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http://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2017/01/13/detroit-tigers-arbitration/96528774/
Detroit Tigers avoid arbitration with all 6 eligible players.
Freep

http://m.tigers.mlb.com/news/article/213442814/tigers-avoid-arbitration-with-six-players/
Tigers maintain streak, agree to deals with six.
Tigers official site

http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2017/01/tigers_arbitration.html#incart_river_index
Tigers arbitration: Deals reached with all 6 eligible players.
Mlive

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2017/01/13/tigers-avoid-arbitration-with-six-players/
Tigers Avoid Arbitration With Six Players.
CBSDetroit

http://www.scout.com/mlb/rumors/story/1745620-tigers-avoid-arbitration-with-six-players?s=273
Detroit Tigers Avoid Arbitration With Andrew Romine, Alex Wilson, Jose Iglesias, Bruce Rondon, Nick Castellanos, Justin Wilson.
TigsTown
 
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http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2017/01/tigers_2017_winter_caravan_sit.html#incart_river_index
Tigers' 2017 Winter Caravan sites announced.
Mlive

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/m...roit-tigers-winter-caravan-schedule/96553224/
Detroit Tigers release winter caravan schedule for next week.
Freep

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sp...inter-caravan-touch-bases-next-week/96556814/
Tigers Winter Caravan to touch bases Jan. 19-20.
Detnews

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2017/01/13/2017-tigers-winter-caravan-ready-to-roll/
2017 Tigers Winter Caravan Ready to Roll.
CBSDetroit
 
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kalinecountry said:
http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2017/01/justin_verlander_trade_tigers.html#incart_river_index
Justin Verlander glad Tigers are back in '17: 'I'm too old be part of a rebuilding'.
Mlive

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2017/01...-for-a-rebuild-happy-tigers-kept-team-intact/
Verlander, “Too Old” For A Rebuild, Happy Tigers Kept Team Intact.
CBSDetroit

http://www.blessyouboys.com/2017/1/13/14266450/detroit-tigers-justin-verlander-mlb-radio-interview
Tigers’ Justin Verlander says he’s ‘too old to rebuild’.
bybtb

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...er-justin-verlander-said-too-old-part-rebuild
Justin Verlander glad Tigers decided not to 'blow up the team'.
espn

https://soundcloud.com/mlbnetworkra...bout-detroits-off-season-on-mlb-network-radio
Podcast Tigers SP Justin Verlander talks about Detroit's off season on MLB Network Radio.
Click to expand...

http://m.tigers.mlb.com/det/video/v...on-tigers-offseason/?affiliateId=clubMEGAMENU
Webvideo Verlander on Tigers' offseason.
Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander joins MLB Tonight to reflect on the team's offseason thus far.

http://m.tigers.mlb.com/det/video/v...for-tigers-rotation/?affiliateId=clubMEGAMENU
Webvideo Verlander on Tigers' rotation.
Justin Verlander joins MLB Network Radio to discuss the Tigers' rotation which boasts both experienced veterans and promising young arms.

https://beck.mlblogs.com/verlander-...-a-rebuilding-process-27e5bbcff27f#.3a5ce1z71
Verlander: “I’m too old to be part of a rebuilding process”.
JasonBeck'sTigersBlog
 
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January 14 in Tigers and mlb history:

1940 - Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis gives free agency to 91 Detroit Tigers players and farm hands. Citing cover-ups of the movement of players within its organization, Landis hands freedom to Roy Cullenbine, Benny McCoy, Dutch Dietz, and Steve Rachunok from the parent roster and orders $47,250 paid as compensation to 14 players.
Johnny Sain is one of 23 players who will later make it to the major leagues. Landis's edict also nullifies a deal that would have brought the Philadelphia Athletics' Wally Moses to the Tigers. Both players will later become coaches for the Tigers in the late 1960's

1954 - Former Yankees outfielder Joe DiMaggio marries actress Marilyn Monroe.

1981 - Frank Robinson is named manager of the San Francisco Giants. In 1975, Robinson became the first African-American manager in major league history when he was hired by the Cleveland Indians.

1999 Houston trades Brad Ausmus to the Tigers.

2006: Dontrelle Willis, Mark Teixeira and Alfonso Soriano are among the 100 players who file for salary arbitration, the often acrimonious negotiating process that rankles baseball management every winter. Mark Prior, Josh Beckett, Brad Lidge, Adam Dunn, Morgan Ensberg, Brian Roberts, Travis Lee and Scot Shields are some of the other players who file before the deadline. Last year, players in arbitration averaged a 123 percent salary increase.

2010: The Tigers agree to terms with free agent reliever Jose Valverde, who played for the Houston Astros last season. As a result of the signing, the Tigers will give up their first pick in the 2010 amateur draft, the first time the team has surrendered its top pick since signing Rob Deer as a free agent in 1991.

Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/johnske01.shtml
Ken Johnson 1952.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/campbda01.shtml
Dave Campbell 1967-1969.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Mike_Pelfrey
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pelfrmi01.shtml?redir
Mike Pelfrey 2016-present.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/aybarer01.shtml
Erick Aybar 2016.

Tigers players who passed away:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hardy_Richardson
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/richaha01.shtml?redir
Hardy Richardson Detroit Wolverines 1886-1888.

from Baseball Reference
 
January 15 in Tigers and mlb history:

1934 - New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth signs a one-year contract worth $35,000. While the contract is considered a lucrative one for the times, it represents a pay cut of $17,000 for "The Babe".

1936: IRS figures for 1934 show Branch Rickey as the highest-paid man in Major League Baseball at $49,470. Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis had voluntarily taken a cut in 1933 from $65,000 to $40,000 because of the Depression.

1942: US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sends his famed "Green Light Letter" to Commissioner Judge Landis, encouraging Major League Baseball to continue playing during World War II. President Roosevelt states that he believes playing the sport would be good for Americans and encourages the owners to have more games at night to give war workers an opportunity to attend games. Despite a loss of many star players to military service, all 16 teams will continue to play regular schedules for the duration of the war.
Ironically, the Chicago Cubs, who had signed an agreement with a contractor to install lights at Wrigley Field, drop their plans because of the military's need for the material. It will take 35 more years before lights are finally installed at the venerable ballpark.

1958 - The New York Yankees announce that 140 games will be televised this season. The deal is worth over one million dollars. Six days later, the Philadelphia Phillies agree to televise 78 games into the New York City area, which is without National League baseball for the first time since the league's inception in 1876.

1964: Major League Baseball executives vote to hold a free agent draft in New York City.
A new TV pact is also signed. San Francisco Giants outfielder Willie Mays, the highest-paid player in major league baseball, signs for $105,000.

1990 - Central League star Cecil Fielder signs a contract with the Detroit Tigers. Fielder, who had blasted 38 home runs for the Hanshin Tigers in 1989, will hit 51 home runs this season and become one of the premier power hitters in the American League for most of the 1990s.

2015: At the last owners meeting chaired by outgoing Commissioner Bud Selig, owners decide to use a pitch clock during minor league games at the AA and AAA level this season in an experiment to quicken the pace of games.

Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Grover_Lowdermilk
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lowdegr01.shtml?redir
Grover Lowdermilk 1915-1916.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Steve_Gromek
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gromest01.shtml?redir
Steve Gromek 1953-1957.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Mike_Marshall_(marshmi01)
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/marshmi01.shtml?redir
Mike Marshall 1967.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/alvarlu01.shtml
Luis Alvardo 1977.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cappuge01.shtml
George Cappuzzello 1981.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Armando_Galarraga
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/galarar01.shtml?redir
Armando Galarraga 2008-2010.

from Baseball Reference
 
Jorge Posada?s presence on the Hall of Fame ballot got me thinking about Ted Simmons. The latter is thought of by some as Cooperstown-worthy, an honor that hasn?t ? and likely never will ? be bestowed on him. Posada is probably in the same boat. Great career, but destined to remain on the outside looking in.

Who was better?
Posada slashed .273/.374/.474, and had 1,664 hits and 275 HR. His OPS+ was 121, and he had 44.7 WAR. He made five all-star teams and started twice.
Simmons slashed .285/.348/.437, and had 2,472 hits and 248 HR. His OPS+ was 118, and he had 54.2 WAR. He made eight all-star teams and started twice.

Looking at the catcher leaderboard (from 1960 to the present) Simmons ranks seventh in WAR, with Posada five spots below him on the list. Two Tigers ? neither of whom are in the Hall ? bookend the newly-eligible Yankee. Lance Parrish is Posada?s arrears. In front of him is a player who dominated his position from 1964-1975.

Bill Freehan slashed .262/.340/.412 and had 1,591 hits and 200 home runs. His OPS+ was 112 and he had 44.8 WAR. He made 11 all-star teams and started seven.

Those accolades don?t necessarily jump off the page, but they certainly catch the eye. The only catchers with more all-star berths than Freehan are Mike Piazza (12), Elston Howard (12), Johnny Bench (14), Ivan Rodriguez (14), and Yogi Berra (18). Only 43 players in big-league history have been an all-star more times than Freehan.

Forced to rank them, I?d go Simmons, Freehan, Posada.

Fangraphs
 
January 16 in Tigers and mlb history:

1952 - The U.S. Standardization Board clears the way for Stan Musial to get a salary increase to $85,000. Prior to this relaxation of the rules, there was a wage freeze in effect due to the Korean War. Under the new rules, a team is free to raise individual salaries, as long as they do not exceed a complicated formula, based on total team salaries for any one year, from 1946 to 1950, plus 10 percent.

1970 - Gold Glove outfielder Curt Flood files a lawsuit challenging the reserve clause, which binds major league players to teams perpetually. Flood had been traded by the St. Louis Cardinals to the Philadelphia Phillies on October 7, 1969, but has refused to report to the Phillies. Flood contends that the reserve clause violates antitrust laws. He will lose the suit but the judge will suggest changes to the reserve system, opening the door for salary arbitration and free agency.

1974 - The Baseball Writers Association of America elects former New York Yankees teammates Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford to the Hall of Fame. Mantle becomes only the seventh player to make it in his first try.

1996: Major League Baseball's executive council approves a history-making first: interleague play for the 1997 season. The Players' Association will also give its approval, enabling geographic rivals like New York's Mets and Yankees, Chicago's Cubs and White Sox, and Los Angeles' Angels and Dodgers to play each other during the regular season.

2003: The owners establish the minimum age of 14 for bat boys. The change from not having any age requirement is prompted by a near collision at home plate during Game 5 of last year's World Series involving 4-year old bat boy Darren Baker, the son of Giants manager Dusty Baker.

2003: Trying to restore a competitive edge to the All-Star Game, the owners unanimously approve that the winning league of the Mid-Summer classic will have home-field advantage during the World Series. Approval is needed by the players to change the current rotation between the two leagues, which was put in place since the inception of the World Series in 1903.

2014 - At their quarterly meeting, MLB owners agree to the proposed expansion of instant replay; as the Players Association and Umpires Association have also agreed to the changes, they will be effective at the start of this season. A manager will be able to challenge up to two decisions per game, and the umpiring crew can decide on its own to review a call from the 7th inning on. Almost all calls will be subject to review, except for balls and strikes, obstruction and interference.

Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kochebr01.shtml
Brad Kocher 1912.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Johnny_Watson
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/watsojo01.shtml?redir
Johnny Watson 1930.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Marty_Castillo
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/castima02.shtml
Marty Castillo 1981-1985.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/saupowa01.shtml
Warwick Saupold 2016.

Tigers players who passed away:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rossmcl01.shtml
Claude Rossman 1907-1909.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Baby_Doll_Jacobson
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jacobba01.shtml?redir
Baby Doll Jacobson 1915.

from Baseball Reference
 
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