Casey Mize will start the Detroit Tigers' first road exhibition game of the Grapefruit League season. Mize will pitch on Sunday in Tampa against the New York Yankees. Manager A.J. Hinch previously announced that Kenta Maeda would start Saturday’s opener in Lakeland against the Philadelphia Phillies.

Ty Madden maintains six pitches, Kenta Maeda seven. Jackson Jobe is adding a curveball, Casey Mize is adding a sweeper. How many pitches is too many?

Maeda was throwing 92 mph during a live batting practice session Tuesday, Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press reports. It's up from the 90.8 mph he averaged with his four-seamer last season and significantly more velocity than he was showing during spring training last year.

Cobb's injury figures to prevent him from being able to ramp up properly for Opening Day, so the Tigers will have to fill his rotation spot for at least a turn or two. Maeda is a veteran option with plenty of MLB starts under his belt,

Kenta Maeda said it was the most frustrating season of his career and he was determined it wouldn’t happen again. So, at age 36, he scrapped the offseason routine that had served him well for more than a decade and tried something new.

When he ended the 2024 season in the bullpen, Detroit Tigers pitcher Kenta Maeda was told he would compete for a spot in the starting rotation. Luckily, that was some motivation he truly needed. After ending the 2024 season horrifically,

The Detroit Tigers are well in the thick of spring training, getting started with games on Saturday afternoon. Manager A.J. Hinch raised some eyebrows when he d