Baseball season comes one step closer today as the Detroit Tigers welcome in the Philadelphia Phillies for the first Grapefruit League matchup of the 2025 season. Dan Dickerson will be on the call for the first Tigers radio network broadcast of the season at 1:05 p.m. ET from Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Florida.
Kenta Maeda will be the Tigers’ starting pitcher, though of course he’s unlikely to go more than two innings at this point in camp. Maeda spent a lot of the offseason trying to build himself up in advance of camp after coming in last year throwing 86-87 mph early on and rarely topping 91 mph during the season even after moving to the bullpen.