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November 16 in Tigers and mlb history:

1912 - Detroit Tigers infielder Red Corriden is sold to the Cincinnati Reds.

1950 - Major League Presidents Ford Frick (American League) and Will Harridge (National League) vote to deposit $950,000 received for World Series TV and radio rights into the player's pension fund.

2005: Broadcaster Ralph Edwards, dies today in Los Angeles, CA at age 92; he was considered the voice that launched the Jimmy Fund, the children's cancer-fighting charity long favored by the Boston Red Sox.

2011: The Manager of the Year Awards go to Kirk Gibson of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League and the Tampa Bay Rays' Joe Maddon in the American League. Gibson wins in his first full season as a skipper, while it's a second time for Maddon to receive the award.

Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Paul_Foytack
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/foytapa01.shtml?redir
Paul Foytack 1953, 1955-1963.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Frank_Bolling
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bollifr01.shtml?redir
Frank Bolling 1954, 1956-1960.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Harry_Chiti
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/chitiha01.shtml?redir
Harry Chiti 1960-1961.

from baseball reference
 
The Tigers are one of many teams who showed interest in Jake McGee and Brad Boxberger during the GM Meetings. The two relievers have drawn a lot of interest, the Rays aren?t under any real pressure to make a deal now and could revisit trade talks at midseason if they don?t find a current offer to their liking. MLBTR projects McGee to earn $4.7MM in 2016 while Boxberger is still a year away from arbitration eligibility, so the Rays aren?t yet facing any financial burden from keeping both relievers. Detroit is known to be looking at both trades and free agency in order to upgrade their bullpen, so it?s no surprise that the Tigers would check in with Tampa.
 
Joe Torre, now MLB's chief baseball officer, sounded a few interesting notes during last week's general manager meetings in Boca Raton, Florida. Among them was the possibility that MLB would do away with the takeout slide at second base in light of the injury to Mets' shortstop, Ruben Tejada, during the playoffs. There appears to be a growing consensus that plays like that should be eliminated from the game. While no decision has been made, it seems a good bet that changes to the rules to prevent that kind of slide will be forthcoming. Or perhaps they'll simply enforce the rules already on the books?

The pace of play saw some improvement this season, even though it probably didn't feel that way at all to Tigers' fans in 2015. Average game times were down to two hours and fifty-six minutes, a decline of six minutes from 2014.

Also under review is the New York attorney general's call for one-day fantasy sites like Fanduel and Draftkings to stop accepting entries from New York residents. The question of whether these sites should be treated like other forms of gambling is one that will no doubt take some time to play out in the courts.

Finally, and perhaps most interesting, were Torre's comments on the use of replay on players sliding into bases. There appears some pressure from major league managers to allow a sliding baserunner some leeway were he to come off the base for a moment. In reference to that particular idea, Torre stated that "before, we accepted the imperfections of the game." That seems a very difficult statement to reconcile with most other rulings made in recent years where replay is concerned. Whether or not an idea like that has any traction or not, we'll have to wait for the Winter Meetings in December, if not longer, to know.
 
November 17 in Tigers and mlb history:

1887 - The National League meets and officially recognizes the Brotherhood by meeting with a committee of three players, Monte Ward, Ned Hanlon, and Dan Brouthers.

1965 - Major League Baseball owners unanimously elect William D. Eckert as Commissioner, succeeding Ford Frick, who leaves office after 14 years. Eckert, a retired Lt. General in the United States Air Force, becomes baseball's fourth commissioner. He will serve only one term before being replaced by Bowie Kuhn.

1979 - On a flight to Austin, Texas, Daniel Okrent sketches out the first draft of rules for what will become Rotisserie League Baseball. Had the friends he was seeing not ignored these rules, the Rotisserie League would have been called Pit League, after the Austin barbecue joint where Okrent first unveiled them. Two weeks later in New York, he pitches the idea to a more receptive group with whom Okrent lunches monthly at La R?tisserie Fran?aise.

1987 - George Bell becomes the first Toronto Blue Jays player ever to win the American League MVP Award, edging Alan Trammell of the Detroit Tigers, 332-311. Bell hit .308 with 47 home runs and a league-leading 134 RBI. Trammell hit .343 with 28 home runs, 105 RBI, 205 hits, 329 Total bases, Slugged .551 with an OPS of .953 and an OPS+ of 155.

2004 - After being wined and dined by Detroit Tigers legend Al Kaline and team owner Mike Ilitch, free agent Troy Percival signs a two-year, $12 million deal, surprising everyone, including his agent, by announcing he wants to play in Detroit next season. Before the preliminary meeting in the Motor City, the former Angels closer had been scheduled to meet with the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs later in the week. Bothered by arm problems in 2005, Percival will finish 1-3 with eight saves and a 5.76 ERA in just 26 games pitched.

2010: The Tigers sign free agent reliever Joaquin Benoit, coming off a sensational year with Tampa Bay, to a three-year deal worth $16.5 million.

2011: Major League Baseball announces major structural changes for 2013 as a result of its approval of the sale of the Houston Astros to a group headed by Jim Crane. The Astros will move from the NL Central to the AL West, giving both leagues 15 teams split into three five-team divisions. As a result, teams will play a more balanced schedule and there will be interleague play during the entire season to accommodate the odd number of teams in each circuit. There will also be two additional playoff teams, but the new postseason format will be annouced at a later date as it is tied to current negotiations with the Players Association regarding the new collective bargaining agreement.

Tigers players and managers birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/George_Stallings
http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/stallge01.shtml
George Stallings manager 1901.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jensewi01.shtml
Willie Jensen 1912.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/clairda01.shtml
Davey Claire 1920.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/weikdi01.shtml
Dick Weik 1953-1954.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/penaor01.shtml
Orlando Pena 1965-1967.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/havenbr01.shtml
Brad Havens 1989.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcmilbi01.shtml
Billy McMillon 2000-2001.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Shane_Greene
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/greensh02.shtml
Shane Greene 2015-present.

from baseball reference
 
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