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The Tigers have interest in free agent starter Yovani Gallardo, Buster Olney of ESPN tweets. The Tigers don?t seem likely to be serious bidders for top starting pitchers, but they could bid for players in Gallardo?s tier as they attempt to fill in their rotation around Justin Verlander, Anibal Sanchez and Daniel Norris.
 
November 15 in Tigers and mlb history:

1945 - The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of Fame. A runoff election is formulated as a way to qualify more players for selection, but it fails to meet its objective as no one reaches the 75 percent requirement in the runoff.

1967 - Future Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox is the overwhelming selection as American League MVP. He receives all but one first place vote in the balloting, the other vote going to Minnesota's Cesar Tovar. Yastrzemski, who led the AL in batting average (.327), home runs (44) and RBI (121), will be the last major leaguer to win the Triple Crown in the 20th Century.

2005: After months of deadlock, leaders of Major League Baseball and the players union reach an agreement to clean up a performance-enhancing drug scandal that has tarnished the nation's pastime and left lawmakers worried about young athletes imitating the wrong role models. It will require baseball players to submit to several drug tests each year, during and between seasons, and will impose lengthy suspensions for steroid and amphetamine use. Repeat offenders can be banned for life. The agreement, which must be ratified by both the players and baseball owners, is similar to a proposal offered earlier this year by commissioner Bud Selig.

2011: Detroit's Justin Verlander is the unanimous winner of the 2011 American League Cy Young Award. Verlander won the Pitching Triple Crown by leading the AL in wins with a 24-5 record, in ERA at 2.40 and in strikeouts with 250. He also threw his second career no-hitter on May 7th.

2012: In what is portrayed as a classic dispute between defenders of traditional statistics and supporters of sabermetrics, 3B Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers wins the 2012 American League Most Valuable Player Award over Rookie of the Year OF Mike Trout of the Angels by a score of 362 to 281. Cabrera was the first winner of a Triple Crown in 45 years, but Trout finished ahead of him in more advanced measures of a player's value.

Tigers players birthdays:

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Hap Ward 1912.

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Babe Ellison 1916-1920.

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Bob Farley 1962.

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Todd Steverson 1995.

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Ryan Jackson 2001-2002.

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Duane Below 2011-2012.

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According to StatCorner, Detroit?s James McCann ranked as the poorest pitch framer in either league this year. Tigers GM Al Avila was likely aware of that fact when I brought up framing this week in Boca Raton. At worst, he knows the rookie catcher needs to improve that facet of his game.

?That?s one aspect we?re working on with McCann,? said Avila. ?We feel he improved over this past year. We?ve made it a very important factor throughout our system. We?re developing the awareness to make sure our catchers are doing the best they can as far as pitch framing is concerned. We?re using a lot of video to show them the difference when they do it right and do it wrong, the consequences of balls and strikes.?
 
Al Avila produced a wry smile ? a reaction of resignation ? when I brought up Detroit?s inability to build a dependable bullpen in recent seasons. He proceeded to give a meandering explanation for the both the past and the future.

Avila opined that the ?least risky? way to build a bullpen is internally. Ideally, you ?develop your own guys and ease them in, in a less stressful role, then put them into the fire.? You augment by ?adding a player here or there? via free agency or trade to round out your relief staff.

There are pitfalls to the best-laid plans, as Avila knows all too well.

?If you draft somebody, or sign somebody internationally, and he comes up through the system and you?re counting on him to take over somebody?s role, and it?s cost-efficient for the organization, and he gets injured, or for some reason doesn?t perform to expectations, that puts a whole monkey wrench in your organization.? said Avila. ?It creates a hole and you have to go out and get somebody else.?

All too often, ?somebody else? has ended up being a failed fireman. As Avila aptly put it, ?There is more than one way to put a bullpen together, and sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn?t.?

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I asked Dave Dombrowski the same question. This was a few days before the former Tigers GM ? now the man-in-charge in Boston ? traded for Craig Kimbrel. (It?s easy to imagine an evil-doer sticking pins into a Kimbrel voodoo doll in the not-too-distant future, isn?t it?)

?At times, they just haven?t performed well,? Dombrowski said of his Motown maladies. ?We had some injury factors that have been tough to overcome. We?ve counted on a lot of young guys out there and sometimes they haven?t come through for us.?

Asked if he?s rethought his bullpen-building strategy, Dombrowski said he?s ?rethinking all the time,? but won?t ?get into what I?m rethinking.? He did say he?d be using ?a combination of our scouting and the analytic aspect of it,? and that Brian Bannister would be heavily involved in the latter.

Now it?s up to Kimbrel to exorcise the Dombrowki bullpen curse.
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The Tigers are known to be casting a wide net in their search for relievers, and ESPN?s Jerry Crasnick tweets that their targets include Ryan Madson, Shawn Kelley and Tommy Hunter in addition to previously reported links to Darren O?Day and Joakim Soria. As Crasnick further notes, Hunter was a teammate of GM Al Avila?s son (and former Detroit backstop) Alex Avila in college, giving Hunter a bit of an in with the organization. The Tigers would like to add a pair of bullpen arms, and Avila said yesterday that he?s not concerned with pitcher handedness but instead just focused on general upgrades.

The Tigers have interest in free agent starter Yovani Gallardo, Buster Olney of ESPN tweets. The Tigers don?t seem likely to be serious bidders for top starting pitchers, but they could bid for players in Gallardo?s tier as they attempt to fill in their rotation around Justin Verlander, Anibal Sanchez and Daniel Norris.
 
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