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http://www.freep.com/article/20140123/SPORTS02/301230096/detroit-tigers-max-scherzer
Max Scherzer: 'Nothing's pending' on contract extension with Detroit Tigers.
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http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...ing-season?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
Max Scherzer open to negotiating with Tigers, but not during season.
from the detnews

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/det...md=20140123&content_id=67021892&vkey=news_det
Max Scherzer wants to remain with Tigers for long haul.
Reigning Cy Young winner optimistic deal can be done this spring or after season.
from the Tigers official site
 
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Bruce Rondon's at the banquet tonight. He's lost, easily, 40-50 lbs. He looks like a different person.
 
http://www.freep.com/article/20140123/SPORTS02/301230118/detroit-tigers-notes-alex-avila
Detroit Tigers notes: Alex Avila not concerned about arbitration.
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Avila confident contract will be settled soon.
DETROIT -- The sight of Tigers catcher Alex Avila sitting in an arbitration hearing opposite his father, Tigers vice president/assistant GM Al Avila, sounds like an episode plot for a TV series. Don't count on it happening in real life, though.
The younger Avila sounded like he expects a settlement on a new contract for 2014 very soon.
"I don't think it'll go on too much longer," Alex Avila said Thursday at the Tigers' Winter Caravan media session at Comerica Park. "I don't expect [a hearing] to happen."
It was a surprise that the process has gotten this far. Avila was the only arbitration-eligible Tiger to exchange contract figures with the team, unable to reach an agreement by last week's deadline.
Avila's arbitration filing came in at $5.35 million. The Tigers filed for a $3.75 million contract. He said he knows how it looks but that it isn't anything to fret.
"As a player, when you go into it, you just prepare for every scenario," he said. "With the process that's in place, filing numbers just basically gives you more time to negotiate. To reach an agreement by that deadline would be nice, but sometimes it just doesn't happen. Luckily, we can still continue [to talk]."
He believes something could happen this week or next. That's basically their window, because a hearing would be scheduled sometime between Feb. 1-21.
from the Tigers official site
 
Tigers visit Whitecaps' fire-damaged ballpark.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- The Tigers schedule a trip to this part of the state every year on their Winter Caravan to support the West Michigan Whitecaps, their affiliate in their Class A Midwest League, and their charitable efforts. This time, however, the support has a new significance.

Thursday's visit was the first by the Tigers since a fire ravaged parts of the Whitecaps' stadium, Fifth Third Ballpark, earlier this month. Minor League operations director Dan Lunetta and player development director Dave Owen arrived ahead of the Tigers' bus Thursday morning to tour the park with Whitecaps officials and survey the damage.

"It makes me sad, to begin with, just because of our relationship with [CEO] Lew [Chamberlin] and [vice president] Jim [Jarecki] and the whole group," Owen said. "It's just like something's happened to the family. I'm just thankful that everything's going to be OK and we'll get it back and up and running."

Owen and Lunetta reported what they saw to Tigers president/general manager Dave Dombrowski, who arrived later on the caravan bus. Dombrowski had seen the news reports over the holidays and has kept in touch with Whitecaps officials.

"If there's ever a community, a group of owners, that will handle something like this as well as it possibly can, it's this group," Dombrowski said. "They're very resilient. They have positive attitudes. They have great community support. And they have our support, whatever we can do to help them."

The cleanup is already underway, Owen said. The goal is to have the ballpark ready to host games when the Midwest League season opens. The Whitecaps' home opener is April 8.

"Everything they've told us is that they're going to do everything they can," Owen said. "Obviously, you can't predict anything because you never know what the weather's going to do, but we will have baseball, and we're looking forward to it."

There's added significance to their schedule this season. The Whitecaps are slated to host this year's Midwest League All-Star Game on June 17.
from the Tigers official site
 
January 24 in Tigers and mlb history:

1913 - In a story in the New York Times, Detroit Tigers President Frank Navin blames the length of the games on the coaches' boxes. Navin, reacting to American League President Ban Johnson's complaint that too many games the previous season had taken two hours to play, says the boxes should be moved back so that the catcher can give the pitcher his signals more quickly. From where they are now, he said, the coaching players can detect the catcher's signals unless he takes a lot of time to hide them. Navin said this slow signalling is the reason for the longer games.

1939 - Eddie Collins, Willie Keeler and George Sisler are elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America.
Sisler set a major league season-record (later broken by Ichiro Suzuki) with 257 hits in 1920 and batted .420 in 1922 on his way to a .340 career batting average.
Collins batted an even .333 for his career and stole 744 bases as a member of four World Series Champions.
Keeler, who "hit 'em where they ain't", batted .341 and collected 2,932 hits.

1955 - In an effort to speed up the game, Major League Baseball announces a new rule which requires a pitcher to deliver the ball within 20 seconds after taking a pitching position.

1973 - Left-handed pitcher Warren Spahn is elected to the Hall of Fame by the BBWAA. Spahn, in his first year of eligibility, is named on 316 out of a possible 380 ballots. Spahn won a total of 363 games during a 21-year major league career.

2011: The Tigers trade P Armando Galarraga, who lost a perfect game due to umpire Mike Joyce's blown call on June 2nd, to the Diamondbacks in exchange for minor league Ps Ryan Robowski and Kevin Eichhorn.

2012: Rocked by the loss of DH Victor Martinez to an off-season injury last week, the Tigers react by signing the most prominent free agent remaining on the market 1B Prince Fielder. It takes a 9-year, $214 million contract to land the big slugger. The move is doubly surprising because Detroit was not rumored to be among the teams bidding for Prince, and because they already have one the game's premium first basemen, Miguel Cabrera, signed to a long-term deal.

Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Joe_Cobb
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cobbjo01.shtml
Joe Cobb 1918.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/smithru01.shtml
Rufus Smith 1927.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jay_Sborz
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sborzja01.shtml
Jay Sborz 2010.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Andy_Dirks
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dirksan01.shtml
Andy Dirks 2011-present.

Tigers players who passed away:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ralph_Young
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/y/youngra01.shtml
Ralph Young 1915-1921.

from Baseball Reference
 
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