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https://www.blessyouboys.com/2018/2...rs-tampa-bay-rays-corey-dickerson-eric-hosmer
Bless You Boys Tigers Blog Podcast Episode 9: The Rays sell and all Ashley?s teams are bad now. 56 minutes.
The editorial staff of Bless You Boys breaks down the week in baseball.

Doom is all around us. The Rays offer no relief. Meanwhile Ron Gardenhire and his folksy ways are already beginning to grow on us, to our mild irritation.

Pre-show gnashing over a devastating series of Rays trades that rocked Ashley?s baseball word.

What are the Rays doing, is Florida doomed, and can the Tigers profit via Corey Dickerson?

Gardy is buddies with everyone, while Chris Bosio is full of ideas for his pitching staff.

J.D. Martinez lands in Boston as expected, while the Padres sign Eric Hosmer to an 8 year deal for some reason. This is followed by much disbelief at what a bizarre offseason this has been and how desperate we are for real, if meaningless, games to begin.
 
February 23 in Tigers and mlb history:

1918: Barney Dreyfuss of the Rules Committee launches a campaign to ban the spitter. He will succeed next year.

1934: Replacing skipper Max Carey, Brooklyn coach Casey Stengel signs a two-year deal to manage the Dodgers.

1940: The A's waive Lynn Nelson to Detroit. Nelson was the A's top winner in 1939 with 10 victories, but he'll go 1-1 with Detroit before bowing out.

1976: Major League owners announce that spring training will not open until a new labor contract is agreed upon.

1977: The Detroit Tigers signed Tito Fuentes as a free agent.

1978: Tigers sell pitcher Steve Grilli to Blue Jays.

1988: A committee of Chicago aldermen vote 7-2 to allow the Cubs to install lights and play up to 18 night games a year at Wrigley Field. The Cubs had feared losing the 1990 All-Star Game, as well as future playoff and World Series games, if lights were not installed.

1990: Despite the owners dropping their arbitration and minimum salary proposals, spring training camps remain closed.

1996: The Rules Committee announces that the strike zone will be larger, dropping it from the top of the knees to the hollow below the knees. The change comes out of a series of recommendations to help speed up play.

2010: Major League Baseball announces that it will begin testing minor leaguers for human growth hormone this season. The illegal performance-enhancing substance has long been considered undetectable by conventional doping tests, but its presence has recently been isolated through a blood test, which will be used for this purpose.

2012: Ryan Braun becomes the first major league player to successfully appeal a positive PED test when arbitrator Shyam Das rules in his favor with regard to a positive test performed during the 2011 postseason. The test showed a testosterone level so high as to be almost unimaginable without outside interference. The three-man pannel chaired by Das rules that the fact that proper protocol was not followed in collecting and storing the sample prior to testing, makes it impossible to be certain that it has not been subject to tampering at some point. Braun had proclaimed his innocence all along, and now no longer faces a 50-game suspension.

2012: The group featuring former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre announces it is bowing out of the bidding for the team because current owner Frank McCourt will not include the parking lots outside Dodger Stadium in the package. McCourt built his now-threatened fortune by operating parking lots in large cities. Torre's group states that by keeping control of this key resource, McCourt will make it impossible for the winning bidders to manage the team's assets effectively. The group, which was among the favorites to emerge as the new owners at the end of the court-supervised process, leaves the door open to a re-engagement if the terms of the sale are changed to include the disputed lots.

2016: The Detroit Tigers signed Casey McGehee as a free agent.

2018: The first Cactus League and Grapefruit League games of spring training are played today with Major League Baseball paying tribute to the victims of the horrific school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL as all players wear special caps. Proceeds from the sale of this autographed memorabilia will go to a fund dedicated to the victims. Some teams also go further by inviting students and school personnel to meet players and perform various roles at the games as a show of solidarity.

2018: The Detroit Tigers signed Louis Coleman as a free agent.
2018: The Detroit Tigers signed Francisco Liriano as a free agent.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/johnsro02.shtml?redir
Roy Johnson 1929-1932.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/shelbjo01.shtml
John Shelby 1990-1991.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/whitero02.shtml
Rondell White 2004-2005.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/crockda01.shtml
Davey Crockett 1901.

from Baseball Reference
 
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