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Detroit Tigers put these 27 players on prospect roster for 2025 Spring Breakout game
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LAKELAND, Fla. — Center fielder Max Clark, one of the flashiest and most highly touted prospects in baseball, wasn’t invited to the Detroit Tigers’ MLB camp for spring training. Instead, he was assigned to minor league camp.
But Clark will still get his big moment when he steps into the spotlight in the Spring Breakout game.
The Tigers are playing against the Atlanta Braves in a prospect-only matchup, scheduled for 4:05 p.m. March 16 at CoolToday Park in North Port, Florida. Once again, Hall of Fame shortstop Alan Trammell — a special assistant in the Tigers’ front office — will manage the Tigers in the Spring Breakout game.
It’s the second year of the Spring Breakout showcase in spring training.
The Spring Breakout roster is headlined by Clark, a 20-year-old who hit .264 with a .765 OPS in 34 games in High-A West Michigan in the 2024 season as the No. 3 overall pick in the 2023 draft.
There are 27 players on the roster, including 18 prospects from the Tigers’ top-30 list (as ranked by MLB Pipeline): Clark (No. 2), Kevin McGonigle (No. 3), Bryce Rainer (No. 4), Thayron Liranzo (No. 5), Josue Briceño (No. 6), Hao-Yu Lee (No. 8), Jaden Hamm (No. 9), Troy Melton (No. 13), Franyerber Montilla (No. 14), Enrique Jimenez (No. 17), Jake Miller (No. 18), Josh Randall (No. 19), Joseph Montalvo (No. 20), Michael Massey (No. 21), Roberto Campos (No. 23), Max Anderson (No. 24), Carson Rucker (No. 25), Tyler Owens (No. 29).
Right-hander Jackson Jobe, the Tigers’ No. 1 prospect, is not competing in the Spring Breakout game. Rather, Jobe is focused on winning a spot in the Tigers’ Opening Day starting rotation.
Five of the prospects on the Spring Breakout roster made MLB Pipeline’s top-100 prospects list, all position players: Clark at No. 6, McGonigle at No. 28, Rainer at No. 52, Liranzo at No. 81 and Briceño at No. 94.
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2025 Spring Breakout roster
Right-handed pitchers (9): Jaden Hamm, Troy Melton, Josh Randall, Joseph Montalvo, Michael Massey, Tyler Owens, Max Alba, RJ Petit, CJ Weins.
Left-handed pitchers (2): Jake Miller, Micah Ashman.
Catchers (2): Thayron Liranzo, Enrique Jimenez.
Infielders (9): Kevin McGonigle, Bryce Rainer, Josue Briceno, Hao-Yu Lee, Franyerber Montilla, Max Anderson, Carson Rucker, Jake Holton, John Peck.
Outfielders (5): Max Clark, Roberto Campos, Seth Stephenson, Nomar Fana, Brett Callahan.
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Detroit Tigers lose fifth straight, Kerry Carpenter injured
Detroit Tigers blow lead, lose to Kansas City Royals on walk-off hit.
The Tigers lost, 4-3, to the Royals on Kyle Isbel’s walk-off single in the ninth inning.
Kansas City, Mo. — The losing streak is now five games. The road record is now an MLB-worst 6-16.
The Kansas City Royals prolonged the Tigers’ misery Saturday night with a relatively breezy 5-1 win at Kauffman Stadium.
Oh, and the Tigers might’ve lost another player in the process.
Right fielder Kerry Carpenter left the game in the third inning. He banged his left shoulder running into the side wall chasing Bobby Witt Jr.’s first-inning, two-run, inside-the-park home run.
Witt, a right-handed hitter, sliced a drive inside the bag at first. Carpenter chased it toward the side wall, but the ball caromed past him. Witt never stopped running.
Carpenter stayed in the game and even rolled an infield single in the second inning. But he was replaced by Wenceel Perez when the Royals came to bat in the third inning.
BOX SCORE: Royals 5, Tigers 1
He was being evaluated during the game.
The two-run homer by Witt ended up being more than the Tigers’ sputtering offense could overcome. But, for good measure, Michael Massey added a three-run home run off Ty Madden in the fourth inning.
Madden ended up being one of the few bright spots in the game for the Tigers. He pitched six innings and allowed just one other hit. He set down the last 11 hitters he faced.
He entered in the third inning after opener Burch Smith and lefty Tyler Holton worked one time through the Royals’ batting order.
Holton made a nifty escape in the first inning. With runners at second and third and one out, and two runs already in, Jac Caglianone hit a hard ground ball to second baseman Zach McKinstry, who was playing in on the grass.
McKinstry got the out at first. The runner at second, Carter Jensen, mistakenly broke for third where Vinnie Pasquantino was holding.
Spencer Torkelson threw to shortstop Kevin McGonigle who threw to catcher Jake Rogers once Pasquantino broke for home — your basic 4-3-6-2 double-play.
Not much else went the Tigers’ way.
Royals right-hander Michael Wacha snuffed out the few scoring opportunities the Tigers mustered.
He worked around an error and a McKinstry stolen base in the third innings. He got Jake Rogers to pop to shallow right field with runners at first and third and one out and then got Matt Vierling to ground out with the bases loaded in the fifth.
Wacha allowed two hits in seven innings. The Tigers put 18 balls in play against him with a soft average exit velocity of 84.4 mph.
The Tigers broke through in the eighth against lefty reliever Matt Strahm. And it was left-handed hitters who did the dirty work. Riley Greene, who extended his career-high on-base streak to 20 games, doubled home McGonigle.
This season is a long way from over but Tigers, 18-22, are in serious need a course correction.
Chris.McCosky@detroitnews.com
@cmccosky
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Patchy dense fog turns to stronger thunderstorms for Metro Detroit to start the weekend
4Warn Weather – SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy skies. A chance of showers and thunderstorms. A few storms could be strong with gusty winds and hail. High: 71.
SATURDAY NIGHT: Mostly cloudy skies, becoming partly cloudy skies late. Low: 45.
SUNDAY (MOTHER’S DAY): Mix of sunshine and clouds, cooler temperatures. High: 61.
SUNDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy skies. Another chilly night. Low: 41.
MONDAY: Mostly sunny skies, remaining chilly. High: 58.
After a beautiful end to the week on Friday with sunshine and a little cloud cover, with warmer temperatures moving into the region as well, some of us are waking up to some patchy dense fog on Saturday morning. Some places south of M-59 are seeing reduced visibilities down to around a mile. If you do run into some patchy dense fog, be sure to use your low beams.
That warming trend continues into the start of the weekend on Saturday, but it also brings a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Another cold front will work through the region by Saturday afternoon and early Saturday evening and that will bring our thunderstorm chance. High temperature is warming into low 70s by Saturday afternoon.
The Storm Prediction Center has placed most of the region under a Marginal Risk (1 out of 5) on our severe weather scale for the start of the weekend. Gusty winds and hail are the primary threats as we work through the start of the weekend, but this will not be a widespread threat for severe thunderstorms.
Behind that cold front for the end of the weekend on Sunday, we will keep a mixture of sunshine and clouds into the forecast. High temperatures running about 10 to 15° cooler to end the weekend. Expect high to warm into the upper 50s to lower 60s by Sunday afternoon.
Drier weather sticks around for the start of next week, before another chance of rain moves into the region by the time we get to Tuesday. The cooler-than-average temperatures will continue into the start of next week as well. Expect high temperatures to remain in the 50s for Monday and Tuesday.
Temperature start to warm up by the middle of next week, and Drier weather moves back in by Wednesday behind another cold front moving into the region. Expect high temperatures into the lower 60s on Wednesday to warm into the upper 60s by the time we get to Thursday. Above average temperatures move back into the region as we look ahead into the end of the week, expect high temperatures back into the lower 70s by the time we get to Friday.
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