Registration for the Annual Fall Baseball League in Auburn Hills, run by Jason Thompson Baseball, is open now through Aug. 7.

The league is for players ages nine to 18 (split into five age divisions) and runs from Aug. 20 to Oct. 16.

A registration form and more info can be found at jasonthompsonbaseball.com, or you can register over the phone at 248-853-2255. Jason Thompson Baseball is owned and operated by former Detroit Tigers first baseman Jason Thompson, a three-time MLB All-Star.

Cost is $175 for one player, or $155 per person for a whole team (11 or more players).

Here’s a look back at the moves — big and small — made by the Detroit Tigers since the end of the forgettable 2015 season, as well as some of the stories that made news, as those moves were happening. Each of the red links is a link to the relevant story:


Player transactions — incoming
Traded for RP Francisco Rodriguez • 11/18/15

Traded for OF Cameron Maybin • 11/20/15

Signed SP Jordan Zimmermann • 11/29/15  • [PHOTO GALLERY]

Signed SP Mike Pelfrey • 12/4/15

Signed C Jarrod Saltalamacchia • 12/6/15

Signed RP Mark Lowe • 12/8/15

Traded for RP Justin Wilson • 12/9/15

Signed 17 minor-league free agents • 12/15/15

Signed IF/OF Mike Aviles, 1-year deal • 12/18/15



Player transactions — outgoing
Alex Avila signs with White Sox • 11/25/15

Rajai Davis signs with Indians • 12/17/15

Mike Hessman retires • 11/28/15

Trade Kyle Lobstein to Pirates for cash • 12/21/15



Player transactions — bookkeeping
Josh Wilson removed from roster, elects free agency • 10/15/15

Declined $10 million option on Joe Nathan’s contract • 11/3/15

Added Luis Cessa to 40-man roster • 11/3/15

JaCoby Jones suspended 50 games for failed drug test • 11/5/15

Added Fulmer, Labourt, Robertson to 40-man roster • 11/20/15



Staffing changes
Jeff Jones retires as pitching coach • 10/19/15

Hire Rich Dubee as pitching coach • 10/29/15

Beef up scouting, analytics department • 11/19/15

Lloyd McClendon announced as Mud Hens manager • 11/23/15

Announced minor league assignments, including Mike Hessman • 12/2/15



Player awards
Kinsler wins Fielding Bible Award • 10/30/15

McCann named Tigers Rookie of the Year • 11/6/15

Cespedes wins Gold Glove • 11/10/15

Cabrera, J.D. Martinez win Silver Slugger Awards • 11/12/15

J.D. Martinez named Tiger of the Year • 11/12/15



More analysis/reaction stories
Predicting the MLB postseason awards for 2015 • 10/5/15

Now that Tigers have top 10 pick, they have to make sure they use it wisely • 10/5/15

Tigers would like to lock up J.D. Martinez long term; Avila: ‘I can tell you we would have interest in something like that’ • 10/8/15

Tigers GM Al Avila reflects on 2015: ‘Not in my wildest dreams did I think we’d have a brutal season like we did’ • 10/8/15

Al Avila says Tigers will look for a pair of starters, pair of relievers in offseason • 10/8/15

Tigers won’t force-feed rookies into rotation next year; ‘As we’ve learned, it doesn’t usually work out for us’ • 10/9/15

Numbers added up for an abysmal season for Tigers in 2015 • 10/10/15

Time to face facts, Tigers fans: Yoenis Cespedes, David Price are probably not returning, as you’d hoped • 10/13/15

Tigers can’t run the risk of counting on Bruce Rondon to come back more mature — and they know it • 10/14/15

Norris announces he’ll have surgery to remove growth • 10/19/15

Tigers finally opening eyes to analytics movement in baseball; ‘It’s probably one area the Tigers are lagging behind the industry’ • 10/20/15

Five things to know about the Tigers’ search to fill their open pitching coach position • 10/26/15

Tigers certainly missed Torii Hunter in 2015; do they need to replace his leadership for next season? • 10/27/15

Norris has successful surgery to remove growth • 10/29/15

Willingness to embrace analytics made Dubee ‘clear’ choice • 10/29/15

Tigers have three Gold Glove finalists, but Ian Kinsler is best bet to end the drought • 10/29/15

As offseason heats up, Tigers GM Al Avila makes appearance on ‘Hot Stove’ • 11/5/15

Offseason plan in place, Tigers head to GM meetings ‘open for business’ • 11/7/15

Deep free-agent class of pitchers sets up well for Tigers to get the two starters they need • 11/10/15

Tigers will try, try again, to shore up shaky bullpen with offseason additions • 11/12/15

Ironic that Dombrowski swings deal for closer now, but Tigers couldn’t have made same trade • 11/14/15

Five reasons why K-Rod may (or may not) succeed where other aging closer signings have failed Tigers • 11/18/15

Rajai Davis robbed Jerry Sands of a potential RBI hit in the fourth inning of Saturday's game against the Indians, racing into the left-center field gap, and diving at the last moment to make the catch.

Through five innings, Tigers starter Alfredo Simon had not allowed a hit.

In the fifth inning of Sunday's game, Rangers manager Jeff Banister and third baseman Adrian Beltre were both tossed for arguing balls and strikes. At first, it was hard to tell which guys umpires Adam Hamari and Ron Kulpa had thrown out in which order.

That prompted this tweet:

Template for future use: ______ ejected _____ for ______. Subsequently, ______ was ejected by ______. Sincerely, #UmpShowInc

— Matthew B. Mowery (@matthewbmowery) August 23, 2015

(For the record, I think it was Beltre by Hamari, followed by Banister by Kulpa, but you can see for yourself.)

Check out the video here:



Maybe Banister just wanted more time for another trip to Ann Arbor to hang out with University of Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh. 

Daniel Norris hit a home run to dead center field in his first big-league at-bat Wednesday night, a two-run shot off Jon Lester.

CLICK HERE to read more about the historical significance of that feat.

Watch the video below:

Tigers shortstop Jose Iglesias got into a heated altercation in the dugout with teammate James McCann in Friday night's game.

[CLICK HERE TO READ MORE]

You can watch the full video here:

A black squirrel found its way onto the field at Comerica Park during the Detroit Tigers' eighth-inning rally against the Kansas City Royals, momentarily delaying the game.

[CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT THE SQUIRREL]

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE:

Daniel Norris' Tigers debut started well, with a 1-2-3 first inning, and got even better in the second, when he made a spectacular diving catch.

The rookie left-hander, acquired in the deal for David Price, made a diving lunge off the mound to catch a popped-up bunt attempt by the Orioles' J.J. Hardy Sunday afternoon.

Watch Norris' play here:

The Detroit Tigers reportedly traded closer Joakim Soria to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday, and apparently are getting back SS/OF JaCoby Jones in the deal.

Here's a look at Jones, who was a third-round pick in the 2013 draft, out of LSU (above left).

[CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY]

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The Detroit Tigers swapped the final two months of David Price's contract for three prospects from the Toronto Blue Jays system — lefties Daniel Norris, Matt Boyd and Jairo Labourt.

Here, MLB.com's Jim Callis talks about the three prospects the Tigers are getting, along with some video of them in action.

[CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY ON THE TRADE]

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J.D. Martinez, who hit a tape-measure home run Tuesday, already had one that ranked among the longest in Comerica Park history.

On May 15, 2013, when Martinez was still a member of the Houston Astros, he hit a two-run blast off Max Scherzer that went 464 feet, off the honor wall in left-center field, under the Willie Horton and Ty Cobb signs.

It's ranked as the longest home run by a visiting player in the park's history.

Here's the video:

J.D. Martinez hit a 466-foot blast to the top of the camera well in center field, tying Miguel Cabrera for the longest home run in Comerica Park history.

[READ MORE ABOUT IT HERE]

Watch the home run below: 

Ian Kinsler was ejected by home plate umpire Manny Gonzalez in the third inning of Sunday's game.

Read more about it here.

Watch video of his ejection here:

J.D. Martinez came to the Tigers with a reputation as not being a great defensive outfielder, but he's worked hard to turn that around.

"I just don't want to be the guy in the outfield that's a hazard," he said recently.

He was anything but a hazard in right field Friday night, robbing Chris Davis of a home run to end the third inning, then leaping to catch a sharp liner off the bat of Jimmy Paredes to end the fourth.

Here's video of the homer-robbing catch:

Alex Avila has played at first base before — mostly as an underclassman in college — but very little as a professional.

"It’s a little different, because I hadn’t played there regularly since college. There’s a different aspect, there’s a different angle to field. You’re more used to looking at everybody," he said before Saturday's game.

"Obviously, there’s different fundamentals to go along with that, which I have the basics of. I’m not going to be amazing over there, by any means. I’m going to be adequate."
He looked like an old pro on this play in his first career big-league start at first, robbing Toronto's Russell Martin with a catch on a foul ball in the fourth inning.

Watch the video here:

Former Tigers prospect Gorkys Hernandez was called upon as a pinch runner in Tuesday's 14-inning affair between the Pirates and Tigers, but it didn't go like he'd planned.

He ended up getting confused about whether a fly ball to right-center field was caught or not, missed second base on his way back by, and was called out on appeal.

That play eventually was the basis for a scoring change that charged Tigers reliever Alex Wilson with the loss.

You can watch the play here:

"It’s not often you see a home run hit to center that you know is gone off the bat at Comerica Park," manager Brad Ausmus said. "And I think everyone knew it was gone off the bat."

Ausmus said that about Miguel Cabrera's home run that hit the camera well in center field Friday night, measured at 454 feet.

It was just as applicable to Sunday's fourth-inning home run, clocked at 450 feet, according to ESPN Stats and Info, that made it into the second row of shrubbery in center field, just right of the flag pole.

It got out fast enough to beat the deluge of rain that would suspend the game after the fifth inning.

As James McCann said Friday, "It's not right. It's not fair."

In one of the in-game entertainment pieces the Detroit Tigers play on the scoreboard between innings, players are asked which super power they'd want to have.

Some chose invisibility.

Anthony Gose said he wanted to be able to fly.

Umm, Anthony? Pretty sure you already can.

The Tigers' center fielder went Superman style in the first inning of Saturday's game, laying out to rob Michael Brantley of a base hit.

Pitcher Justin Verlander put his arms in the air like he'd just thrown his first no-hitter, and all of Gose's teammates were waiting to greet him between third base and the dugout.
Watch the video here:

DETROIT >> Miguel Cabrera can hit some poster-perfect home runs.

He may have outdone himself on this one.

The Tigers slugger hit his 13th home run in the sixth inning of Friday’s game, clanging it off the roof of the camera platform that’s suspended halfway up the center field wall at Comerica Park.

“It’s not right,” catcher James McCann said. “It’s not fair.”

It measured at 452 feet, according to ESPN. The wall is 420 feet away from home plate.

It was Cabrera’s 403rd career home run, and his 265th with the Tigers, and gave the Tigers a 3-0 lead over the Cleveland Indians at the time.

The Detroit Tigers snagged Ryan Castellanos in the 25th round of the 2015 MLB First-Year Player Draft. The best part was that they let his older brother, third baseman Nick Castellanos, make the selection on the league's conference call.

Here's the video of Nick drafting his younger brother:

When you help the #Tigers select your brother in the #MLBDraft! 🙌 pic.twitter.com/46LEDAGfms

— #VoteTigers (@tigers) June 10, 2015