There's an edge to Detroit Tigers right-hander Casey Mize as the competition intensifies for the final spot in the Opening Day starting rotation.

Spencer Torkelson got three hits and blasted homers to right field and left field. Riley Greene went 3-for-3 with a run and an RBI. Gleyber Torres swatted a two-run opposite field homer to right. Andrew Chafin pitched a quick and scoreless innings in his spring debut.

Casey Mize is using three different variations of his slider and he threw his splitter so hard on Sunday that Statcast’s pitch tracker nearly gave up trying to classify it. That was music to Mize’s ears.

It’s probably the biggest question left for the Detroit Tigers ahead of Opening Day. Who will be the No. 5 starter? On paper, it’s actually a four-man race for the final two spots. But it feels like Jackson Jobe is closer to a lock than a demotion,

Keider Montero needs to keep developing, but he could become more important than Kenta Maeda and Casey Mize to the Detroit Tigers in the 2025 season.

Three right-handed pitchers from the Detroit Tigers seem to be emerging as frontrunners for one spot: Kenta Maeda, Casey Mize and Keider Montero.

Max Clark, Kevin McGonigle and Josue Briceño made their spring debuts Friday night for the Detroit Tigers, which seemed so fitting and poetic.

Detroit Tigers right-hander Casey Mize, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2018 draft, is battling Kenta Maeda and Keider Montero for the fifth and final spot in the Opening Day starting rotation, with Jackson Jobe all but locked in as the fourth starter.

Max Clark, Kevin McGonigle and Josue Briceño made their spring debuts Friday night for the Detroit Tigers, which seemed so fitting and poetic.

The Detroit Tigers starter has had a great spring, and part of that could be thanks to his fastball gaining a lot of velocity compared to last year.

Torkelson hit a 93-mph four-seamer from Orioles starter Dean Kremer over the wall in right field in the second inning. Next time up, he got a splitter from Kremer up and over the plate and sent it 382 feet onto the berm in left.

Casey Mize was once where fellow Tigers starter Jackson Jobe is now, a top pitching prospect across baseball with all the ingredients for stardom. It wasn’t that long ago. "Certainly I’m familiar with where he’s at in his career,