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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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WATERCOOLER WEDNESDAY.
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.

VOTE
 
The good, the bad, & the ugly on the Detroit Tigers 2024 season.
The Detroit Tigers are about to kick off the 2024 season. As they get ready for another 162-game sprint, here's the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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Episode 078:2024 Detroit Tigers Season Preview. 55 minutes.
Chrystal O'Keefe of South Side Sox is our guest as she previews the Chicago White Sox's 2024 season and the guys discuss and breakdown the 2024 Detroit Tigers 2024 roster and their chances at the postseason.
 
March 28 in Tigers and mlb history:

1875: Jimmy Barrett born in Athol, Mass. Tigers outfielder 1901-05. In 1904, Barrett became the first major league player to play in 162 games in one season, when the Tigers had a 154-game schedule but 10 ties. Was replaced by Ty Cobb.

1901: Philadelphia Phillies owner John Rogers files for an injunction prohibiting Nap Lajoie, Bill Bernhard, and Chick Fraser from playing for any other team - the most serious legal test of the reserve clause to date.

1918: International League owners vote 6-2 to disband the league. The two teams voting to continue play are Richmond and Newark. Despite the apparent dissolution of the league, a reborn IL will indeed play in 1918 and beyond.

1931: Ban Johnson dies in St. Louis, Missouri, at the age of 67. Johnson served as the first president of the American League, guiding the "junior circuit" until 1927. He will be elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1937.

1937: Trying to see if a new "dead ball" is better than the existing one, the new sphere is tried in a game between the Boston Red Sox and the Washington Senators. The Sox outslug the Nats, 13 - 12, as Joe Cronin drives in six runs. Last week, the ball was used in a game between the New York Giants and Boston Bees with much the same result. On April 12th, the Chicago White Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates will test the new ball, with the Sox winning, 9 - 6, though the longest hit is a double.

1942: In the midst of his military service during World War II, Hank Greenberg makes an appearance for the MacDill Field Fliers in an exhibition in Tampa. He hits a triple on the first pitch he sees.

1946: The Detroit Tigers released Russ Kerns.
1946: The Detroit Tigers released Milt Welch.

1947: Second baseman Johnny Evers dies in Albany, New York, at the age of 65. Known as "the Crab," Evers won the National League MVP Award in 1914 and stole 324 bases over an 18-year career. In 1946, Evers was elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee.

1958: Slugger Chuck Klein dies in Indianapolis, Indiana, at the age of 53. Klein batted .320 with 300 home runs and 1201 RBI over a 17-year career. His most productive season came in 1933, when he won the National League Triple Crown. Klein will be elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1980.

1961: In their first meeting since Pittsburgh's dramatic World Series win over New York, the Bucs, behind would-be World Series goat Bob Friend, beat up the banged-up Bombers, 9 - 2. The game's first run comes in the bottom of the 2nd on Roberto Clemente's bases-empty bomb over the left-field fence. Pittsburgh goes up 3 - 0 in the 3rd on Dick Stuart's two-run shot, likewise to left field. By the 7th, the Bucs have built their lead to 8 - 0 before New York can push across its initial tally.

1976: Media sources report a potential blockbuster trade between the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers which involves two future Hall of Fame pitchers. According to the rumor, the deal will send Tom Seaver to the Dodgers in exchange for Don Sutton. Mets fans respond negatively to the proposed deal, perhaps influencing management to call off the trade. Seaver will remain with the Mets until 1977, when he is traded to the Cincinnati Reds, in a trade which will be universally rued by Mets fans.

1977: The Detroit Tigers released Marv Lane.

1982: The Detroit Tigers released George Cappuzzello.

1983: The Detroit Tigers purchased Keith Comstock from the Oakland Athletics.

1988: The Detroit Tigers traded Karl Best to the Minnesota Twins for Don Schulze.

1990: A plan to allow starting pitchers to earn victories with only three innings pitched (because of the abbreviated spring training period) is scrapped, but teams will be allowed to open the regular season with 27-man rosters instead of the allowed maximum of 25.

1994: The Detroit Tigers released Skeeter Barnes.

1996: Kirby Puckett is taken to the Ft. Myers Hospital after he awakes with his vision affected by a career-threatening malady. He has a black dot in front of his left eye and his vision is diagnosed as 20/200. Puckett, who hit .360 in spring training, will undergo surgery on April 17th.

1999: The Baltimore Orioles make the first visit to Cuba by major leaguers since 1959, and defeat a team of Cuban amateurs by a score of 3 - 2 in 11 innings. Pitcher Jose Contreras hurls eight innings of two-hit, 10-strikeout ball in relief for the Cubans, while catcher Charles Johnson hits a two-run home run and DH Harold Baines drives in the winning run for the Orioles. The two teams will play a rematch at Camden Yards in Baltimore on May 3rd.

2002: The Detroit Tigers released Melvin Nieves.
2002: The Detroit Tigers released Juan Sosa.

2003: Three days prior to Opening Day, the YES Network claims Cablevision has pulled out of a proposed deal signed 17 days ago which would have provided televised New York Yankees games to nearly three million cable subscribers in the New York City metropolitan area. According to a YES press release, the giant cable television company failed to sign a finalized version of the hand-written document that both parties exchanged on March 12th, but Cablevision president, James L. Dolan, said when YES sent him a revised typewritten draft on two days later, the document contained alterations that he found unacceptable.

2003: The Detroit Tigers released Robinson Cancel.
2003:The Detroit Tigers released Luke Carlin.
2003: The Detroit Tigers released Jesse Carlson.
2003: The Detroit Tigers released Damion Easley.
2003: The Tampa Bay Devil Rays selected George Lombard off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

2008: The Seattle Mariners sent Jeff Frazier to the Detroit Tigers as part of a conditional deal.
2008: The Detroit Tigers released Jason Perry.

2014: Two-time defending American League MVP Miguel Cabrera signs an eight-year contract extension with the Tigers. Including the two years remaining on his present contract, the deal is worth $292 million, making it the biggest in major league history.
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It surpasses the ten-year extension signed by Alex Rodriguez in 2006 for $275 million. In fact Rodriguez had held the record since signing as a free agent with the Texas Rangers for $252 million in 2001.
The huge deal makes the six-year contract for $144.6 million that Angels OF Mike Trout also signs today seem like an anecdote.

2014: Major League Baseball and the Players Association agree to a number of changes that toughen the major leagues' PED policy. The penalty for a first offense goes from 50 to 80 games, suspended players will no longer be eligible for the postseason or for full a postseason share, while the number of random tests will be significantly increased.

2016: The Detroit Tigers released Casey McGehee.
2016: The Detroit Tigers released Bobby Parnell.

2017: The Detroit Tigers released Daniel Muno.

2018: The Detroit Tigers signed Jairo Labourt as a free agent.
2018: The Detroit Tigers released Enrique Burgos.
2018: The Detroit Tigers released Derek Norris.

2019: It's Opening Day across Major League Baseball as all 30 teams are active, one week after a preliminary two-game opening series in Japan. A record number of homers are hit today - 48 across the majors. Leading the charge are the Dodgers, who hit an opening day record 8 long balls in their 12 - 5 win over the Diamondbacks.

2019: The Detroit Tigers released Louis Coleman.

2019: Jordan Zimmerman pitches 6+ perfect innings, and Christin Stewart hits a 2-run home run in the 10th to give the #Tigers a 2-0 win in Toronto on Opening Day.

Tigers players birthdays:

Jimmy Barrett 1901-1905.

Craig Paquette 2002-2003.

Tigers players who passed away:

Donie Bush 1908-1921.

Johnny Neun 1925-1928.

Don Ross 1938, 1942-1945.

Gus Triandos 1963.

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March 28, 1970: In this first (and last?) "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial All-Star Baseball Classic", solo home runs by Ron Fairly of Montreal and Ron Santo of the Chicago Cubs, plus a three-run 8th-inning brings the East a 5 - 1 victory over the West. A crowd of 31,694 watches the charity game in Dodger Stadium. Proceeds go to the late Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a memorial center planned for Atlanta.

For this initial charity game, former New York Yankees great Joe DiMaggio manages the East, and ex-Dodger Roy Campanella, confined to a wheelchair since a 1958 auto accident, directs the fortunes of the West. Jim "Mudcat" Grant of Oakland sings the National Anthem in the pre-game program, and then becomes the victim of a four-hit uprising in the 8th inning that insures the outcome.

Al Kaline of Detroit beats out an infield hit to open the frame and moves to second as Tommie Agee drives Hank Aaron to the left field wall. Kaline races home on Lou Brock's double to left. Brock scores on Roberto Clemente's double and Clemente comes home on Ken McMullen's single.
 
BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE.
Totally Tigers
 
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