielder Daz Cameron was shut down with
Isaac Paredes remains a rookie in Major League Baseball, but he’s a veteran in winter ball. The Tigers prospect used his experience in the big leagues last year to reach a new level in his native Mexico this offseason, one that just might open the door again for him in Isaac Paredes remains a rookie
The Detroit Tigers still have multiple positions to fill this off-season. While AJ Hinch has slated to have Niko Goodrum start the year as a utility player, Hinch and Al Avila are looking for veteran help in the infield.
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 Detroit Tigers general manager Al Avila issued another
Tony Paul | The Detroit News Former Detroit Tiger Brandon Inge is about to make the jump into the college coaching ranks, and will join Michigan as a volunteer assistant. Inge and Steve Merriman, Michigan’s pitching coach twice previously who is taking the job again, will be officially introduced as staff members by the end
It’s easy to look backwards. We already know what happened, so we can all say we saw it coming all along. The hard part is figuring out what goes down in the future. We can identify a star now. Can we identify next year’s? As we head into a new year, let’s find out. This
Lynn Henning | The Detroit News What he saw were a lot of breaking balls and pitches often referred to in baseball parlance as “junk.” What he rolled up were glitzy hitting numbers: .379 batting average, .480 on-base percentage, and .579 slugging, for a heavy OPS of 1.060. But maybe what Isaac Paredes most got
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.