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The Detroit Tigers entered the offseason with an obvious goal of rebuilding their pitching staff, expected by most to look at that area more so than anything el
DETROIT -- The Detroit Tigers traded right-handed reliever Chase Lee to the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night. The move clears a 40-man roster spot for the addition of veteran right-hander Kyle Finnegan, whose signing should be made official in the coming days. The Tigers will receive 24-year-old left-hander Johan Simon from the Blue Jays.
A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that right-hander Kyle Finnegan and the Detroit Tigers have agreed to a $19 million, two-year contract pending a physical.
Now that the Dodgers are hanging on to Tyler Glasnow, Detroit Tigers fans may be able to rest easy about the risk of trading Tarik Skubal.
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Baseball America has Detroit picking RHP in 2026 mock draft
The Detroit Tigers have the No. 22 overall pick, and Baseball America’s first mock draft now predicts right-handed pitcher Tommy LaPour out of Texas Christian University as the selection.
DETROIT -- The Detroit Tigers have signed right-handed pitcher and former San Francisco Giants prospect Cole Waites to a minor-league deal. The news was reported on Thursday by Ari Alexander of WHDH in Boston. Waites, 27, missed the entire 2024 season and much of 2025 after undergoing his second Tommy John surgery.
Reliever Chase Lee posted a 4.10 ERA with nine walks and 36 strikeouts across 37⅓ innings in 32 games for the Detroit Tigers in the 2025 season.
Jackson Jobe last pitched for the Detroit Tigers on May 28, then underwent surgery June 16 to repair the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow.
(Expected Weighted On-Base Average on Contact) is a measure from Statcast that considers a player’s offensive production only when they make contact, removing strikeouts, walks, and hit-by-pitches to assess the quality of batted balls, indicating how well a player should have performed on contact alone, not what they actually got.
These six players just missed the cut for the Free Press' All-125 team despite outsized roles in the 125-season history of the Detroit Tigers.