According to reports, former Detroit Tigers 2B/SS Dixon Machado has signed a minor league contract with the Chicago Cubs. According to AZ Phil at @thecubreporter, the Cubs have signed Dixon Machado to a minor lg contract. He will provide middle infield depth for the Iowa Cubs, in all likelihood. Machado has bounced between AAA and … Read more
JaCoby Jones becomes the second Tiger in three days to end a game with a walk-off home run. This time it was in the 10th inning off of Royals reliever Brad Keller to give the Tigers a 3-2 win in their series opener. Jones led off the inning and sent a 2-2 laser over the left field … Read more
As Miguel Cabrera was taking a sip of coffee in the clubhouse preparing for extra innings on his birthday, Dixon Machado ended Wednesday’s game against the Baltimore Orioles with a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. The game was a 2-1 affair heading into the eighth inning, which included a solid … Read more
Opening Day for the Detroit Tigers is a little over a month away, and expectations are pretty low for our baseball team. Most experts believe that the Tigers will lose 90+ games this year. That being said, there are some intriguing and fun reasons to watch this team, and I believe they are actually going to … Read more
Now that Ian Kinsler has officially been traded to the Los Angeles Angels, Dixon Machado will take over the second base duties for the Detroit Tigers beginning with the 2018 season. With Machado likely becoming the full-time second baseman, the Tigers will be looking to sign a player who can fill more of a utility … Read more
Are the Detroit Tigers looking to move one or both of the remaining players that actually have some trade value to other teams? The two players in question are second baseman Ian Kinsler and shortstop Jose Iglesias. Al Avila said he's taken calls already on both Kinsler and Iglesias. Said he's not opposed to trading both, … Read more
The rebuild is officially in motion for the Detroit Tigers, following the big-time trades of both Justin Upton to the Angels and cornerstone ace Justin Verlander to the Astros last week. It appears the big-spending days for the Tigers are over for the foreseeable future as the team looks to continue getting younger, leaner and … Read more
It’s hard to imagine given the amount of success the team has had in the last decade, but the Detroit Tigers are indeed entering a rebuild. That realization came to fruition this past Thursday when the team decided to trade both Justin Upton to the Angels and Justin Verlander to the Astros, two veterans who … Read more
It is no secret that the 2018 Detroit Tigers may look a lot different than this year’s current club. With 2017 as disappointing as it has been the talk around town is that the team will be going through a much-needed rebuild. The stated goal of the organization going forward was to get younger and more athletic … Read more
That first one is always special with everything. For big league ball players, that first home run is always an unforgettable moment. And on Thursday, Detroit Tigers infielder Dixon Machado finally got that monkey off his back. Machado got the starting nod at shortstop yesterday in the series finale at home against the San Francisco … Read more
Spring training. It’s pointless, right? Oh, but on the contrary. The baseball preseason serves many purposes. Among those is for the fringe major league players needing to make a big statement to the organization, in hopes of just staying on the big league roster come Opening Day. There’s a bevy of those on every team … Read more
The win-loss results of battles in spring training are virtually irrelevant. What is important in preseason baseball are the competitions between personnel for positions, the battles within the battles if you will. As Opening Day draws near, the Tigers will have a number of major decisions to make when it comes to compiling the 25-man lineup, … Read more
When the Tigers took a nose dive in 2015, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Trading away assets mid-season ultimately allowed them to reel in some notable prospects. And just about all of them, led by 2016 American League Rookie of the Year Michael Fulmer, are already making an impact in some capacity … Read more
The Tigers are prepared and content to depart the Winter Meetings having not made a single move, after much speculation leading up that would drastically contradict that notion. There is however a rumor swirling around revolving a new name to surface on the Hot Stove, shortstop Jose Iglesias. Team general manager Al Avila revealed yesterday that multiple … Read more
With a new collective bargaining agreement put in place for the next five seasons, all of Major League Baseball can turn off the panic meter and resume all off-season business. With the Winter Meetings right around the corner next week, teams will be very active in assessing their rosters and figuring out who will be … Read more
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