Prince Fielder RUMORS & NEWS

Michigan Live "Miguel Cabrera has been putting on a show. But the Detroit Tigers offense is not a one-man show. Prince Fielder proved that again Thursday night in a 7-6 win over the Minnesota Twins. Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland took the bat out of Cabrera's hands by asking Torii Hunter to bunt Omar..." May 24

Detroit Free Press "After Miguel Cabrera hit a three-run homer to rightfield on Sunday night, manager Jim Leyland repeated his belief that Cabrera has the best opposite-field power he has ever seen. Prince Fielder has to rank pretty high on that list, too. With the Tigers down two runs in the sixth inning..." April 30

Detroit News "He knew he was going to be awed by his new teammate. In fact, he was looking forward to it. This was more than a year ago, and Prince Fielder had just signed his huge contract with the Tigers. So most of the talk was about him. But some of his talk was about Miguel Cabrera. Or more..." April 01

Detroit News "Prince Fielder is at least loosening up as the Tigers grind into the heart of their Grapefruit League schedule. Fielder hit his second mammoth home run in five games, a sky-scraping blast that appeared to have eclipsed the right-field light tower's upper altitudes at Marchant Stadium, which was..." February 28

Detroit News "In one of those Grapefruit League games where things can get out of hand, things got out of hand Saturday for the Tigers as they lost, 10-3, to the Blue Jays in Detroit's spring-training home opener at Joker Marchant Stadium. Three pitchers who likely won't figure in the Tigers' immediate plans..." February 24

Detroit News "Can they make it three for three? If the Tigers go three-for-three — meaning three different players win the AL MVP in three years — who's the most likely third player? Alex Avila's nod goes to Prince Fielder. That's not to say, of course, there won't be a repeat winner, with either ace..." February 16

National Post "With his beefy frame and prodigious power, Prince Fielder doesn’t look like a player who can simply blend into a lineup. Somehow, the slugging first baseman did just that in his first season with the Detroit Tigers. Fielder signed a US$214-million deal early last year, arriving in Motown..." February 14

Detroit News "Prince Fielder is big! And we're not talking about his physique. On Tuesday, the Tigers slugging first baseman watched as the Topps company unveiled the world's largest baseball card — and Fielder is on it. The card, which features Fielder in his familiar follow-through, is 90 feet tall..." February 13

Detroit Free Press "Maybe the Tigers will have their third straight American League MVP next year, and maybe Prince Fielder will be the player that makes it happen. It has been a half-century since any big-league team provided the MVP three years in a row with three different players. The Yankees did it in 1961-63..." November 25

Detroit News "That's it. The Tigers season is over, in a four-game sweep at the hands of the San Francisco Giants. Many Tigers fans would prefer to forget about what took place in the last week. So cover your eyes if that applies to you. News: That was a disappointing display by the Tigers,..." October 29

Detroit News "The World Series is a day away and there are logistical issues, matchup issues and issues about what constitutes an issue. That's for others. The Tigers have no issues, even when it appears they do. From the manager who absorbs the hits, to laidback superstars Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder..." October 23

Detroit News "Oh, would he have preferred Comerica Park's baseball field at midday Friday to that media crowd and its cameras closing in on his locker. Prince Fielder's passion is playing baseball. Talking he could do without, unless it's kibitzing and giggling with his clubhouse and batting-order sidekick,..." October 06

Minneapolis Star Tribune "Every time Fernando Rodney finishes off a win for Tampa Bay, he pretends to shoot a bow and arrow into the sky, a gesture his former Tigers teammates couldn't wait to see this weekend, with the Rays playing the White Sox. "You can tell Fernando Rodney that if he shoots that [arrow] three times..." October 01

Detroit Free Press "Catcher Alex Avila might not be available tonight when the Tigers begin a three-game series against the Oakland Athletics at Comerica Park. Avila didn't play in Monday's 5-4 loss to the White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field, one day after suffering a sprained jaw after colliding with Prince..." September 18

Detroit Free Press "Prince Fielder's recent homers have meant a lot. Entering Tuesday, Fielder's last five homers had tied the score or put the Tigers ahead: • On Aug. 6 against the Yankees, he hit a bases-empty homer off Ivan Nova in the second to put the Tigers ahead. • On Aug. 10 at Texas, he came up with..." August 29

Detroit News "Here's what the Tigers can do about shaking up their troublesome bottom-half batting order. Realistically — nothing. Not unless their boss, Dave Dombrowski, can come up with some kind of replacement part that right now appears to be fantasy, is anything likely to change with manager Jim..." August 19

Detroit Free Press "A tie game in the later innings against the Baltimore Orioles isn't a recipe for success. Boasting the third-best bullpen in baseball (statistically, anyway) with huge flame-thrower Jim Johnson closing games, the Orioles don't surrender many late leads. But after unusual ordinary outing..." August 18

Detroit News "Hello, out there by the hedges. Yes, you. Above Harry Heilmann's name in right-center where a home run had never been hit at Comerica Park until Prince Fielder belted the first of his two on Friday night in the Tigers' 5-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. You never thought you'd need a..." August 18

Detroit News "He's had a good year, but had a great night. Prince Fielder's two monstrous home runs — one which tied the score in the sixth and another that broke the tie in the eighth — handed the Tigers a 5-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles at Comerica Park on Friday night. They were the kind of home..." August 18

Detroit Free Press "Prince Fielder's desire to play every game is rooted in something his father, Cecil, told him, many years ago. Prince remembers that he was 12 when this happened. He was playing in a game in Florida. It was the off-season for Cecil, then with the Yankees following his thunderous Tigers..." August 17

Detroit News "They knew Prince Fielder would hit for power and drive in runs — which he is doing. What the Tigers did not know, however, is that after 115 games, he would be hitting .310, higher than he's ever hit in the majors. And that he would reduce his strikeouts, from his career high, by nearly 50..." August 13

Detroit News "They knew Prince Fielder would hit for power and drive in runs — which he is doing. What the Tigers did not know, however, is after 114 games, he would be hitting .311, higher than he's ever hit in the majors. And that he would have reduced his strikeouts, from his career high, by nearly 50..." August 12

Detroit Free Press "When the Tigers struggle to produce runs, so much of the attention falls on the 5-9 hitters in the lineup. But if you look at the Tigers' poor production during this nine-game trip, another spot in the order jumps out, too -- cleanup. Before Wednesday night's series finale at Fenway Park,..." August 02

Detroit Free Press "The Pistons used to go through this in the 1980s. Arrive in New England and watch strange things unfold. The Tigers can relate. In late May, when the Tigers played at Fenway Park the first time this season, an umpire missed a crucial call and series of fluky bounces. The Tigers lost three of..." August 02

Detroit Free Press "Prince Fielder hit a chopper in the second inning that would've been an easy out for even the most defensively challenged third baseman in baseball. The problem for the Los Angeles Angels is that their third baseman, Alberto Callaspo, was playing in the shortstop hole. The strategy of..." July 20

Detroit Free Press "The Detroit Tigers have to be pleased with their results in the events leading up to Tuesday night's All-Star Game. On Sunday, at the All-Star Futures Game that featured many of baseball's top minor leaguers, 20-year-old third baseman Nick Castellanos got three hits, including a three-run..." July 11

Detroit News "Not this time. Chances are often good that if it looks like Justin Verlander, and throws as hard as Justin Verlander, it must be Justin Verlander. But that wasn't how it went for the Tigers ace who started for the American League in its 8-0 All-Star Game loss on Tuesday night in Kansas..." July 11

Detroit Free Press "R.A. Dickey's profound autobiography, "Wherever I Wind Up," deals almost entirely with his own experiences: learning the knuckleball, making peace with his demons, finally establishing himself in the majors with the Mets. He offers little comment on the many tremendous players he has seen in his..." July 10

New York Daily News "Robinson Cano failed to defend his Home Run Derby crown — and the Kansas City fans couldn't have been happier. Cano went homerless in the first round of the All-Star Monday showcase, one year after he won it with a record-setting 12 home runs in the final round in Phoenix. Detroit's Prince..." July 10

Detroit Free Press "Prince Fielder swings like a man who hates baseballs. He clubs them, really, and watching him in Monday's Home Run Derby created a chorus of oooohs as people waited to see in what faraway spot one of his blasts would land. Many of Fielder's homers were moon shots, some even getting momentarily..." July 10

Detroit News "Gerald Laird was hurting, but wasn't hurt. "I saw some stars at first," he said. "So I just lay on the ground until I felt OK to get up." When manager Jim Leyland went to where Laird was sprawled in the fourth inning, though, he thought he would have to do two things he didn't want to..." July 06

Detroit News "Three Tigers were named to the American League All-Star team Sunday. They are the three who were considered slam dunks to get there: Miguel Cabrera, Justin Verlander and Prince Fielder Austin Jackson didn't make it. And neither did Joaquin Benoit. They're not on the Final Man ballot,..." July 02

Dallas Morning News "Martin Perez probably didn't have the Major League debut he was expecting, going 2/3 of an inning, allowing an earned run and giving up two hits Wednesday night. The 21-year-old, who entered the season as the Rangers' top pitching prospect, opened an eighth inning that would see the Detroit..." June 28

Detroit Free Press "Prince Fielder has his greeting planned for Chicago Cubs manager Dale Sveum today. "Definitely he's going to get the Fielder bear hug," Fielder said. "He's a good friend of mine." Sveum and Fielder spent the previous six years together in Milwaukee -- Fielder as a power-hitting first baseman..." June 12

Detroit News "Justin Verlander didn't win Saturday — hasn't won in his last four starts — but he fared better than his buddy from back home in Virginia. That would be Sean Marshall. Both are from the Richmond area, played against each other growing up, so they had lunch Friday, talking about whatever..." June 10

Detroit News "The flailing continues and the frustration ratchets. The Tigers aren't just teasing right now. They're flat-out torturing. Once again, they couldn't make the tough plays or the simple plays, and were clutching in the clutch. This was another embarrassing collapse, a game they should've won..." May 24

Detroit Free Press "He laughs with a teammate and pulls on a pair of black shorts. It's nearly a quarter way through the season, and the Prince is feeling comfortable on his throne -- well, OK, his locker chair -- even if he and the Tigers haven't exactly set the world on fire. "It's just the same stuff in a..." May 20

Detroit Free Press "Prince Fielder took a hanging curveball from Yankees left-hander CC Sabathia in the fourth inning and cranked it into the second row of seats in rightfield at Yankee Stadium on Sunday. It was Fielder's first home run since hitting two against Boston at Comerica Park on April 7. The Tigers first..." April 30

Detroit Free Press "Behind a pair of big two-out RBIs from Prince Fielder against left-handed pitchers, the Tigers put themselves and Max Scherzer in position for a come-from-behind win over the Royals on Wednesday night. The Tigers took a one-run lead in the seventh, and their bullpen blanked Kansas City the..." April 19

Detroit News "Prince Fielder is paid handsomely to hit booming home runs. But Tigers owner Mike Ilitch chose in January to wager $214 million — that's a whole lot of pizza! — that Fielder will be much more than that, specifically the missing piece of the puzzle that finally puts the Tigers atop the baseball..." April 10

Detroit News "o quote what the late, great George Kell would have said: "This might just gonna be awesome." MC and the Hammer who follows him in the lineup put on quite a show Saturday — two home runs each for Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder off Josh Beckett — in the Tigers' 10-0 victory over the..." April 08

Detroit News "Before Prince Fielder had enough clout to earn a $214 million free-agent contract with the Tigers, he was a gregarious youngster who always found a way to surprise. Doctors told Fielder's mother, Stacey August, he would be 11 pounds at birth. Prince ended up 8. At 15 months, Prince..." April 04

Detroit News "Detroit Tigers merchandise is selling briskly after adding high-profile first baseman Prince Fielder to a roster that already includes American League Cy Young winner and Most Valuable Player Justin Verlander. The Tigers' slice of the business has grown 27 percent for the first three months of..." April 03

Detroit News "Consistent with his style, Drew Smyly was neither perfect nor dangerously imperfect during Monday's start for the Tigers. He was cool and competent. The 23-year-old left-hander, who last Sunday won a spot in the rotation, pitched 5.1 innings in an 11-8 victory over the Blue Jays at Marchant..." April 03

Detroit Free Press "If you spend any time with Prince Fielder, you start to wonder how anything could possibly go wrong -- with him, with the Tigers, with the human race. He has that kind of personality. He laughs, he makes other people laugh, he remembers names, he follows through on promises, and he just looks..." April 01

Detroit Free Press "And in his latest highly impressive plate appearance in this exhibition season, Prince Fielder didn't swing the bat. It happened with two out in the third inning Friday and runners at first and third. In a left-vs.-left matchup with the Mets' Johan Santana, Fielder took two strikes to fall..." March 17

Detroit News "Notes, thoughts, items from Week 2 of Tigers spring camp: Getting to know Prince Fielder . We knew him, sort of, but we really didn't. He was a kid when he last was in Detroit for any extended time. Now, the Tigers' new first baseman is a man. And, yes, a father. Apart from his hitting..." March 12

Washington Post "Saturday afternoon in Lakeland, Prince Fielder blasted balls out of Joker Marchant Stadium during batting practice, loped around the outfield with his bushy-haired son and joked with teammates. Fielder and the Detroit Tigers may still be in the feeling-out process of their long-term commitment,..." March 11

Detroit News "First game, first hit, first everything. Whatever's to come for the Tigers, good or bad, it began Friday with an ideal inning at Joker Marchant Stadium. Adjusting to a position switch that's caused immense attention, Miguel Cabrera looked quick while reacting to the only ball hit to him at..." March 03

Detroit News "I told you I was going to measure it — and I did. I said I'd give you its distance, the number of feet it traveled — and here's the number. As exact as we could make it. Prince Fielder's mammoth batting-practice blast, the longest measurable ball hit by a Tiger this spring, traveled 611..." March 01