LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers right-hander Kenta Maeda has been named the starting pitcher for the first Grapefruit League game in spring training, scheduled for Saturday against the ...

LAKELAND, Fla. — On the first day of spring training, a rumor circulated in TigerTown that Detroit Tigers right-hander Kenta Maeda threw harder in his first bullpen session this spring than at ...

Gleyber Torres drove in both runs for the Tigers. Right-hander Kenta Maeda has walked one batter and struck out 19 batters in 12⅔ innings across four games (three starts) in spring training ...

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Kenta Maeda was flying from Los Angeles to Tampa for the start of spring training a couple of weeks ago when he heard someone attempting to speak heavily accented Japanese in the ...

LAKELAND, Fla. -- 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 ...

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 ...

Detroit Tigers right-hander Kenta Maeda is coming off the worst season of his eight-year career. Maeda will start Saturday's Grapefruit League opener for the Detroit Tigers, part of a plan to ...

Detroit Tigers right-hander Kenta Maeda will start the spring training opener on Saturday against the Philadelphia Phillies. Maeda is coming off a career-worst ERA in 2024 as he enters his second ...