| Date | News |
| 5/18/25 | Dylan Smith is torching batters at Erie and a Tigers bullpen takes notice. Toss into a pitcher's 2025 season a fresh mix of good health and new status as a wipeout reliever and you have your basic Tigers farm team turnaround story. Dylan Smith has been exceptional during a spring when Tigers pitching throughout the farm tiers has been, on balance, OK, if not yet perhaps on a par with what hitters have been doing. Smith is now a bullpen blowtorch at Double A Erie, where in 12 games through Saturday he had a 1.80 ERA and 0.80 WHIP, all the product of 20 innings, nine hits, seven walks and 27 strikeouts. “He's been outstanding,” Erie manager Andrew Graham said last week. Source: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tiger... |
| 5/26/24 | Henning: Max Clark, Kevin McGonigle are showing the Tigers skills aplenty. A man who levels about talent is Andrew Graham, manager of the Single-A Lakeland Flying Tigers in the Tigers minor-league archipelago. It was the straight-speaking Graham who was called upon Saturday. Much-needed was appraisal of two Tigers uber-talents, Max Clark and Kevin McGonigle, who were taken 1-2 by the Tigers in last July's MLB Draft and who have been among Lakeland's best and brightest so far this season. Source: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tiger... |
| 9/10/23 | Around the Tigers' farm: Checking in on new additions at Lakeland. Hand it to those minor-league managers, for whichever MLB team they toil. The Tigers have had their best farm seasons, collectively, in years at the various minor-league levels, with playoffs ahead for Double-A Erie, and also low-Single A Lakeland, where Andrew Graham surely deserves some brand of tribute. Graham steered the Flying Tigers to a second-half record of 44-22 despite having the ninth-worst pitching in the 10-team Florida State League. It didn't help that Lakeland entered Sunday's regular-season finale with a .238 team batting average. Source: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tiger... |
| 8/13/23 | Around Tigers' farm: Cristian Santana's tough 2023 season gives way to Lakeland turnaround. On any list of 2023 Tigers farm mysteries there was, somewhere near the top, Cristian Santana. Here was a shortstop for Single-A Lakeland, albeit 19 years old, who came into the season ranked as the 11th-best Tigers prospect. Santana hit .270 in July with four home runs. “There were some mental and mechanical flaws that were highlighted when you're young and struggling, as he was earlier in the season,” said Andrew Graham, who is Lakeland's manager. Source: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tiger... |
| 5/22/22 | Tigers prospect Jackson Jobe's job at Lakeland: A steady path to Detroit. We’re working to make him a better pitcher,” said Andrew Graham, the Flying Tigers manager who has seen his share of kids filter through the Tigers system, and who acknowledges Jobe has extraordinary raw skills. A kid like that didn’t know in high school he needed to know how to pitch. He could throw that fastball anywhere in the zone. Source: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tiger... |