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March 9 in Tigers and mlb history:

1979 Commissioner Bowie Kuhn declares that all reporters?male and female?will have equal access to all big league locker rooms.

Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Lefty_Williams
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/willile01.shtml?redir
Lefty Williams 1913-1914.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wisehu01.shtml
Hughie Wise 1930.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ron_Kline
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/klinero01.shtml?redir
Ron Kline 1961-1962.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jim_Landis
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/landiji01.shtml?redir
Jim Landis 1967.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/C.J._Nitkowski
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/nitkoc.01.shtml?redir
C.J. Nitkowski 1995-1996, 1999-2001.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Clay_Rapada
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rapadcl01.shtml?redir
Clay Rapada 2007-2009.

Tigers players who passed away:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Aaron_Robinson
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/robinaa01.shtml?redir
Aaron Robinson 1949-1951.
November 10, 1948: Traded by the Chicago White Sox to the Detroit Tigers for Billy Pierce and $10,000. bad trade.
August 6, 1951: Selected off waivers by the Boston Red Sox from the Detroit Tigers.

from Baseball Reference
 
https://www.detroitathletic.com/blog/2016/03/09/detroit-tigers-revamp-pitching-staff-for-2016/
Fans may not recognize many of the guys pitching for the Tigers in 2016.
Detroit Athletic

The Detroit Tigers are performing a major overhaul of its pitching staff this season?and for good reason. Both the rotation and the bullpen needed a major fix?and the fate of the 2016 team depends heavily on how much the team improves in those areas.

It?s quite a large repair job being done. Of the 1,447 innings pitched by the Tigers last season, the men responsible for pitching 667 of them are no longer on the club?s forty-man roster. That means Detroit has to replace 46 percent of last year?s innings.

Noteworthy is that the hurler who pitched the most innings for the team in 2015?Alfredo Simon (182)?is gone. So, too, is the man who pitched the second-most innings out of the bullpen (62), Al Alburquerque. As far as Tiger fans are concerned, these two won?t be missed at all. In fact, their subtractions should be tremendous positives.

In fact, other than David Price and Joakim Soria, let?s wave a grateful goodbye to all the other pitchers who have left the team. Collectively, those who are now departed gave up 345 earned runs last year, for a 4.65 ERA?which balloons to 5.46 if you exclude Price and Soria.

It?s easy to picture an improvement for those missing 667 innings. It?s hard to imagine doing any worse.

Maybe Jordan Zimmerman can pick up 200 of those innings. Daniel Norris, who pitched 36.2 innings last year, should give the club at least 100 more this season. And Mike Pelfrey ?or whoever replaces him if he fails as the fourth starter?should log about another 160.

Bullpen finishers Francisco Rodriguez and Mark Lowe had better account for at least another 100-120?and if they duplicate their recent track records, they will certainly improve those innings tremendously.

Baseball Prospectus?s PECOTA projections have come under more scrutiny of late, and that respected publication doesn?t predict a good season for Detroit. Of course, they?re picking the Royals to be a losing team for the third straight year and they think the Rays will win the AL East, so take what they say with a large grain of salt.

Their individual projections get more respect, but they also are notoriously conservative and usually bank on regressions to the mean for most players. For what it?s worth, PECOTA projects 127 innings for Norris and 4.38 ERA; 120 innings for Pelfrey and a 4.38 ERA; 186 for Zimmerman and a 3.90 ERA; fifty-seven innings for both K-Rod and Lowe and ERAs in the 3.70-plus range for both. That?s a projected 511 more innings from these five with an ERA hovering about 4.00. That leaves 156 replacement innings to be accounted for. If Justin Verlander is healthy, he should account for nearly half of those (PECOTA projects him to pitch 207, which would be seventy-four more than in 2015).

Obviously, a lot of the staff?s success will hinge on the rest of the bullpen. Can Alex Wilson repeat his very good season? Will Blaine Hardy contribute again? And who will win this spring?s dogfight for those remaining bullpen spots? And will any pitcher emerge from the pack to be a solid No. 5 starter who gives the club 100-plus credible innings?

Whatever the answers to those questions are, they sure should be better solutions than the like of Kyle Lobstein, Tom Gorzelanny, Randy Wolf, Neftali Feliz, Ian Krol, and Joba Chamberlain. In addition to Simon and Alburquerque?s many bad innings, those other six gave us 216 mostly mediocre to awful innings last year. I?m sure the Tigers can find a way to do better with those innings this season.
 
http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2016/03/tigers_mulling_wynton_bernard.html#incart_river_index
Tigers mulling Wynton Bernard as early-season option in center field.
Mlive

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2016/03/09/wynton-bernard-detroit-tigers/81525042/
Wynton Bernard could begin season with Detroit Tigers.
Freep

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sp...rnard-could-short-term-fill--maybin/81527342/
Bernard could spell Maybin for short term.
Detnews

http://m.tigers.mlb.com/news/article/166830018/tigers-wynton-bernard-may-make-dream-reality
Tryout camp to Tigers? Bernard has chance.
Padres' 35th-round Draft pick in 2012 landed pro deal with Tigers in 2014.
Tigers official site
 
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http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2016/03/tigers_justin_upton_exits_game.html#incart_river_index
Tigers' Justin Upton exits game after near-collision with Anthony Gose.
Mlive

http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.s...in_upton_ok_could_s_1.html#incart_river_index
Tigers' Justin Upton OK, could still hit Thursday vs. Phillies.
Mlive

http://m.tigers.mlb.com/news/article/166757912/tigers-justin-upton-suffers-left-ankle-injury
Tigers' Upton hurts ankle, exits as precaution.
Stepped on by Gose in near collision, slugger slated to DH on Thursday.
Tigers official site
 
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