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March 27 in Tigers and mlb history:

1879: Miller Huggins is born in Cincinnati, Ohio. A second baseman adept at getting on base, Huggins will lead the National League in walks four times, score 100 or more runs three times, and regularly collect 30 or more stolen bases and an on-base percentage near .400. He will start as a player-manager with the St. Louis Cardinals before heading to the New York Yankees in 1918. Huggins will lead the Yankees to six American League pennants and three World Series titles, and his "Murderers' Row" club, which will win 110 games before sweeping the 1927 World Series, will be considered one of the greatest teams in history. Huggins will be selected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1964.
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1886: The Cincinnati Red Stockings announce that the American Association pennant they won in 1882 will be flown at home games this season "for luck."

1890: The application of an all-black club made up of former Cuban Giants players is rejected by the Inter-State League.

1917: The Boston Red Sox beat the Brooklyn Robins, 11 - 2, in Hot Springs, Arkansas. For tomorrow's exhibition game in Memphis, Tennessee, players on both teams will sport numbers on their sleeves, the idea of Robins' owner Charles Ebbets. His reasoning is that fans in non-major league cities would be unfamiliar with the players.

1936: Hank Greenberg signed a contract with Detroit on this day in 1936, making him one of the game's highest-paid players.
And yet, it still proved to be a steal for the Tigers, as they locked in a franchise icon and future Hall of Famer.
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1938: White Sox shortstop Luke Appling, sliding into second base in an exhibition game against the Cubs, fractures his right leg in two places and will miss almost half the season. He will return on July 8th.

1948: Former slugger Hank Greenberg, who tormented the Cleveland Indians for most of his career as a member of the Detroit Tigers, is hired as the Indians' farm club director by Bill Veeck.
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1958: The Detroit Tigers traded Pete Wojey and $20,000 to the Cleveland Indians for Milt Bolling and Vito Valentinetti.

1964: The Los Angeles Angels returned Leo Marentette to the Detroit Tigers following previous purchase.

1965: The Chicago Cubs purchased Bill Faul from the Detroit Tigers.

1973: Veteran pitcher Jim Perry of the Minnesota Twins becomes the first player in Major League Baseball to approve of being traded under the new "ten and five" rule. The Twins send Perry to the Detroit Tigers for Danny Fife and cash considerations. Perry, a 24-game winner in 1970, will win 14 games for the Tigers this year.

1973: The Atlanta Braves release former 30-game winner Denny McLain, ending his career at the age of 28. In 1972, the Braves had acquired McLain from the Oakland Athletics in a straight-up swap for first baseman Orlando Cepeda.
McLain won the American League Cy Young Award in 1968 and 1969.
Denny McLain averaged 23 wins and 290 innings per season for the Detroit Tigers from 1966-1969.

1978: The Detroit Tigers released Vern Ruhle.

1984: The Houston Astros release J.R. Richard, ending his major league career. The hard-throwing Richard had been the Astros' top pitcher before suffering a stroke during the 1980 season, from which he never came back.

1986: Major League Baseball's Rules Committee votes to change the designated hitter rule for the World Series, allowing a DH to be used in all games played in the American League club's home park, but not in the National League's. Since 1976, the DH had been used in all games in even years.

1987: The New York Mets make one of the best trades in franchise history when they acquire pitcher David Cone from the Kansas City Royals for catcher Ed Hearn and two pitching prospects. Cone will blossom as one of the National League's better starting pitchers, posting a 20-3 record for the Mets in 1988, while Hearn's promising career will be ended by injuries.

1989: Sports Illustrated publishes a story about Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose's gambling activities. Rose will eventually agree to a lifetime ban from Major League Baseball as part of an agreement with Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.

1989: The Detroit Tigers released Dwayne Murphy.

1995: The National Labor Relations Board files for an injunction to restore previous work rules to the game, as part of the settlment of the 1994 strike.

1996: The Detroit Tigers released Ricky Trlicek.

1997: The Detroit Tigers released Jose Bautista.

2003: The Detroit Tigers released Bill Haselman.

2004: The Philadelphia Phillies purchased Pablo Ozuna from the Detroit Tigers.

2006: Two days after minor league umpires said they intend to strike, management's lawyer denies that unfair labor practices have been committed.

2007: The Detroit Tigers released Brandon Watson.

2012: The group led by former NBA star Magic Johnson and executive Stan Kasten emerges as the winner of the bidding process to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers from owner Frank McCourt under supervision of a bankruptcy court judge. The winning bid is estimated at $2 billion, the highest amount ever paid for a North American professional sports franchise; an additional payment of $150 million will secure the land around Dodger Stadium that McCourt originally wanted to keep for himself. The huge prize tag will allow McCourt to make hundreds of millions in profit, even after paying back the loans he took out to purchase the team for $430 million in 2004, and the $131 million owed his wife Jamie as part of a divorce settlement. The purchase must now be submitted to the bankruptcy court by April 6th, and the sale completed by April 30th.

2014: The Detroit Tigers released Wil Ledezma.

2015: The Detroit Tigers released Luke Putkonen.

2017: The announcement that the Oakland Raiders are moving to Las Vegas, NV puts an end to the last ballpark-sharing arrangement between a Major League Baseball team and an NFL franchise. The Oakland Athletics will now be the sole tenant at the O.co Coliseum, a situation that may make it easier to resolve the ballpark issues that have plagued the franchise for decades.

2018: Playing for the first time in the old stomping grounds his father, newly-minted Hall of Famer Vladimir Guerrero, at Stade Olympique in his birth city of Montr?al, QC, top Blue Jays prospect Vladimir Guerrero Jr. begins to build his own legend. He ends an exhibition game against the Cardinals by hitting a walk-off homer off Jack Flaherty with two outs in the 9th, breaking a scoreless tie, much to the delight of the 25,800 spectators present.

2022: 42-year-old Albert Pujols, the majors' active career leader in all sorts of offensive categories, signs a one-year contract for the Cardinals to finish his career where it all started back in 2001.

2023: The Detroit Tigers released Cesar Hernandez.
2023: The Detroit Tigers traded Carlos Guzman (minors) to the Chicago Cubs for Zach McKinstry.

Tigers players birthdays:

Mike Dalton 1991.

Tigers players and coaches who passed away:

Willie Jensen 1912.

Billy Consolo coach 1979-1992, 1995.

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Totally Tigers

Spring training is officially over. Although it is a time of experimentation and try-outs, results can also give us a little hint of things we may expect.
The Tigers finished with 20 wins, 9 losses and 4 ties. Overall, they finished 2nd (out of 15 teams) after the Baltimore Orioles in the Grapefruit League. They also ranked 2nd in runs scored and run differential.
In 2023, they finished 2 games under .500 in 11th place (out of 15 teams). They ranked 13th in (negative) run differential.

There was more competition – legitimate competition – for a number of roster spots. The majority of the starting rotation is new and the bullpen has had significant changes. Positionally, there are 3 new infielders and 1 outfielder. Four others have graduated from rookie status into more experienced roles.
As we await Thursday’s Opening Day, how are you feeling about what you’ve seen this spring?
How many players impressed you? Disappointed you?
Did you see noticeable improvements in play? At the plate?
Does this appear to be a team that has finally left the rebuilding stage and is ready to compete?
How happy are you about the overall performance of this team over the past 6 weeks?
Please grade this team based upon what you’ve seen, heard and read about the team’s performance during the 2024 spring training season.

What are your impressions of this new roster based upon what you've seen during spring training?

1. Very impressed with the majority of the roster.

2. The team is better than I thought they would be.

3. There's a lotta good, but also a lotta holes still.

4. My impressions vary from day to day.

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