SARASOTA, Fla. -- Jackson Jobe looked over his left shoulder and kicked out his leg as Heston Kjerstad’s loft carried out to left Tuesday at Ed Smith Stadium. It wasn’t so much the opposite-field home run off the 97 mph high fastball that bothered him; he can tip his cap

This story was excerpted from Jason Beck’s Tigers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. LAKELAND, Fla. -- There’s a delicate balance in young pitchers adding to their arsenal. Add too many pitches, and hurlers can get indecisive with

As the sounds of bats cracking and gloves popping echo across the diamonds of Florida and Arizona, baseball's top prospects will be digging in to push for spots on Major League Opening Day rosters. Although most of these prospects will begin the season in the Minors, there are a handful

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Tigers president of baseball operations Scott Harris had been looking forward to Wednesday’s matchup since re-signing starting pitcher Jack Flaherty earlier this month. “It’s going to make for some pretty fun live BPs to watch in Spring Training when he’s facing [Trey] Sweeney and [Thayron] Liranzo,” Harris

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Don’t let the 5-foot-10 frame fool you. Tyler Owens brings a lot to the mound, as Tigers hitters realized on Wednesday. As he rears back in his delivery, he holds the ball behind his back knee before everything flies forward. Not only is his right arm flying

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Trey Sweeney arguably helped save the Tigers’ season with his work filling in for an injured Javier Báez at shortstop down the stretch and into the postseason. Now that Báez is back healthy and in camp, Sweeney (Detroit's No. 18 prospect) isn’t looking at a shortstop competition,

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Tigers prospect Hao-Yu Lee was exulting in victory in a batting-practice hitting contest Saturday morning when bench coach George Lombard joined the celebration. Congratulations, Lombard said, now you get to go help out on pitchers’ fielding practice. Welcome to Major League camp, kid. The ball has been

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Alex Bregman finally made his way to Tigers camp on Sunday morning, sort of. His introductory press conference with the Red Sox was simulcast on MLB Network, which is a fixture on television screens in the Tigers clubhouse at Joker Marchant Stadium, making for quite the contrast

LAKELAND, Fla. -- The Tigers will have all three players from last summer’s Jack Flaherty trade in their Major League camp this Spring Training, including the guy they traded away. Top catching prospect Thayron Liranzo, who vaulted into MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 rankings at No. 82 on the strength of

The momentum keeps building with the Tigers’ farm system, no matter how many talented young players complete the road to Detroit. On the heels of a postseason run that included several former top prospects, the Tigers checked in with six prospects on MLB Pipeline’s latest Top 100 list released on

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MLB Pipeline has been ranking international prospects since 2012. For the first time, the Tigers have landed a player in the Top 5 at the opening of the international signing period, agreeing to a deal with the No. 4 overall prospect. Meet Cris Rodriguez, a 6-foot-4, 200-pound right-handed-hitting outfielder from

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As the Pipeline Podcast wraps up 2024, Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo preview the '25 season with a wide range of predictions. The duo breaks down eight categories, from Rookies of the Year in both leagues and the No. 1 overall Draft pick to which organization will finish with the

There is no singular established path to farm system improvement. The best organizations do it internally. They take the players already in the pipeline and help them get the most out of their tools or, in a best-case scenario, improve the tools already in their profiles. That takes a good

MLB Pipeline gives our organizational Top 30 prospect rankings complete refreshes twice per calendar year (once in spring, once in-season) and provides other live updates as graduations and other transactions necessitate them. In the latter category, two dates in particular are our busiest for Top 30 updates: the Trade Deadline

Right-hander Wilmer Flores and infielder Eddys Leonard were both Top 30 prospects in the Tigers' system earlier this year who might have joined the many other prospects to debut in Detroit in 2024 if not for injuries. Both were designated for assignment and became free agents last month to open

The Winter Meetings begin Sunday in Dallas, and prospects will certainly be on some teams' shopping lists. Who will get the best holiday-season deal, and which clubs have the juice to make that kind of deal happen?

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Let's dive into some questions to go with the leftovers ...

With Paul Skenes and Luis Gil taking home their leagues' respective 2024 Rookie of the Year Awards, it's time to turn our attention to 2025.

The Arizona Fall League is over, with tremendous prospects shutting things down for the offseason. All 30 teams have made their 40-man roster decisions, adding big-name prospects and some sleepers to keep an eye on. So what’s a prospect hound to do? Answer your questions, of course! We answered a