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They’re not going to go 162-0. While the Tampa Bay Rays, still undefeated after 12 games in 2023, are indisputably the hottest team in baseball, their recent string of success seems to be just as circumstantial as it is earned. It’s only a matter of time before the highly competitive AL East division tightens once more and the current division leaders have to contend for a playoff spot against more worthy competitors. To argue that the Rays’ historic season-starting winning streak, just one game away from the all-time record as of April 13, is due in part to good fortune is not to discredit th...
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The Detroit Tigers have won four World Series titles. Ever. Their last win came in 1984, but they have been to the championship in the last 10 years before they lost to the San Francisco Giants. Even after the loss, they were still dominant, winning the NL Central every year between 2011-14 and making the ALCS in three of those seasons. Every year since they have failed to make the postseason from 2015 on. The only constant is general manager Al Avila. The Tigers announced last week that they fired Avila, who served as the team’s executive vice president and general manager since 2015 when he ...
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Baseball analyst and Minnesota Twins analyst, Jim Kaat is under fire again for insensitive comments regarding a player once again. During the broadcast of the Detroit Tigers-Minnesota Twins matchup on Thursday, Kaat referred to Yankee’s left-handed pitcher Nestor Cortes as “Nestor the Molester” while previewing the Twins-Yankees matchup for June 7. “‘Nestor the Molester,’ Nestor Cortes, Man, he is fun to watch,” Kaat said while praising Cortes’ play after the pitched seven shutout innings against the Los Angeles Angeles on Thursday. Cortes said after the game that he didn’t feel that Kaat made...
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The shadow of Roger Clemens continues on the baseball diamond as the Detroit Tigers have promoted Kody Clemens to the major league roster. Kody is Clemens’ youngest of his four sons and the third to have played professional baseball. Kody is the only one to have reached the major leagues, however. The 26-year-old was a third-round pick in 2018 out of the University of Texas and was playing with the Tiger’s triple-A affiliate in Toledo. The utility man had been batting .283 with a .316 OBP and a .527 SLG in Triple-A this season. He had amassed nine doubles, six triples and eight homers in 45 Tr...
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Following a 77-85, third-place AL Central finish in 2021, the Tigers are projected for three fewer wins (74-88) and just 9.9% playoff odds. GET DEALS ON DETRIOT TIGERS TICKETS To avoid its sixth consecutive losing season, Detroit made some big acquisitions over the winter: Javier Baez, Eduardo Rodriguez, Michael Pineda, Andrew Chafin, and Tucker Barnhart, to name a few. Also, Casey Mize and Tarik Skubal will anchor the rotation. Once the most feared hitter on the planet, the 39-year-old Miguel Cabrera will begin his penultimate season in MLB—he’s signed through 2023 plus two option years, whic...
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Detroit Tigers first base coach and former player Kimera Bartee died Monday after he collapsed while visiting family in Nebraska. Bartee, 49, had no known prior health concerns and his cause of death remains a mystery. He leaves behind his father, Jerry, fiancée, Terri Slide, 43, and children Andrew, Amari, and Taeja. “All of us in the Tigers baseball family were shocked and saddened,” Tigers general manager Al Avila said in a statement. “Throughout his time in our organization as both a player and a coach, Kimera was known as a kind soul but intense competitor who did his best every day to el...
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Jack Morris, a television analyst for the Detroit Tigers, apologized Tuesday night for using an accent when describing what the Tigers should do when pitching to the Los Angeles Angels Shohei Ohtani, who was coming up to bat. The game was tied at two in the top of the sixth inning, outfielder Juan Lagares had struck out and Ohtani, who is Japanese, was up next. Bally Sports Detroit play-by-play announcer Matt Shepard asked, “Now what do you do with Shohei Ohtani?” Morris responded with an accent “Be very, very careful.” Ohtani was then intentionally walked. Morris addressed his earlier remarks...
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It is the year of no-hitters in Major League Baseball. Detroit Tigers‘ Spencer Turnbull is the latest pitcher to record a no-hitter. His victim was the Seattle Mariners. Turnbull produced the best performance of his career as he recorded his first career no-hitter. Turnbull struck out nine batters on a career-high 117 pitches. The only two batters that did reach first base were the ones he walked. Jarred Kelenic was walked in the fourth inning and Mariners’ first basemen Jose Marmolejos was walked after a full-count curveball missed wide in the ninth inning. Turnbull’s no-hitter was the Tiger...
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Major League Baseball’s Opening Day is rapidly approaching. This means it is time to take a look at predictions for each team going into the 2021 season after the 2020 pandemic shortened campaign. > GET THE BEST DETROIT TIGERS TICKET DEALS HERE!The Detroit Tigers placed last in the American League Central in 2019 and 2020. During those two years, they only won 70 of 229 games. In 2020, the Tigers’ pitching staff had the worst ERA in baseball, coming in at 5.63, and they also ranked 23rd in runs scored (249). The future of the Tigers is in the hands of their younger players. Check out Detroit’s...
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