When my nearly 90-year-old grandpa, Bill Birkle, was forced to the hospital for pneumonia, it was the Detroit Tigers that kept his mind off things.

New Detroit Tigers reliever Geoff Hartlieb has a 7.92 ERA with 59 walks and 80 strikeouts across 80⅔ innings in six MLB seasons, spanning 66 games.

The Tigers led the AL Central by seven games on Sept. 6, 2009, and proceeded to finish the year 11-15 while the Twins won 18 of 26. That forced a Game 163, where the Tigers appropriately blew a 10th-inning lead to ultimately lose in 12.

As the MLB trade deadline nears, Marcell Ozuna is a top candidate to be dealt by the struggling Braves, with the Detroit Tigers emerging as a logical landing spot for the power-hitting DH.

TCU director of athletics Mike Buddie once pitched against Kevin Costner in a Major League Baseball game called by Vin Scully that was played at Yankee Stadium. The new TCU AD has a few obscure details to his career that are unique to people in his position:

The Detroit Tigers are urged to swing a trade with a division rival for a star utility player to bolster their lineup for their playoff run.

Detroit Tigers ace left-hander Tarik Skubal was placed on the paternity list Wednesday with his wife close to giving birth to the couple's second child.