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Detroit Tigers reporter for MLB.com. Recovering marathoner. Xavier basketball, Chelsea FC fan. In search of great stories.

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Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 5h

Tigers catcher Dillon Dingler is a Gold Glove finalist alongside Toronto’s Alejandro Kirk and Boston’s Carlos Narváez.

Tigers haven’t had a Gold Glove winner at catcher since Pudge Rodríguez in 2007.

Winner will be announced Nov. 2 on ESPN.

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 1d

Plus more on Tigers’ previously agreed, just-announced contract extension with manager A.J. Hinch:

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Tigers maintain faith in Hinch, confirm manager's contract extension

DETROIT -- The Tigers have extended the contract of manager A.J. Hinch, president of baseball operations Scott Harris confirmed Monday at their season-ending press conference. Terms were not disclosed...

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 1d

“In some ways, it felt like this season was multiple seasons in one, multiple very different seasons in one,” Scott Harris said. “And we’ve got to take a hard look at all of it. We got to take all the good and we got to take all the bad. We got to learn from all of it.”

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Strikeouts, Skubal and prospects: Key points from Tigers' media session

DETROIT -- The playing field at Comerica Park still features the MLB postseason logo in foul territory along each baseline, with the Olde English D behind home plate. The postseason signage from the A...

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 1d

The fine point, 4-color pen spotted in the wild. Not easy to find.

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 2d

Scott Harris: “I expect the players that posted dominant years in Double-A to be in Detroit at some point next year. Does that affect what we do this winter? Absolutely. How could it not?”

He pretty much says top prospect Kevin McGonigle and others will be in big-league camp next spring.

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 2d

No news on Tigers coaching staff yet. They’re still working thru exit interviews.

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 2d

Innings concerns played into Tigers’ decision to move Troy Melton from rotation to bullpen at trade deadline, Scott Harris said. They didn’t believe they’d get the most out of him by keeping him in rotation. He’ll be a starter moving forward, A.J. Hinch said.

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 2d

Scott Harris: “We started to get more pitchable later in the year.”

Tigers got a little pull-happy in September, he added. They’ll work with hitters this offseason on approach development and bat paths.

Some improvement, Harris added, will come from hitters who come up thru farm system.

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 2d

Tigers extended manager A.J. Hinch’s contract earlier this year, Scott Harris confirmed. Terms not disclosed.

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 2d

Scott Harris declines comment on Tarik Skubal’s situation, including any trade potential.

Harris: “Tarik is a Tiger. I hope he wins his second consecutive Cy Young. He’s an incredible pitcher.”

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 2d

Some potential deals, Scott Harris said, would’ve brought in pending free agents who didn’t perform down the stretch for players who made their postseason roster.

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 2d

Scott Harris said he never gets thru a trade deadline without wondering what more he could have done. However, he said, “I think I’m even more confident now than I was then that the deals that I didn’t pull the trigger on would have frustrated us more.”

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 2d

Scott Harris: “We have to improve the environment for breaking in young players.”

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 2d

Scott Harris: “We need to improve our health and consistency on the mound.”

Injuries in farm system, he said, left him struggling to produce the second wave of pitching that they needed down the stretch.

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 2d

Scott Harris: “I can’t be naIve to the fact we need to get better in a lot of different areas.”

“We need to make more contact as an organization. We need to move the ball forward more.”

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 2d

Tigers president of baseball operations Scott Harris: “In some ways, this season felt like multiple seasons in one. … And we need to take a hard look at it.”

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 4d

Because the Mariners never used a lefty to face him. The only lefty to pitch was Gabe Speier, and he faced just three batters (Carpenter, Gleyber and Greene).

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 4d

Brought out my old scorebook for stretch run and playoffs, never thinking I’d need to use the 13th and 14th innings. Used the whole grid and then some last night. What an insane game.

Tigers scorebook page from Oct. 10 at Mariners

Mariners scorebook page from Oct. 10 vs. Tigers

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 4d

The Tigers rode Tarik Skubal and Pitching Chaos last October to get within a game of their first ALCS berth since 2013. On Friday, they did both in the same game. Somehow, they nearly pulled it off.

“The back half of that game is like a game in itself,” A.J. Hinch said.

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Tigers use pitching chaos over 8 1/3 frames as 'pen gives its all in extras

SEATTLE -- The Tigers were prepared to ride the left arm of Tarik Skubal as long as they could Friday night at T-Mobile Park to get to the ALCS. They got six innings and a winner-take-all postseason r...

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 4d

“It’s tough. I think it’s meant to sting. It’s meant to hurt,” Tarik Skubal said. “It’ll hurt for a little bit, and then you have to re-channel that into motivation, to make yourself never want to feel that feeling again.”

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Tigers' season ends after marathon 15-inning heartbreaker in Game 5

SEATTLE -- Tigers manager A.J. Hinch walked into the T-Mobile Park interview room Friday night with the remnants of tears in his eyes, his voice cracking as he tried to put the end of his club's seaso...

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 4d

Gleyber Torres told reporters after the game that he played through a hernia down the stretch and will undergo surgery.

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 4d

Dillon Dingler's 87.5 mph throw to nab Victor Robles trying to steal 2B might have been the best pitch of the 14th inning. Onward.

Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 4d

This is the longest postseason game in Tigers history. Technically, the Tigers' 13th-inning loss in the 2009 AL Central tiebreaker at Minnesota was a regular-season game, but that's now in the rearview mirror too.

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David Laurila FanGraphs @davidlaurila.bsky.social · 4d

The 2-3-4-5 hitters in the Tigers lineup are a combined 0-for-21 with 10 strikeouts.

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slangsonsports.bsky.social @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 4d

14 innings!!!

This is the longest winner-take-all game by innings in postseason history