Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Spring training is coming, who deserves an invite? With spring training just around the corner (at last!) the Tigers lineup seems mostly established. But the final version heading into March may still have some question marks. It seems like it could be an ideal opportunity to issue some minor league contracts with an invitation to spring training for some of the market’s remaining free agents. While most of the big-name options (and let’s be honest, the options the Tigers were never going to go for anyway) gone, it could be ..read more

Photo by Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via As usual there are less televised broadcasts than we’d prefer, but we’re excited to get spring training underway. With just eight days left until the Detroit Tigers pitchers and catchers report to Lakeland, the club released their spring training television and radio broadcast schedules on Monday. As usual, we’re going to get really excited for baseball, and then get just a handful of games to watch until Opening Day. Fortunately, the dulcet tones of Dan Dickerson will be more readily available, with 18 games broadcast on the ..read more

Kirthmon F. Dozier / USA TODAY NETWORK There's always a few guys who just don't quite fit with the most promising group of prospects. RHP Freddy Pacheco The Cardinals hoped to sneak Pacheco, who was experiencing elbow discomfort, through wavers late last offseason after the bulk of teams had mostly wrapped up their 40 man moves. Detroit decided to step in and sequestered the recuperating reliever on their 60 day IL, burning an option year while he accrued a full season of service time without throwing a pitch. The two parties initially tried to avoid Tommy John ..read more

Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports Wolfie has been released as the Tigers continue their tradition of cycling through a lot of minor league claims trying to stash as many project arms as possible in Toledo. Monday afternoon, the Tigers announced that infielder Nick Maton has been designed for assignment. After being acquired from Philly in the deal for flame-throwing reliever Gregory Soto, Maton was expected to be a useful utility piece, if not an everyday infielder. He got out to a hot start in spring camp and quickly endeared himself to Tigers fans with a couple of key ..read more

Mike Watters-USA TODAY Sports The club will have 13 prospects off our recent rankings in major league camp this spring. Pitchers and catchers are due to report a week from today on February 14. The first full squad workout is February 19. So we’re getting close to major league activity, if not yet actual games. Truck day will be here before we know it, and by the last week of February we’ll be into the Grapefruit League schedule. The Tigers dropped their full spring training roster on Wednesday, and the more I look at the group of prospects scheduled to be in major ..read more

The Orioles padded their position player depth Wednesday by swinging a trade with the Detroit Tigers for utility man Nick Maton ..read more

Baseball is back!!! The sweetest four words of the early months of the year are: “pitchers and catcher report.” This coming week we’ll start seeing just that, as the first photos of teams gearing up for the season begin to appear, and shortly after we see the first full-squad workouts begin. There’s just something wonderful about spring training. It’s the first sign of a new baseball season, and we get fun things like our usual “best shape of his life” reports on players who discovered personal trainers over the winter, or seeing new guys don their Tigers jerseys ..read more

Photo by Bob Levey/ The Tigers placed their bets on their young talent and kept their options open to improve the roster as needed during the season. The hope coming into the offseason was that the Detroit Tigers would be able to replace their losses on the pitching staff and add a serious dose of offense to a 2023 roster that still sorely needed it. A series of moves to accomplish those goals would put the club in reasonably good position to make a run at the division in 2024. They arguably fell a little short, but in betting instead on a farm system loaded with upper ..read more

Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports The club also announced its 2024 coaching staff for its affiliates. Before our brand new prospect rankings come out later this week, there have been a few smaller news items regarding the farm system to catch up on. The Tigers announced most of their 2024 international free agent class last week, as we reported here, but the most interesting player is likely their 2025 top free agent, Dominican outfielder Cris Joel Rodriguez. Reports emerged last week that the Tigers are far and away the favorites to sign the now 15-year-old ..read more

Jay Markle (Used with Permission) The Tigers system gets a bit of love from Eric Longenhagen, but not much. On Monday morning, Eric Longenhagen at FanGraphs released his Detroit Tigers prospect list for the 2024 season. Unsurprisingly, it began with right-handed starting pitcher Jackson Jobe at the top of the pile. Unlike MLB Pipeline and Baseball America, who cap their organizational rankings to 30 and 10 players respectively, FanGraphs does not limit the slots available on the list. They place as many prospects as they believe merit a 35+ FV evaluation, in other ..read more