Every era has its defining starting pitchers -- the aces who transcend their peers and become synonymous with a generation. Right now, we’re in the epilogue of the era defined by Clayton Kershaw, Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer. A new crop of dominant arms has emerged, but we’re still waiting

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Troy Melton is unlikely to be ready for Opening Day after the promising Tigers right-hander was diagnosed with inflammation in his right elbow. "The doctor suggested one to two weeks of no-throw,” manager A.J. Hinch said on Friday. “While he can still do other things -- lifting,

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It’s exactly one month until Opening Day, and MLB.com’s beat writers have been in camp for a couple of weeks now. So we decided to go around the division and ask some questions of the five American League Central beat writers about what they’ve seen in camp to this point.

LAKELAND, Fla. -- The locker between Tarik Skubal and Justin Verlander’s, the one that houses the espresso machine Casey Mize purchased with Skubal at the start of Spring Training, now has a name: Casey’s Cafe. No, really. There’s a sign denoting it.

Power wins games. As MLB Network insider Tom Verducci has noted, the last six World Series champions have ranked first, third, fourth, third, third and second in regular-season home runs.

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NORTH PORT, Fla. -- Tigers outfield prospect Max Clark noted Sunday that he’d rather deal with the gusty winds of the Grapefruit League than the blinding Florida sun. On Tuesday, the sun got its revenge, giving Clark a hard time on two first-inning fly balls against the backdrop of a

Jazz Chisholm Jr. raised eyebrows when he told the media last week that he’s aiming to join Shohei Ohtani in the 50-50 club. While it’s rare to hear players be this vocal about specific goals in a season, it’s also the time of year when media members and fans alike

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Monday looked like a typical Spring Training outing for Tarik Skubal, who opened his 2026 season with four strikeouts over two scoreless innings in Detroit's 3-0 loss against the Twins. Aside from one start for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic, he said afterwards, it will

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Miguel Cabrera said he sent a text to Justin Verlander as soon as news emerged of Verlander’s return to the Tigers. “I told him I want to come back, too,” Cabrera said, followed by his familiar bellowing laugh.

LAKELAND, Fla. -- The late innings of a Spring Training game can become an intersection of small sample sizes. On one side, top prospects might be trying to make an impression with the at-bats they get in a big league camp that can be more learning experience than proving grounds.

TAMPA, Fla. -- Gleyber Torres was feeling a tad nostalgic this week even before returning to George M. Steinbrenner Field on Saturday for the Tigers’ Grapefruit League opener against the Yankees, his former team. If Torres wanted a reminder of his days as a top prospect and a highly regarded

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Spring Training is not just a time for players to get back into game shape. It's also a time of opportunity. Though teams already have a good idea about their Opening Day lineups, the full rosters usually aren't completely set when players report to camp in Florida or Arizona. That

LAKELAND, Fla. -- From an early age, Justin Verlander talked about pitching into his mid-40s, with Nolan Ryan as a role model for longevity. “I mean, since I was 22 years old, I’ve been saying I wanted to pitch til I was 45,” Verlander said last week during his reintroductory

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Arguably no topic in Detroit sports has better encapsulated the city’s challenge of preserving history while embracing modernization than the Tigers uniform. For more than 30 years, generations of fans, players and team officials have wondered how to balance the history of an American League charter franchise

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Kevin McGonigle has done a great job blending into Tigers camp as a top prospect turned non-roster invite to Spring Training. But he couldn’t help but stand out Thursday afternoon as his home run soared down the right-field line. McGonigle got all of a Beau Brieske fastball

LAKELAND, Fla. -- The first Vintage Verlander moment of this new chapter wasn’t a strikeout in front of a packed crowd at Joker Marchant Stadium, or a big fastball or buckling breaking ball. It was a bullpen session on the back fields. This is where Justin Verlander put in the

LAKELAND, Fla. – Kerry Carpenter’s explosive swing allows him to see a pitch a split-second longer and react. But his ability to read pitchers and anticipate a pitch is just about as fascinating. “The swing decisions are helped by the more I see [pitchers],” Carpenter explained Monday. “The more I

The Tigers haven’t always had a collection of young talent like they’ve assembled in recent years, but their franchise history includes plenty of memorable debuts – some from future stars, others from young players who came seemingly out of nowhere. Many of their best young players had rough introductions to

Spring Training games are slated to start Friday, meaning MLB’s biggest stars will be back in action. But with so many great talents in the game today, who will be every team’s top player in 2026? To determine that, it’s time to examine the projections from FanGraphs Depth Charts (a