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DET • 3B
2 days ago
McGonigle had started each of the team’s previous eight games and 20 of their first 21. He’ll get a well-deserved breather with left-hander Garrett Crochet toeing the slab for the Red Sox. Expect the 21-year-old phenom to still make an appearance off the bench in a key late-game situation if needed. On the season, he’s slashing .312/.411/.481 with one homer, nine RBI, one stolen base and an elite 11/13 K/BB ratio through his first 90 plate appearances in the big leagues.
Source: MLB
DET • 3B
2 days ago
McGonigle had started each of the team’s previous eight games and 20 of their first 21. He’ll get a well-deserved breather with left-hander Garrett Crochet toeing the slab for the Red Sox. Expect the 21-year-old phenom to still make an appearance off the bench in a key late-game situation if needed. On the season, he’s slashing .312/.411/.481 with one homer, nine RBI, one stolen base and an elite 11/13 K/BB ratio through his first 90 plate appearances in the big leagues.
Source: MLB
DET • 3B
4 days ago
The Tigers found themselves on the receiving end of a tough loss after they took a scoreless tie into extras on Friday. McGonigle’s single in the first inning was one of just four hits for the Tigers on the night, as Ranger Suarez stifled them for eight innings of shutout ball. McGonigle has now hit safely in three-straight games and has reached base safely in his last seven.
DET • 3B
6 days ago
McGonigle follows behind Konnor Griffin and Colt Emerson as high-end prospects who have inked long-term extensions before completing their first month in the big leagues. McGonigle’s deal is the biggest extension signed by a prospect ever, breaking Griffin’s record ($140 million) from last week. The 21-year-old is off to a great start to his MLB career, and will now be a fixture in the middle of the Tigers lineup for years to come.
Source: Jeff Passan
DET • 3B
9 days ago
He also walked. McGonigle’s homer was a solo shot off Sandy Alcantara in the fifth. It left his bat at 108.8 mph, making it his second hardest-hit ball to date. (He had a 109.5-mph single off Chris Paddack on Friday.) He’s batting .322/.412/.508 through 68 plate appearances, and as the Tigers’ everyday leadoff man, he could maintain a fair amount of fantasy value even if he’s not a big source of homers or stolen bases as a rookie.
DET • 3B
12 days ago
It’s the rookie’s first day off of the season, and it’s just a routine off day. Javier Baez will play shortstop and bat seventh with Colt Keith at first base and Gleyber Torres at DH. McGonigle is off to a strong start to his MLB career, hitting .292/.370/.438 with a 7/6 K/BB ratio in 12 games.
DET • 3B
14 days ago
McGonigle drove in the first run of the game for the Tigers with an RBI single, and he doubled in a run an inning later. Unfortunately for Detroit this all came after the team fell behind 4-0, but it’s another impressive game for the 21-year-old infielder. It’s hard to not be impressed with a slash of .302/.388/.465, and to say he’s passed the eye test in the process is quite the understatement.
DET • 3B
15 days ago
McGonigle gets a look atop Detroit’s lineup with red-hot Colt Keith being moved to the third spot in the order with veteran Gleyber Torres sandwiched in between. The 21-year-old hitting machine has been a revelation in his first taste of the majors, hitting .303/.410/.455 with four extra-base hits and five RBI through nine games. He’s also walked six times while only striking out five times during that span.
Source: MLB.com
DET • 3B
18 days ago
With Colt Keith out of the lineup, it will be McGonigle batting leadoff and playing third base. The 21-year-old is 8-for-22 to start the season with five RBIs. He has also appeared in four games at third base and three games at shortstop, so he may pick up dual eligibility soon in certain formats. That only adds to his value.
DET • 3B
20 days ago
All this guy does is hit. On a day where the Tigers were shutout he gave them their best scoring chance with a one-out triple in the sixth inning only to get doubled up on a sharp line drive by Gleyber Torres just after. Regardless, he scorched three more hard-hit balls and has reached base safely in five of the first six games of his young career. It feels like there’s no stopping him.
DET • 3B
21 days ago
The McGonigle era has gotten off to a phenomenal start with Detroit’s top prospect hitting .357 (5-for-14) with two doubles and four RBI through four games. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the 21-year-old hitting machine’s early-season performance has been his plate discipline, as he’s struck out just three times while also drawing three walks. He’s batting second for the first time on Tuesday night at Chase Field after hitting sixth at the outset of the year.
Source: MLB.com
DET • 3B
21 days ago
The McGonigle era has gotten off to a phenomenal start with Detroit’s top prospect hitting .357 (5-for-14) with two doubles and four RBI through four games. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the 21-year-old hitting machine’s early-season performance has been his plate discipline, as he’s struck out just three times while also drawing three walks. He’s batting second for the first time on Tuesday night at Chase Field after hitting sixth at the outset of the year.
Source: MLB.com
DET • 3B
24 days ago
McGonigle will get his first start in the big leagues at shortstop. The 21-year-old has been sensational over his first two games of the year; going 5-for-8 with one of his outs being a robbed homer by Jackson Merrill. With McGonigle at short, Javier Báez will begin Saturday’s game on the bench.
DET • 3B
24 days ago
It looked as though the 21-year-old phenom had connected on his first big league home run in the second inning, only to see Jackson Merrill pull it back from over the center field wall. He still made his mark on the game though. McGonigle strolled to the dish with the bases loaded and two outs in a 2-2 game in the eighth inning. Padres’ skipper Craig Stammen turned to left-hander Wandy Peralta to try to get him out, but McGonigle battled him for 10 pitches, fouling off four two-strike offerings and working the count full before lining a go-ahead two-run single into right field that proved to be the difference. He’s off to a sizzling 5-for-8 (.625) start to his big league career with two runs scored and four RBI.
DET • 3B
26 days ago
The 21-year-old phenom came to the dish with the bases loaded in the opening inning and laced the first pitch that he saw from Nick Pivetta for a two-run single into right field that increased the Tigers’ early lead to 3-0. In the third inning, he worked his way back from an 0-2 count before crushing a 2-2 fastball (105.9 mph EV) off the top of the wall in right field for another double. He also reached on an infield single in the fifth — exhibiting elite speed with a sprint speed of 30.2 ft/s — before riding home on Dillon Dingler’s two-run blast. If he keeps this up, he won’t be hitting sixth in the Tigers’ lineup for very long.
DET • 3B
26 days ago
McGonigle earned a starting job in spring training and won’t be buried at the bottom of the lineup. That’s good news for McGonigle’s potential RBI totals this season. The remainder of the Tigers’ starting lineup is: Kerry Carpenter RF, Gleyber Torres 2B, Colt Keith DH, Riley Greene LF, Spencer Torkelson 1B, Kevin McGonigle 3B, Dillon Dingler C, Parker Meadows CF, and Javier Baez SS.