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October 7 in Tigers and mlb history:

1923: Harry Heilmann wins batting title with .4027 average. Denies Babe Ruth (.393) Triple Crown.
Only 3 players have hit .400 since. Off the top of my head; Hornsby, Terry, and Williams.

1928: In the World Series, Lou Gehrig hits two home runs to lead the New York Yankees to a 7 - 3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals, giving them a 3-0 lead.

1929: The Detroit Tigers drafted Spence Harris from Minneapolis (American Association) in the 1929 rule 5 draft.

1935: Goose Goslin of the Detroit Tigers drives in Mickey Cochrane to win the World Series. With two outs in the bottom of the 9th inning, Goslin's hit gives the Tigers a 4 - 3 win over the Chicago Cubs.

1936: The Brooklyn Dodgers fire future Hall of Fame manager Casey Stengel. Thirteen years later, Stengel will be hired by the New York Yankees and will lead the team to five straight World Championships. Stengel will eventually conclude his career with the cross-town New York Mets

1945: Hank Greenberg hits three doubles to led the Detroit Tigers to an 8 - 4 victory over the Chicago Cubs, giving the Tigers a 3-2 lead in the World Series.

1968: In Game Five of the World Series at Tiger Stadium, Detroit Tigers pitcher Mickey Lolich leads 5 - 3 over the St. Louis Cardinals, when Lou Brock tries to score standing up on Julian Javier's single and is gunned down by Willie Horton's throw. Al Kaline's bases-loaded single drives in the deciding runs.

1969: The St. Louis Cardinals trade outfielder Curt Flood to the Philadelphia Phillies in a blockbuster deal involving slugging first baseman Richie Allen. Flood will refuse to report to the Phillies and will take baseball to court over the reserve clause that binds a player perpetually to one team.

1982: The San Diego Padres purchased Elias Sosa from the Detroit Tigers.

1985: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later, Juan Berenguer and Bob Melvin to the San Francisco Giants for Eric King, Dave LaPoint and Matt Nokes. The Detroit Tigers sent Scott Medvin (December 11, 1985) to the San Francisco Giants to complete the trade.

1988: The Detroit Tigers released Chris Bando.

2002: Seth Greisinger of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2005: The Detroit Tigers released Gary Knotts.

2012: The Tigers take a two games to none lead in the ALDS on Don Kelly's sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 9th which scores Omar Infante to close a 5 - 4 win over Oakland. Detroit scores in each of the last three innings to pull out the win.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/preskjo01.shtml
Joe Presko 1957-1958.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Milt_Cuyler
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cuylemi01.shtml
Milt Cuyler 1990-1995.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/troybu01.shtml

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https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/sprint_speed_leaderboard
Statcast Sprint Speed Leaderboard.
BaseballSavant

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_leaderboard
Statcast Leaderboard Hitters.
A table displaying leaders in Statcast metrics such as Barrels, Exit Velocity (EV), Batted Ball Distance (DST), Projected Home Run Distance (HR-DST), Launch Angle (LA) and Batted Ball Events (BBE).
BaseballSavant

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/catch_probability_leaderboard
Statcast Catch Probability Leaderboard.
Catch Probability expresses the likelihood for a ball to be caught by an outfielder based on opportunity time, distance needed, and direction. “Opportunity time” starts when the ball is released by the pitcher, and “distance needed” is the shortest distance needed to make the catch. Learn more about how direction is accounted for here. Read more about the details of how Catch Probability works here.
BaseballSavant

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/outs_above_average
Outs Above Average Leaderboard.
Outs Above Average (OAA) is the cumulative effect of all individual Catch Probability plays a fielder has been credited or debited with, making it a range-based metric of fielding skill that accounts for the number of plays made and the difficulty of them. For example, a fielder who catches a 25% Catch Probability play gets +.75; one who fails to make the play gets -.25. Read more about how Outs Above Average works here.

Expected Catch Probability expresses, based on the difficulty of balls hit to the fielder, how many an average outfielder would have caught.
Actual Catch Percentage is the actual performance of the particular fielder on those plays.
Catch Percentage Added is the difference between the two, showing how much the fielder added (or didn't) based on the opportunities he was presented with.
BaseballSavant
 
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Sportsman Park, St Louis, MO, October 2, 1908 ? Ty Cobb steals third base against St Louis Browns.
BaseballHistoryComesAlive

http://www.baseballhistorycomesalive.com/?p=3530
Augusta, GA, March 18, 1926 ? Ty Cobb hits with his new spectacles.
BaseballHistoryComesAlive

http://www.baseballhistorycomesalive.com/?p=5262
A Significant Date For Both Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker!
BaseballHistoryComesAlive

http://www.baseballhistorycomesalive.com/?p=8067
Birthday Tribute to Ty Cobb: His Great Season of 1911.
BaseballHistoryComesAlive

http://www.baseballhistorycomesalive.com/?p=9095
Classic Ty Cobb from Charles Conlon Collection ? Colorized by Don Stokes!
BaseballHistoryComesAlive

http://www.baseballhistorycomesalive.com/?p=9987
Bennett Park, Detroit, MI, October 11, 1907 ? Tigers continue to give in Cubs fits in World Series in winning Game Four.
BaseballHistoryComesAlive

http://www.baseballhistorycomesalive.com/?p=9833
Bennett Park, Detroit, MI, April 15, 1911 ? White Sox and Tigers play season opener in a heavy snowstorm.
BaseballHistoryComesAlive

http://www.baseballhistorycomesalive.com/?p=9943
Ty Cobb Resigns with the Tigers for $4,000!
BaseballHistoryComesAlive

http://www.baseballhistorycomesalive.com/?p=10030
Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY, May 9, 1926 ? Ty Cobb?s two home runs help Tigers down Yanks in a slug fest 14-10.
BaseballHistoryComesAlive
 
http://www.baseballhistorycomesalive.com/?p=7006
Judge Landis Hired by Major League Baseball, November 12, 1920!
BaseballHistoryComesAlive

http://www.baseballhistorycomesalive.com/?p=10067
Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY, August 14, 1934 ? Ruth out at home as Tigers Ray Hayworth applies tag.
BaseballHistoryComesAlive

http://www.baseballhistorycomesalive.com/?p=7181
Navin Field, Detroit, MI, October 8, 1934 ? Cards Jack Rothrock slides home safely under a leaping Mickey Cochrane of the Tigers in World Series action.
BaseballHistoryComesAlive

http://www.baseballhistorycomesalive.com/?p=5108
1935 World Series: Tigers vs. Cubs!
BaseballHistoryComesAlive

http://www.baseballhistorycomesalive.com/?p=6040
NFL in Ballpark Series -Detroit, MI, October 16, 1938 ? The first ever Lions game at Briggs Stadium (Tiger Stadium).
BaseballHistoryComesAlive

http://www.baseballhistorycomesalive.com/?p=4056
Shibe Park, Philadelphia, PA, June 4, 1940 ? Detroit Tigers Hank Greenberg out at home in 8-6 loss to A?s.
BaseballHistoryComesAlive

http://www.baseballhistorycomesalive.com/?p=9769
Fenway Park, Boston, MA, August 24, 1940 ? Ted Williams comes in to pitch two innings in relief in 12-1 loss to Detroit.
BaseballHistoryComesAlive

http://www.baseballhistorycomesalive.com/?p=9456
Briggs Stadium, Detroit, MI, June 15, 1948 ? Lights are finally on as Detroit becomes last AL team to host night games.
BaseballHistoryComesAlive
 
Tigers home attendance this season was the lowest since 2005.
Detroit's roster was stripped of a lot of big contracts this summer.

The Tigers plan 1968 anniversary promotions in 2018.
As part of their promotional plans for 2018, the Detroit Tigers intend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of their 1968 World Series championship team.
The hope is that those to-be-announced anniversary promotions, and traditionally popular enticements such as bobbleheads and fireworks, will lure fans to Comerica Park, where the Tigers team on the field is expected to be a far cry from the one that beat the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games 50 seasons ago.



Detroit's roster was stripped of a lot of talent and a lot of big contracts this summer as Tigers ownership and management went all-in on a rebuilding effort that's a sea change in business strategy. They have shed expensive stars in trades in return for young, cheap talent they'll develop over time.
That means more losses. As 2017 draws to an end, the Tigers have lost nearly 100 ? the season ended with a weekend series at Minnesota ? and fans have drifted away from the ballpark.
Detroit had 2.3 million fans at 41,299-seat Comerica Park for 81 home games this season. That's the lowest total home attendance since drawing a little more than 2 million in 2005. The 28,661-per-game average still ranks 14th best in the team's 117 seasons. It's also the best in the American League Central Division.
All the promotions and gimmicks will do little more than stanch hemorrhaging if the Tigers continue to lose. From Sept. 1-27, their record was 4-22, thanks to a roster depleted of much of its major league talent after trades and injuries.

They're down more than 2,500 fans a game since last season, and since 2013, the Tigers' per-game attendance is down an average of 9,406 fans per game. That's nearly a 25 percent decline over five years.

The Tigers' only sellout this season was 45,013 for Opening Day. Detroit sold out two of 81 home games last season, and four in 2015. In 2014, the last year the Tigers made the playoffs, they sold out 27 of 81 home games. Tigers attendance peaked in 2008 with a franchise-best 3.2 million, which included a club record 41 sellouts. They averaged 39,538 that season.

The Tigers sold about 15,500 season tickets for 2017, and that number is likely to decline next season. The franchise record for season-ticket sales was about 27,000 in 2008, sparked by the trade that brought slugger Miguel Cabrera from the Florida Marlins.

Season tickets are a revenue lifeblood of pro sports teams because they're guaranteed income not subject to in-season fluctuations of fan interest. If losing stretche multiple seasons, season ticket sales will drop off, too.

Fans tired of losing have plenty of options to spend their discretionary dollars on in the area, including the United Shore Professional Baseball League, a developmental outfit in Utica that caters to fans seeking an inexpensive baseball game in the northern suburbs. It averaged 3,350 fans per game this year.

The Tigers' front office has tools to slow the gate slide: Discounted tickets, group sales, promotions and giveaways, social media campaigns, digital, print and broadcast advertising, and offering experience options for fans such as interacting with current and former players. It's the playbook used across sports these days. The Tigers also can remind fans that the stadium is in the 50-block District Detroit project that the team's owners, the Ilitch family, is spending $2 billion to create.

"It becomes more about event marketing than baseball. Every team has gone through it, even the Yankees," said Michael Cramer, who was president of the Texas Rangers and NHL's Dallas Stars from 2000-04 and now is director of the Texas Program in Sports and Media at the University of Texas. "The best way to do it is to have fun, market the stadium, the game, have giveaways and concerts. Do some things you might not do. Unless you can make it a fun and entertaining day that just happens to be while a baseball game is going on, you're not going to do as well when you're not winning."

The team declined to comment on their attendance or plans for 2018 other than to say they're still being formulated. The Tigers did acknowledge they're hiring more analytics staff ? and need to find a new manager ? to hasten the rebuilding.

While the gate declines are stark, a decline in fan revenue will be less of a strain on the Tigers' finances next season because they've slashed their labor costs via trades and releasing players. Detroit began the season with more than $200 million earmarked for players, and has since shed tens of millions of dollars.

Currently, the team has $96 million in payroll on the books for 2018. That doesn't include 10 players who are eligible for salary arbitration next season, nor players under team control making the league minimum. Their salaries likely will add $20 million to $30 million to the payroll. The club also could add relatively cheap free agents, so payroll on Opening Day could be around $130 million.

Some of that money will be paid to former players. The Tigers will pay $8 million of Justin Verlander's salary next season as part of the terms of his trade to the Houston Astros. Detroit also will pay the Texas Rangers $6 million for Prince Fielder's $214 million salary as part of his 2013 trade for Ian Kinsler.

The Tigers aren't a poverty case. Tigers General Manager Al Avila has an Ilitch-mandated budget to live within the team's means as he handles the roster, regardless of how many fans come through the turnstiles, but fan-based revenue is just one part of any team's budget. The team takes in millions of dollars in league-wide shared revenue from broadcast rights deals, licensing, and merchandise sales.

The Tigers also get $50 million a season from their local deal with Fox Sports Detroit. That contract is up in 2021, and if the Tigers are poised to contend by then, they could command an even more lucrative long-term deal, Cramer said. He figured Detroit's rebuilding cycle, if successful, would take about five seasons.

What this season, with its trades and revamped business strategy, represents is the close of an era that began in earnest with a surprise World Series trip in 2006 during a 95-win season. It was when owner Mike Ilitch, who died this past February at age 87, began spending in earnest on players, shelling out $1.6 billion over the next 11 seasons. Detroit had a winning record in nine of those years, and two American League pennants.

CrainsDetroit
 
October 8 in Tigers and mlb history:

1887: The Detroit Wolverines finish 79-45 to win their first and only National League championship. The team had Hall of Famers; Dan Brouthers, Sam Thompson, Deacon White, and Ned Hanlon.

1887: Donie Bush born in Indianapolis. Tigers SS 1908-21. His 52 SB was AL rookie record till 1992. Led Tigers in OBP in 1909 WS.

1904: Jimmy Barrett becomes 1st MLB player to play 162 games in a season. Tigers had 154-game schedule but 10 ties.

1907: Tigers play their 1st-ever World Series game, in Chicago. Game ends in 3-3 tie after 12 innings

1909: Pirates win Game 1 of the World Series vs. Tigers at Forbes Field. Honus Wagner goes 1-for-3 with a double

1940: With only one day off, Bobo Newsom comes back for the Tigers and nearly has enough to win Game Seven of the World Series. Cincinnati Reds Paul Derringer gives up seven hits in the first six innings but sets the Tigers down in order in the final three frames for the 2 - 1 win, giving the Reds the Series.

1945: Stan Hack's double makes a tricky bounce over left fielder Hank Greenberg's shoulder with two outs in the 12th inning to score runner Bill Schuster and give the Chicago Cubs an 8 - 7 win in Game Six to even the World Series with Detroit.

1956: Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitches the only perfect game in World Series history for a 2 - 0 triumph over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Sal Maglie, the opposing pitcher, gives up five hits.

1961: The New York Yankees' Whitey Ford sets a World Series record for consecutive scoreless innings by extending his streak to 32 innings in a 7 - 0 triumph over the Cincinnati Reds in Game 4. The mark had previously been held by Babe Ruth.

1972: In Game 2 of the American League Championship Series, Bert Campaneris, a rotten bastard scumbag for the ages, of the Oakland Athletics throws his bat at Detroit Tigers pitcher Lerrin LaGrow after being hit by a pitch. Both players are ejected and Campaneris is suspended for the rest of the series.

1974: The Detroit Tigers released Ike Brown.

1982: The Detroit Tigers released Rick Peters.
1982: The Detroit Tigers released Jerry Turner.

1985: The Detroit Tigers released Bob Stoddard.

1987: Tigers take 2-0 lead before Twins score 6 runs off Jack Morris to win Game 2 of the ALCS.

1993: The Detroit Tigers released Dave Johnson.

2004: The Detroit Tigers selected Colby Lewis off waivers from the Texas Rangers.

2008: Francis Beltran of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2011: The Texas Rangers take the first game of the 2011 ALCS over the Detroit Tigers with a rain-soaked 3 - 2 win over ace Justin Verlander in Arlington. They score two early runs against the 24-game winner; one on a solo homer by Nelson Cruz in the 4th, before Verlander leaves after a 5th-inning rain delay. Rangers starter C.J. Wilson who has to depart early, but five relievers allow only a hit and a walk in the last 4 1/3 innings; Alexi Ogando, the man they call wart face, is the winner.

2013: The ALDS will require a decisive 5th game after the Tigers defeat the Athletics, 8 - 6, in Game 4. Facing elimination, Detroit manager Jim Leyland uses ace starter Max Scherzer in relief in the 7th; he allows a run in that inning but escapes a none out, bases loaded jam in the 8th while his teammates score 5 runs over those two innings to give him the win.

Tigers players and coaches birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Donie_Bush
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bushdo01.shtml
Donie Bush 1908-1921.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gillebo01.shtml
Bob Gillespie 1944.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/peppedo01.shtml
Don Pepper 1966.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Wally_Moses
Wally Moses coach 1967-1970.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/chrismi01.shtml
Happy Birthday Mike Chris 1979.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cabelen01.shtml
Enos Cabell 1982-1983.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/klawial01.shtml
Al Klawitter 1913.

from baseball referenc
 
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Brad Ausmus wanted out of Detroit.
The Tigers decided before the season ended to part with manager Brad Ausmus, but he told Cafardo that he wouldn?t have returned ?even if they had offered me a three-year deal.? Ausmus didn?t believe he was the right match for a Detroit team in the initial stages of a rebuild. On potentially managing someplace else, he said, ?I?d have to study the situation and see if it was the right fit for me.?
MLBTR

Tigers interested in Mike Redmond.
Rockies bench coach Mike Redmond is drawing interest from two manager-needy teams, the Phillies and Tigers, Jon Heyman of FanRag reports. Redmond isn?t far removed from managing the Marlins, who went 155-207 on his watch from 2013-15. The former big league catcher played with the Marlins from 1998-2004, giving him familiarity with Tigers general manager Al Avila. The executive was in Miami?s front office for a portion of Redmond?s tenure as a player there.
MLBTR
 
October 9 in Tigers and mlb history:

1886: Detroit Wolverines finish season at 87-36, best winning %age (.707) in Detroit pro baseball history ('84 Tigers: 104-58, .642).

1905: Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants outpitches 26-game winner Eddie Plank and the Philadelphia Athletics, 3 - 0, in the first game of an all-shutout World Series.

1907: Cubs beat Tigers 3-1, take 1-0 WS lead. Bill Coughlin catches Cubs' Jimmy Slagle on 1st hidden ball trick in WS history.

1909: Ty Cobb steals home to spark a 3-run rally; Tigers tie World Series at 1 game each in 7 - 2 win over pirates.

1910: Nap Lajoie, in a batting race with Ty Cobb, collects eight hits for Cleveland in a season-ending doubleheader with the St. Louis Browns. The hits were somewhat tainted, however, as St. Louis third baseman Red Corriden played back while Lajoie bunted safely six times. Cobb still wins the batting title with a .383 average.

1934: The St. Louis Cardinals' Dizzy Dean blanks the Detroit Tigers, 11 - 0, in Game Seven of the World Series.

1938: In the World Series, the New York Yankees become the first team to win three successive World Championships, defeating the Cubs, 8 - 3. Red Ruffing posts his second victory of the Series as the Yankees sweep the Cubs for the second time in six years.

1964: The Detroit Tigers released Bill Bruton.
1964: The Detroit Tigers released Mike Roarke.

1966: In the World Series, Dave McNally of the Baltimore Orioles wraps up a brilliant pitching display, and a World Championship, with a four-hit 1 - 0 victory. Frank Robinson's home run off Don Drysdale gives Baltimore a surprising sweep of the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers. The 33 consecutive scoreless innings pitched by Baltimore sets a World Series record.

1968: Tigers beat Cardinals 13-1 on HRs from Jim Northrup & Al Kaline and even Series at 3-3.

1970: The Washington Senators traded Ed Brinkman, Joe Coleman, Jim Hannan and Aurelio Rodriguez to the Detroit Tigers for Elliott Maddox, Denny McLain, Norm McRae and Don Wert.

1984: The Detroit Tigers win the World Series opener as Jack Morris pitches a complete game 3 - 2 victory over San Diego. Larry Herndon's two-run home run in the 5th inning provides the winning margin.

1985: The Detroit Tigers released Rusty Kuntz.
1985: The Detroit Tigers released Mickey Mahler.

1998: Joe Siddall of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2002: Tigers hire Alan Trammell as manager.

2008: The Detroit Tigers signed Eugenio Suarez as an amateur free agent.

2012: The Athletics avoid elimination with a 2 - 0 win over the Tigers in Game 3 of the ALDS. Brett Anderson pitches 6 shutout innings in returning to the mound after a twenty-day injury layoff, setting the tone for Oakland. Coco Crisp scores a run in the 1st and DH Seth Smith homers off Anibal Sanchez in the 5th for the only runs of the game.

Tigers players birthdays:

Tigers players and coaches who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/schalbi01.shtml
Biff Schaller 1911.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/friedcy01.shtml
Cy Fried 1920.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Al_Wingo
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wingoal01.shtml
Al Wingo 1924-1928.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jo-Jo_White
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/whitejo01.shtml
Jo Jo White 1932-1938, coach 1960.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/chrisma01.shtml
Mark Christman 1938-1939.

from Baseball Reference
 
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