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Gene Lamont has joined the Royals as a special assistant to general manager Dayton Moore.
Lamont was the first-ever draft pick of the Tigers in 1965, played parts of 5 seasons with the Tigers in the 70s, and spent the last 12 seasons as Tigers coach.
 
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...ontracts-shane-greene-alex-wilson/1029074001/
Detroit Tigers agree to deals with relievers Shane Greene, Alex Wilson.
Freep

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sp...tigers-avoid-arbitration-195m-deal/109397562/
Shane Greene, Tigers avoid arbitration with $1.95M deal.
Detnews

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/shane-greene-alex-wilson-avoid-arbitration/c-264616508
Greene, Wilson agree to 1-year deals.
Remaining arb-eligible players Castellanos, Iglesias yet to sign.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2018/1...e-alex-wilson-contract-details-detroit-tigers
Shane Greene, Alex Wilson agree on 1-year contracts with Tigers.
BYBTB

https://detroitsportsnation.com/det...ilson-3-others-still-unsigned/01-2018/101129/
Detroit Tigers avoid arbitration with Shane Greene and Alex Wilson, 2 others still unsigned.
DSN
 
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The Tigers' 16-year stretch of avoiding salary arbitration hearings is in jeopardy: They could not settle with shortstop Jose Iglesias.
Jose Iglesias, Tigers: Iglesias filed at $6.8MM, Detroit countered at $5.6MM

http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2018/01/tigers_arbitration_jose_iglesi.html#incart_river_index
Tigers avoid arbitration with 3 players, but Jose Iglesias still unsigned.
Mlive

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...ers-arbitration-signings-iglesias/1030641001/
Detroit Tigers avoid arbitration with 3, but no deal yet with Iglesias.
Freep

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/tigers-avoid-arbitration-with-three-players/c-264616508
Tigers agree with Castellanos, Greene, Wilson.
Iglesias only arbitration-eligible Tigers player yet to sign.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2018/1...as-castellanos-jose-iglesias-contract-details
Tigers avoid arbitration with Castellanos, but reach stalemate with Iglesias.
The sides are $1.2 million apart as arbitration looms.
BYBTB
 
January 13 in Tigers and mlb history:

1922: Former Chicago White Sox star Buck Weaver applies for reinstatement to baseball. Weaver, one of the eight "Black Sox" players banned for their involvement in throwing the 1919 World Series, is turned down by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis.

1900: The Cincinnati Reds returned Kid Elberfeld to Detroit (American) as part of a conditional deal.
1900: The Cincinnati Reds returned Emil Frisk to Detroit (American) following previous purchase.

1958: New York Senator Kenneth Keating proposes a ban within 100-mile radius on telecasts into minor league territories.

1972: Former umpire, now housewife, Bernice Gera wins her lawsuit against Organized Baseball, initiated on March 15, 1971.
Gera is slated to umpire in the New York-Pennsylvania League starting in June. She will umpire just one game, making her point before deciding to call it quits.

1978: Hall of Fame manager Joe McCarthy dies in Buffalo, New York, at the age of 90. McCarthy was the first manager to win pennants with both National and American League teams, won nine league titles overall and seven World Series championships.

1981: The Detroit Tigers drafted Bob Melvin in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 1981 amateur draft (January Secondary).
1981: The Detroit Tigers drafted Mike Sharperson in the 4th round of the 1981 amateur draft (January), but was not signed.

1982: Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson win election to the Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility. Aaron established a major league record with 755 home runs, while Robinson led the Baltimore Orioles to two World Championships and was named Most Valuable Player in both the American and National Leagues.
Aaron falls nine votes shy of becoming the first-ever unanimous selection, and his 97.8 election percentage is second only to Ty Cobb's 98.2 percent in the inaugural 1936 election. Robinson was also the first African-American manager in major league history.

1989: The Detroit Tigers signed Doyle Alexander as a free agent.

1991: While playing for the Oakland Raiders of the NFL, Bo Jackson suffers a career-threatening injury in an American Football Conference playoff game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Originally diagnosed as a pulled thigh muscle, the Kansas City Royals learn of the severity of the injury just as spring begins. They will release Jackson shortly after, fearing that his baseball career is over, and he'll sign with the Chicago White Sox.

1994: The Detroit Tigers signed Junior Felix as a free agent.

1995: Baseball's executive council approves the use of replacement players for spring training and regular season games. With the Players' Association on strike, the owners say they will look to retired players, minor leaguers and amateurs to fill out their rosters.

2004: The Detroit Tigers signed Ben Petrick as a free agent.

2005: Marvin Miller, the former executive-director of the Major League Baseball Players Association who helped to forever change the nature of the player-owner relationship, receives the "Fuchs Award" from the Boston Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America. The honor, named in for Judge Emil Fuchs who owned the hometown Boston Braves from 1929 through 1935, is given for "long and meritorious service to baseball."

2005: Under the watchful eye of national lawmakers, Major League Baseball and the Players' Association agree in principle on a stricter steroid testing policy. The new program will randomly test players year-round, with first-time offenders suspended for 10 days and a fourth violation resulting in a one year ban for the offending player. The punishments will later be increased significantly.

2009: The Detroit Tigers signed Fu-Te Ni as a free agent.

2010: The Detroit Tigers signed Kory Casto as a free agent.
2010: The Detroit Tigers signed Jason Waddell as a free agent.

2014: Alex Rodriguez, called A-roid by baseball fans everywhere, files a lawsuit in federal court against Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association seeking to overturn the 162-game suspension handed two days earlier by arbitrator Fredric Horowitz. He will drop the suit shortly and accept to serve his suspension.

2018: Umpire Doug Harvey, a veteran of 13 seasons in the National League and over 4,600 major league games, dies at age 87. Considered by many as the best umpire ever and nicknamed "God" for his infallibility, he was enshrined in the Hall of Fame in 2010.

Tigers players and coaches birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Les_Cain
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cainle01.shtml
Les Cain 1968, 1970-1972.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/foorji01.shtml
Jim Foor 1971-1972.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/milleor01.shtml
Orlando Miller 1997.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Gene_Roof
Gene Roof coach 2002-2005.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/capeljo01.shtml
Jose Capellan 2007.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Kid_Elberfeld
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/elberki01.shtml
Kid Elberfeld 1901-1903.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/speerki01.shtml
Kid Speer 1909.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kochebr01.shtml
Brad Kocher 1912.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gelbech01.shtml
Charlie Gelbert 1937.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Tom_Morgan
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/morgato01.shtml
Tom Morgan 1958-1960.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Johnny_Podres
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/podrejo01.shtml
Johnny Podres 1966-1967.

from Baseball Reference
 
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January 14 in Tigers and mlb history:

1909: The Detroit Tigers purchased George Moriarty from the New York Highlanders.

1932: Babe Ruth rejects a Yankees offer of $70,000, as the major leagues vow to cut salaries by $1 million.

1940: Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis gives free agency to 91 Detroit Tigers players and farm hands.
Citing cover-ups of the movement of players within its organization, Landis hands freedom to Roy Cullenbine, Benny McCoy, Dutch Dietz, and Steve Rachunok from the parent roster and orders $47,250 paid as compensation to 14 players.
Ed Albosta of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Roy Cullenbine of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Guy Curtright of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Dutch Dietz of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Cal Dorsett of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Al Gardella of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Danny Gardella of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Paul Gillespie of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Buddy Hancken of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Jim Hickey of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Johnny Johnson of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Dale Jones of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Pat McLaughlin of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
George Metkovich of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Bill Mueller of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Dee Phillips of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Steve Rachunok of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Johnny Sain of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Bryan Stephens of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Tommy Tatum of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Ed Weiland of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Benny McCoy of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

Johnny Sain is one of the 23 players who will later make it to the major leagues. Landis's edict also nullifies a deal that would have brought the Philadelphia Athletics' Wally Moses to the Tigers.
Both players will later become coaches for the Tigers in the late 1960's on the 1968 World Series Champion Tigers team.

1947: The Detroit Tigers purchased Saul Rogovin from the Washington Senators.

1954: Former Yankees outfielder Joe DiMaggio marries actress Marilyn Monroe.

1963: In a blockbuster seven-player trade, the Chicago White Sox send shortstop Luis Aparicio and outfielder Al Smith to the Baltimore Orioles for pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm, outfielder Dave Nicholson, third baseman Pete Ward and shortstop Ron Hansen. In the upcoming season, Wilhelm will save 21 games while Aparicio will lead the American League in stolen bases with 40.

1981: Frank Robinson is named manager of the San Francisco Giants. In 1975, Robinson became the first African-American manager in major league history when he was hired by the Cleveland Indians.

1985: The Detroit Tigers released John Martin.

1986: The Detroit Tigers drafted Jerry Nielsen in the 1st round (26th pick) of the 1986 amateur draft (January Secondary), but was not signed.
1986: The Detroit Tigers drafted Kevin Higgins in the 5th round of the 1986 amateur draft (January), but was not signed.
1986: The Detroit Tigers drafted Wayne Housie in the 8th round of the 1986 amateur draft (January).

1987: Catfish Hunter and Billy Williams are elected to the Hall of Fame by the BBWAA.

1991: The Detroit Tigers signed John Cerutti as a free agent.

1999: The Detroit Tigers traded Mark Persails (minors), Carlos Villalobos (minors), Paul Bako, Dean Crow and Brian Powell to the Houston Astros for Brad Ausmus and C.J. Nitkowski.

2004: The Detroit Tigers signed Bobby Estalella as a free agent.
2004: The Detroit Tigers signed Greg Norton as a free agent.

2006: Dontrelle Willis, Mark Teixeira and Alfonso Soriano are among the 100 players who file for salary arbitration, the often acrimonious negotiating process that rankles baseball management every winter. Mark Prior, Josh Beckett, Brad Lidge, Adam Dunn, Morgan Ensberg, Brian Roberts, Travis Lee and Scot Shields are some of the other players who file before the deadline. Last year, players in arbitration averaged a 123 percent salary increase.

2010: The Tigers agree to terms with free agent reliever Jose Valverde, who played for the Houston Astros last season. As a result of the signing, the Tigers will give up their first pick in the 2010 amateur draft, the first time the team has surrendered its top pick since signing Rob Deer as a free agent in 1991.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/johnske01.shtml
Ken Johnson 1952.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/campbda01.shtml
Dave Campbell 1967-1969.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Mike_Pelfrey
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pelfrmi01.shtml
Mike Pelfrey 2016.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/aybarer01.shtml
Erick Aybar 2016.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hardy_Richardson
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/richaha01.shtml
Hardy Richardson Detroit Wolverines 1886-1888.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/vicoge01.shtml
Sam Vico 1948-1949.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mortobu01.shtml
Bubba Morton 1961-1963.

from Baseball Reference
 
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Southpaw James Russell is headed to the Tigers organization on a non-roster arrangement. Whether he?ll receive a camp invite isn?t known in this case (or the others). The 32-year-old is long removed from his days as a solid bullpen presence. He last appeared in the majors, rather briefly, in 2016. Though he only threw 31 professional innings last year, all in the Mexican League, they were in a starting role. He worked to a 2.03 ERA with 7.8 K/9 and 1.7 BB/9.
MLBTR
 
A Twitter follower shared a not-uncommon thought when I recently compared Ryne Sandberg?s and Lou Whitaker?s total-base numbers. Pointing out that the latter played in roughly 200 more games, he opined that ?If were making the case for him, not sure if a career-additive stat like total bases does that.?

I understand what he was saying, but in terms of the Hall of Fame, there?s a flaw in the logic. If nothing else, it shortchanges longevity, which in my opinion adds to, rather than subtracts from, a player?s worthiness. It takes a lot of talent to play in the big leagues, and continuing to perform at a level that keeps you there ? particularly in your mid 30s and beyond ? is extremely challenging. In this particular case, Whitaker, who played his last game at 38, simply aged better than Sandberg, who played his last game at 37.

Other notable players have extended their careers even further beyond their primes, with Pete Rose, Omar Vizquel, and Carl Yastrzemski being classic examples. Should they be penalized for hanging on, and thereby increasing their counting stats while harming their rate stats? I?m of the belief that they shouldn?t.

Fangraphs
 
Meanwhile, Bill Freehan (11) and Lance Parrish (8) combined for 19 All-Star berths, and neither got as much as 4% support in Hall of Fame balloting. Catchers are not only underrepresented in Cooperstown, they are seemingly held to an unreasonable statistical standard.

Freehan has the same adjusted OPS (112) as Craig Biggio and Cal Ripken. Parrish has the same adjusted OPS (106) as Johnny Evers and Ivan Rodriguez. Does this make them Hall worthy? No, but once you add in their All-Star achievements and the intangibles that go with their position ? catcher value will always be hard to quantify ? they have a damn good argument. And don?t get me started on Ted Simmons?

?who Jerry Crasnick, upon second thought, feels is deserving of a plaque. The accomplished ESPN columnist didn?t include ?Simba? when he contributed to my December Writers? View column asking which of the people on the Modern Era ballot belongs in the Hall of Fame ? and he regrets having not done so. In an exchange we had a few weeks later, Crasnick told me that he ?probably whiffed on Ted Simmons; I do think he belongs, and I would answer that question differently if I had another chance to respond.?

Fangraphs
 
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