DETROIT -- Veteran pitcher Kenta Maeda will start the season in the Detroit Tigers' bullpen. Tigers manager A.J. Hinch announced the news to MLB.com and other reporters on Friday. The decision ...

LAKELAND, Fla. – Tigers manager A.J. Hinch met with Kenta Maeda on Friday and told him that he would start the season pitching out of the bullpen. “What we saw from Kenta this spring was ...

While the 35-year-old’s absence was not injury-related, the timing is far from ideal. Maeda is competing for the final spot in the Tigers’ starting rotation and has struggled at times this ...

The Detroit Tigers expected veteran righty Kenta Maeda to bolster their rotation when they signed him in 2023. Instead, Maeda begins this season where he ended last year: the bullpen. Maeda ...

Maybe my heart was warming in the press box, but I can give Báez a little company and throw in reliever Kenta Maeda as another player who needs to show a lot more improvement. He entered in the ...

Kenta Maeda (37) of the Detroit Tigers will start the season as a relief pitcher. The Japanese media, Sponichi Annex, reported on the 23rd that "it has been decided that Maeda of the Tigers will ...