Ryan Ford
Deputy Sports Editor at Detroit Free Press
Former Freep designer, now deputy editor for @freepsports. 2021 NSMA Michigan Sportswriter of the Year. Proud Cat Dad, Wazzu alum. (Go Cougs, right meow.)
Articles
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1 week ago |
freep.com | Ryan Ford
Ah, mid-April — time for showers, tax-company commercials and, yes, the annual warning across baseball: Small sample sizes may be misleading. Casey Mize, after all, entered Sunday’s start in Minnesota on pace to go 32-0 with 196 strikeouts and a 0.77 ERA this season. A couple rough innings brought those digits down to 22-10, 160 and 2.60. Still good, in a still-a-small-sample-size sort of way, but maybe not enough to pry the AL Cy Young Award from Tarik Skubal.
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2 weeks ago |
freep.com | Ryan Ford
It’s the torpedo bats, right? Has to be the torpedo bats. That weirdly shaped lumber (designed by a former Michigan professor) is why the New York Yankees, arriving at Comerica Park Monday for a three-game series (albeit one starting a little earlier than planned) against the Detroit Tigers, have crushed 25 homers in their first nine games, right?
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4 weeks ago |
freep.com | Ryan Ford
Opening Day — that’s today, by the way, with the Detroit Tigers on the road against the L.A. Dodgers — is about hope, and joy, and about things being better than they were the year before. I’m living proof of that.
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4 weeks ago |
freep.com | Ryan Ford |Evan Petzold
Click here for important updates to our privacy policy. We’re not saying baseball is easy to predict, but we’re coming into the 2025 season both having successfully predicted the 2024 champs, in the Los Angeles Dodgers. (Who did we have them beating? Uhhhh… look, over there — is that Miguel Cabrera?)Of course, the 162-game MLB season is full of twists and turns that are often completely unpredictable.
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4 weeks ago |
freep.com | Jeff Seidel |Carlos Monarrez |Shawn Windsor |Evan Petzold |Ryan Ford
Detroit Free Press sports writers predict the Tigers will win between 84 and 87 games in the 2025 season. Tarik Skubal is favored to repeat as AL Cy Young winner, but some writers acknowledge the difficulty of achieving consecutive wins. The Tigers' offense, which struggled at times last season, will be crucial in determining their playoff hopes. Ah, spring. When hope springs eternal in baseball ... as does the burning questions as we enter the 2025 season.
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