Tenacious D Posted February 10 Posted February 10 Keith Law Lovefest 💕 on Tigers Today podcast w/Tony Paul (apologies—couldn’t paste the link) Quote
LongLiveMaroth Posted February 13 Posted February 13 Confirmed Detroit Tigers prospects stateside for the 2026 Season: - OF Cris Rodriguez - INF Angel De Los Santos - INF Nestor Miranda - OF Santiago Pinto - RHP Jhonan Coba - LHP Anderson Diaz Obviously CR is the most anticipated but I am interested in De Los Santos as well. 1 1 Quote
Tenacious D Posted February 13 Posted February 13 34 minutes ago, LongLiveMaroth said: Confirmed Detroit Tigers prospects stateside for the 2026 Season: - OF Cris Rodriguez - INF Angel De Los Santos - INF Nestor Miranda - OF Santiago Pinto - RHP Jhonan Coba - LHP Anderson Diaz Obviously CR is the most anticipated but I am interested in De Los Santos as well. LLM bringing the good stuff again—I may re-up my Motown Forums subscription for another season. Quote
Edman85 Posted February 13 Posted February 13 1 hour ago, LongLiveMaroth said: Confirmed Detroit Tigers prospects stateside for the 2026 Season: - OF Cris Rodriguez - INF Angel De Los Santos - INF Nestor Miranda - OF Santiago Pinto - RHP Jhonan Coba - LHP Anderson Diaz Obviously CR is the most anticipated but I am interested in De Los Santos as well. They are over now? I ask because I believe they count against the Domestic Reserve List if so. Quote
LongLiveMaroth Posted February 13 Posted February 13 1 hour ago, Edman85 said: They are over now? I ask because I believe they count against the Domestic Reserve List if so. Well Nestor and CR are for sure. Quote
papalawrence Posted February 16 Posted February 16 Nice article with Liranzo. Offers some insight into what may have impacted his 2025 season Tigers prospect opens up about grief, growth and lessons from a tough season - mlive.com https://share.google/a9jWhux3rb9w6Yv7E 1 Quote
LongLiveMaroth Posted February 16 Posted February 16 10 hours ago, papalawrence said: Nice article with Liranzo. Offers some insight into what may have impacted his 2025 season Tigers prospect opens up about grief, growth and lessons from a tough season - mlive.com https://share.google/a9jWhux3rb9w6Yv7E I was just coming to drop that article in here. He's a little young to be in the best shape of his life, but it is a great to see that he leveraged the things available from both a mental and physical side and he felt comfortable to talk about it. If he can take a step forward that would be great he is only 22 and Dingler was in Erie for parts of 3 seasons. Quote
LongLiveMaroth Posted February 16 Posted February 16 Fangraphs dropped their rankings. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2026-top-100-prospects/ McGonigle 5 Clark 7 Rainer 23 Briceno 63 Liranzo 105 1 Quote
buddha Posted February 16 Posted February 16 That's the lowest i've seen mcgonigle ranked in a while, but i dont spend a ton of time looking. Quote
Edman85 Posted February 16 Posted February 16 6 hours ago, LongLiveMaroth said: Fangraphs dropped their rankings. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2026-top-100-prospects/ McGonigle 5 Clark 7 Rainer 23 Briceno 63 Liranzo 105 Quote It’s far too early to say, but there’s a chance that Detroit selecting McGonigle and Max Clark in the first round of the 2023 draft will wind up being a single-night turning point in the franchise’s trajectory. 2 Quote
Tigermojo Posted February 16 Posted February 16 Can't wait to watch them circling the bases for years to come. Quote
LongLiveMaroth Posted February 18 Posted February 18 On 2/16/2026 at 4:21 PM, Edman85 said: I saw that and almost quoted it. Hard not to be a little hopeful for that future. Quote
Edman85 Posted yesterday at 03:28 PM Posted yesterday at 03:28 PM (edited) Fangraphs dropped their Tigers list yesterday. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/detroit-tigers-top-47-prospects/ Quote This is almost certainly the most hitter-heavy system in baseball. We can’t recall publishing a list with no pitchers in the top 10, or one with only a single arm in the top 15. Of the teams we’ve covered this cycle, even position player centric groups like the Mariners and Dodgers had five pitchers in their top 15. This is mostly a good thing for Detroit, as they have one of the best systems in the game. Guys with a chance to really hit are scarce and highly valuable; it’s nice to have a lot of them. For a variety of reasons, it’s easier to develop arms than bats, so it makes sense to prioritize the latter in the draft, trades, and the international market. The Tigers have consistently done so in recent years, and as you can see from the top of the list, they’ve crushed. Max Clark and Kevin McGonigle are the best one-two punch in the minors, and the other three Top 100 guys could all hit in the middle of the order at maturity. Critically, the Tigers’ tolerance for acquiring high-upside, and at times risky, hitters is fueling their depth. They don’t always nail it: Jace Jung has stalled, Nestor Miranda got seven figures two years ago and is only an Honorable Mention, etc. But while you can sometimes make a pitcher, you generally have to go get the hitters. Detroit has done a great job of it. Still, it’s worth asking: Where are the arms? We first started wondering about this when we noticed that we only had a couple middle relievers in the 40 FV group, but we soon realized that the question applied broadly. Part of the answer is that Troy Melton, Jackson Jobe, and Sawyer Gipson-Long are all recent graduates, so there are young pitchers lurking around the big league club, even if they’re not eligible for our list. And to some degree, it’s not surprising that a front office aggressively prioritizing position players in all phases doesn’t have a ton of blue chip hurlers. The less flattering part of the equation is that 2025 wasn’t a great year on the farm for pitchers. A ton of guys got hurt — we’re not sure what to make of the spate of hip injuries — and the pop-up arms tended to be types who enhance the organization’s depth rather than ones playing themselves into contention for a big role. Andrew Sears is arguably the story of the year on the mound, and he’s our choice for the team’s top pitching prospect. We like him a good bit, but he also may just be a middle reliever. There’s not much depth here. While it’s lopsided in the right direction, the Tigers system is imbalanced. The imminent consequence is that Detroit is less able to lean on its farm system to supplement the big league club than everyone else gunning for a deep October run. The Tigers have up-and-down types who can eat innings in lower-leverage spots, but if they need someone to make a big impact later this summer, they will probably need to look externally. Edited yesterday at 04:10 PM by Edman85 1 Quote
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