DETROIT -- Who led Tigers pitchers in games started, innings pitched, wins and strikeouts? The answer is Framber Valdez, just as everyone might have figured when the Tigers signed him in February. Very little else about Valdez's first season in Detroit satisfied expectations. The Tigers signed the two-time All-Star just

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Advancing into a new era of Detroit Red Wings telecasts, the team today announced details ahead of its inaugural season on Detroit SportsNet, presented by Bet365. This includes the return of fan-favorite on-air talent, tune-in information, and meaningful production enhancements for a telecast already ranked as one of the league’s

The 34th annual Arizona Fall League season is underway, and you can watch top prospects from all 30 MLB organizations throughout October and November as AFL matchups are once again streaming for free on both MLB.com (here and on the AFL site) and MLB.TV. All but five games of the

Last week, MLB Pipeline revealed its selections for Minor League Hitting Prospect of the Year and Minor League Pitching Prospect of the Year during the 2026 MiLB Awards Show on MLB Network. Brewers corner infielder Andrew Fischer won hitting honors after swatting 48 homers, the most in the Minors since

Rookies -- and big names at that -- made their impacts felt in 2026. Eighteen of the first 25 players ranked on MLB Pipeline's preseason Top 100 Prospects list appeared in the big leagues, and many of them had seasons worthy of hardware. There were eye-catching debuts, massive extensions, All-Star

This page will be updated throughout the offseason to reflect the team’s latest transactions and any injury updates. As a reminder, players can remain on the 60-day IL through the World Series, after which teams must account for those players on their 40-man roster.

Scott Harris was a man of his word. At the Tigers’ 2025 end-of-season press conference, the club's president of baseball operations mentioned two 20-year-olds who dominated Double-A that season -- a pair everyone watching knew to be Kevin McGonigle and Max Clark -- would factor into their 2026 Major League

Major League Baseball on Monday announced finalists for the 2026 Hank Aaron Award, an honor that recognizes the most outstanding regular season offensive performer in each League. At last year’s All-Star Game in Atlanta, MLB celebrated the 51st anniversary of Hank Aaron’s historic 715th record-breaking home run with a special

GLENDALE, Ariz. –- One of the unique difficulties the Arizona Fall League presents for hitters is the sheer variety of arms they have to face on an at-bat-to-at-bat basis, often without much prep. But name a full-season Tigers affiliate and John Peck played there in 2026 -- including a one-month

The Minor League playoffs have been completed. There are only a handful of players with prospect eligibility remaining left in the Major League postseason, and there will be fewer with each passing round. Time for us in prospectdom to go into offseason mode? Not so fast, friends. The Arizona Fall

DETROIT -- The Tigers will make some changes to their coaching staff coming off a 76-86 season. First-base coach Anthony Sanders and assistant pitching coach Juan Nieves will not return to the Tigers next season, sources told MLB.com. The Tigers have not confirmed any changes to their coaching staff. The

DETROIT -- Tigers President of Baseball Operations Scott Harris and manager A.J. Hinch have held a media session after the end of each season during their tenure to assess the campaign and look ahead to next year. Monday morning’s press conference, held the day after the regular season ended, rather

DETROIT -- One day after Tigers manager A.J. Hinch set the perfect scene to close out Justin Verlander’s incredible career, he did the same for a player whose career is just getting rolling. Kevin McGonigle took his defensive position at third base for the eighth inning when manager A.J. Hinch

Action in the Arizona Fall League kicked off over the weekend with a full slate of games, with big names already turning heads. While a lot of attention is understandably given to the high-profile prospects -- the late additions of Sebastian Walcott, Aidan Miller and Angeibel Gomez created some fun

DETROIT -- Years from now, when folks mention Vintage Verlander, this is what they’ll mean. For days, the Tigers had joked about sending Justin Verlander out like Billy Chapel. Never mind that the latter is a fictional character, an aging, once-great Tigers pitcher portrayed by Kevin Costner in the 1999

DETROIT -- Justin Verlander overcame the rust of six months since his last Major League appearance, the tightness of a hamstring strain that never quite went away, and the simple truth of Father Time and 43-year-old pitchers to deliver one last afternoon of Vintage Verlander. But after 5 1/3 innings

TORONTO -- The sun is setting on two of this era’s greatest pitchers. Justin Verlander threw the final pitch of his remarkable career on Saturday afternoon in Detroit, and while Max Scherzer isn’t ready to make a decision just yet, he’ll take the mound Sunday in Toronto knowing it could

Justin Verlander has compiled a first-ballot Hall of Fame resume over the course of a storied career. With his final start in the books -- including an emotional departure from the mound with his daughter Genevieve -- it’s a perfect time to recount the many ways in which his career

No Minor League level has a bigger impact on the Major Leagues than Triple-A. Just one step below the bigs, the rosters in the International and Pacific Coast leagues are peppered with talent ready to make an impact, and this year's crop of standouts show just that.

DETROIT -- Justin Verlander took the mound for the Tigers in back-to-back years in winner-take-all games on the road against the A’s. He has nine career World Series appearances, including Game 1 for the Tigers in 2006 and 2012, and 226 career postseason innings. Add in two starts in All-Star

DETROIT -- The Tigers celebrated Justin Verlander’s incredible pitching career with an emotional ceremony Friday night, a day before he takes the mound one last time to face the Pirates. But the highlight of the ceremony arguably was Verlander as a catcher, getting behind the plate for the ceremonial first

Justin Verlander will make his 557th and final Major League start on Saturday. It’ll be only his second time throwing to Dillon Dingler, the 30th and final catcher to work with him. Of all the current and former players with stories and memories of Verlander, none have them quite like