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https://tigersminorleaguereport.com/2019/09/20/tigers-srd-291-no-relation-to-bill-james/
Podcast Tigers SRD 291-No Relation To Bill James. 125 minutes.

-Robert James joins Chris and Roger for the first time
-The language gets salty when it comes to one former Pirates closer (Warning: Explicit Language used during this segment of the Good, Bad and Ugly)
-The crew recaps the draft, the great year Issac Parades had for the system & what Tigers fan should expect next season.
 
https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/jordan-zimmermann-s-struggles-continue-vs-sox
Struggles continue for Zimmermann vs. Sox.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2019/9...mlb-draft-2020-magic-number-jordan-zimmermann
White Sox 10 - Tigers 1: Detroit?s MLB draft magic number is now 5.
The loss is Detroit?s 108th of the 2019 season, putting them one away from the second-worst mark in franchise history.
BYBTB

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/white-s...585#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=565585
Boxscore.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...dan-zimmermann-cruise-past-tigers/2383465001/
White Sox sock Jordan Zimmermann, blow out Tigers.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...it-tigers-chicago-white-sox-score/2335261001/
Detroit Tigers observations: Jordan Zimmermann shelled again in 10-1 blowout.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2019/09/white-sox-thrash-jordan-zimmermann-as-tigers-lose-10-1.html
White Sox thrash Jordan Zimmermann as Tigers lose 10-1.
Mlive

Zimmermann is the second Tigers pitcher since the Great Depression to allow 11 hits and 9 runs without getting out of the fourth. Brian Moehler did it in 2000.
No Tiger since at least 1908 has won less than two games in a season with at least 20 starts, according to Baseball Reference.
Jordan Zimmermann, currently 1-11, will have one more start after tonight.
 
September 21 in Tigers and mlb history:

1901: An American League record that still stands is set when Cleveland and Washington make 22 errors in a doubleheader, 16 by Cleveland. Washington wins both games, 18 - 7 and 11 - 3.

1903: Christy Mathewson, pitching for the third time in four games, keeps the Giants in 2nd place by beating Chicago's Clarence Currie, 8 - 3. For Matty, it is 30th win of the year.

1908: Detroit takes two at St. Louis. With two weeks to go, 3 1/2 games separate four teams.

1909: Rest seems to have cured Walter Johnson's sore arm, as the Nats' ace shuts out Detroit, 2 - 0, in his first appearance since August 29th.
He will finish the season at 13-25, 10 of the losses coming in shutouts.

1916: Tris Speaker goes 4 for 6 and drives in a run as Cleveland edges Washington and Walter Johnson, 3 - 2.

1922: The American League reinstates the MVP award, last given in 1914, appointing a committee of one writer from each city, headed by I.E. Sanborn of the Chicago Tribune. As a player-manager, Ty Cobb is not eligible, and the trophy goes to George Sisler. The National League will pick up the idea two years later.

1923: Babe Ruth is the unanimous choice of the American League committee of baseball writers for the MVP award.

1928: At St. Louis, Boston's Red Ruffing smashes a 3-run homer in the 7th and pitches the Sox to a 5 - 3 win over the Browns.

1932: Jimmie Foxx slugs home run #54 to lead the A's to an 8 - 4 win over the visiting Yankees.

1935: The Detroit Tigers clinch the pennant with a double win over the St. Louis Browns, winning 6 - 2 and 2 - 0.
Elden Auker wins the nitecap with a complete game shutout, while Tommy Bridges takes the opener. The Tigers will coast the rest of the way, going 1-6, while the Yankees go 6-1.
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1940 - With the Tigers, Indians, and Yankees neck-and-neck, the Tigers boost their lead to 2 games, as Schoolboy Rowe shuts out Cleveland, 5 - 0.
Rowe, seemingly washed up after anchoring the staff through Tiger championships in the mid-1930s, will finish at 16-3.

1946: Tigers win the final game played at Cleveland's League Park 5 - 3. Dizzy Trout with the 11 inning CG victory.

1950: Warren Spahn of the Braves wins his 21st game, hurling a 2-hit, 5 - 0 win over the Cards.

1950: Tigers beat Philadelphia to move into tie with the Yankees atop the American League.
It will be their last day in first place for a long time, as they enter the doldrums for most of the 1950s.

1952: Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella hits the last home run ever in Boston's Braves Field.

1957: Gail Harris is the last player to hit a home run as a New York Giant, as they beat the Pirates, 9 - 5, in the 2nd game of a doubleheader.

1958: Today's win is marred when Ted Williams, after striking out looking with two aboard to end the 3rd inning (and less than 2 months after having incurred his second spitting-related fine in less than 2 years), flings his bat aside in a fit of anger. Unfortunately, the intended flip along the ground gains some unwanted elevation, flying into the stands and striking, of all people, Boston GM Joe Cronin's 69-year-old housekeeper, Gladys Heffernan, in the head.
"I didn't mean to throw the bat that way," explains the distraught Williams.
"I started to flip it along the ground but the sticky stuff on my hands stuck to it and it left my hands on the fly instead.
I was sick." Mercifully Heffernan is not badly hurt, but Williams is greeted with a thunderous chorus of catcalls when he takes the field in the 4th. Cronin, for his part, hastily announces a 1-year contract extension for manager Mike Higgins in what is widely regarded as an attempt to distract attention from Ted's near-tragic tantrum. Nonetheless, American League President Will Harridge will impose a modest $50-dollar fine for the incident.

1959: The Braves' Warren Spahn notches his 20th win, 8 - 6, and his 266th National League victory to tie Eppa Rixey of the Phillies and Reds for the career-high in wins by a lefthander.

1963: Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew ties an American League record with four home runs in a doubleheader, a split with the Red Sox. Minnesota loses, 11 - 2, after winning the opener 13 - 4. The Killer has three homers in the lid lifter.

1968: The Tigers win 4 - 3 over the senators for their 11th straight to reach 101 wins for the third time in franchise history (1934, 1961).

1972: The American League East is in a virtual tie as Detroit's Joe Coleman posts his 18th win, a critical 10 - 3 defeat of first-place Boston. Coleman strikes out 10 and knocks in three runs.

1973: John Hiller pitches 3+ innings of scoreless relief, setting a Tigers record with his 38th save of the year and the Tigers beat the red sox 5 - 1.
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1976: Mark Fidrych pitches his 23rd complete game for his 17th win in the Tigers 5 - 3 win over the indians.
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1980: The Detroit Tigers signed Roger Mason as an amateur free agent.

1981: Steve Carlton fans 12 Expos in 10 innings to break Bob Gibson's National League strikeout record (Carlton now has 3,128), but the Phillies lose to the Expos, 1 - 0 in 17 innings.

1985: In a Boston 7 - 6 win over Detroit, Wade Boggs ties Tris Speaker's club mark of 222 hits with a single in the 2nd inning. His 5th-inning single, his 185th, sets a new American League record for singles, breaking the mark set by Willie Wilson in 1980. Wade will end with 187, a mark that will stand until 2001.

1987: Tigers lose to the red sox 9 - 4 to fall from first place in the AL East. They will not return until the dramatic season finale on October 3.

1987: With two stolen bases against the Cubs, Darryl Strawberry joins teammate Howard Johnson as a member of the 30/30 club. It is the first time in major league history players on the same team have hit 30 homers and have stolen 30 bases in the same year.

1999: The Red Sox defeat the Blue Jays, 3 - 0, as Pedro Martinez fans 12 for his 22nd win. He joins Randy Johnson as the only pitchers to strike out at least 300 in both leagues, and breaks Roger Clemens' club mark of 291 strikeouts.

2006: The Detroit Tigers released Brian Boehringer.

2008: In the last game ever played at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees defeat Baltimore, 7 - 3. Andy Pettitte earns his 14th win of the season, while Johnny Damon and Jos? Molina hit home runs. Mariano Rivera closes out the game with a perfect 9th inning, forcing Brian Roberts to ground out to 1B Cody Ransom for the last out. New York thus avoids being eliminated from the playoffs in their final game at the historic stadium.

2009: The last remaining portion of Tiger Stadium falls to the ground, completing demolition.
Where Greenberg, Cobb, Gehringer, Kaline, Trammell, and all the rest played: Flattened, and scraped clean. Terrible.
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2013: In one of their greatest comebacks in recent memory, the Tigers rally from a 6-0 deficit in the 9th inning and then win in the 12th on a walk-off RBI infield single by Omar Infante to cut their magic number to 2.

2015: Jeff Samardzija pitches a one-hitter against the Tigers in the opening game was the White Sox sweep a doubleheader, 2 - 0 and 3 - 2. Erik Johnson is the winner in the second game. The losses guarantee that the Tigers will finish with a losing record for the first time since 2008.

2018: Josh Hader breaks the single-season record set by the Tigers' John Hiller for strikeouts in a season by a left-handed reliever. The Major League record is still held by "The Monster" Dick Radatz with 181 Strikeouts in 1964.

Tigers players, coaches, and executives birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcmanfr01.shtml
Frank McManus 1904.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bogarjo01.shtml
John Bogart 1920.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Elden_Auker
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/aukerel01.shtml
Eldon Auker 1933-1938.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/John_McHale
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mchaljo01.shtml
John McHale 1943-1945, 1947-1948, General Manager 1957-1958.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/maccofr01.shtml
Frank MacCormack 1976.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Billy_Muffett
Billy Muffett coach 1985-1994.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Aurelio_López
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lopezau01.shtml
Aurelio Lopez 1979-1985.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Cecil_Fielder
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/fieldce01.shtml
Cecil Fielder 1990-1996.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/santape01.shtml
Pedro Santana 2001.

Tigers players and coaches who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Tony_Cuccinello
Tony Cuccinello coach 1967-1968.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Purnal_Goldy
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/goldypu01.shtml
Purnal Goldy 1962-1963.

Baseball Reference
 
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https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2019/09/20/the-saturday-survey-49/
THE SATURDAY SURVEY.
Totally Tigers

The Saturday Survey offers another way for readers to weigh in on a relevant topic. So here is a poll to gauge the pulse of our baseball-lovin? peeps.

As always, we welcome your comments, so please vote and then submit your reasons ( 4 sentences max!) for how you voted in the usual comment box. Don?t forget to come back later and view the results!

Given the Tigers? claim to be rebuilding, let?s chart their progress. If we remove all pitchers, as well as Miggy, from consideration, how many players from the current roster do you believe will still be part of the Tigers by April 2021?

Given a full year (2020) to develop, how many of the 8 positions will be filled for the 2021 year?
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https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/defensive-improvements-highlight-loss-to-sox
Defensive improvements highlight loss to Sox.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2019/9...-tyler-alexander-ronny-rodriguez-willi-castro
White Sox 5 - Tigers 3: Hey, the 9th inning was a little exciting.
The Tigers tried to put together a late rally, but came up short.
BYBTB

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/white-s...586#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=565586
Boxscore.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...o-white-sox-second-straight-night/2407308001/
Tigers are sharper but fall to White Sox for second straight night.
Detnews

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2019/09/tigers-cant-rally-vs-white-sox-lose-109th-game-4-takeaways.html
Tigers can?t rally vs. White Sox, lose 109th game: 4 takeaways.
Mlive
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2019/09/22/question-of-the-week-36/
QUESTION OF THE WEEK.
Totally Tigers

It?s time again to hear from our readers! Today is the day to let us know what you?re thinking on a selected topic.

Sunday is the one day of the week where we open up the comment parameters for you, so you can get those juices flowing.
Comments on THIS DAY ONLY can be expanded to a maximum of 8 sentences.
We can?t wait to get your thoughts on the following topic:

Next season, in the final year of his contract, Jordan Zimmermann will make another $25M. If he were removed from the rotation based on his awful 2019 season, the Tigers would have another hole to fill.
Based on all the factors and given the difficulty they had effectively filling holes left by Michael Fulmer, Tyson Ross and Matt Moore this season, how would you choose to use Zimmermann in 2020?
 
September 22 in Tigers and mlb history:

1911: Cy Young, at age 44, beats the Pittsburgh Pirates, 1 - 0, for his 511th and final major league victory.

1912: At Sportsman's Park against the Browns, Eddie Collins becomes the only player in major league history to steal six bases in one game for a second time. The Philadelphia Athletics' second baseman's feat of thievery has yet to be surpassed. It will be 79 years until another major leaguer, Otis Nixon, even ties Collins' mark.

1923: Hooks Dauss celebrated turning 34 by pitching a complete game shutout vs Boston in Fenway Park.
His teammates gave him the gift of run support, as they rolled to a 10-0 win. Cobb led the way with 4 hits. Heilmann chipped in with a HR.

1924: Charlie Gehringer makes his major league debut as a defensive replacement in the Tigers 9 - 1 win over the red sox.

1927: Tigers lose to the Yankees 8 - 7 on a walk-off home run by Babe Ruth, his 56th of the season on way to a record 60 home runs.

1936: The Detroit Tigers sweep the St. Louis Browns, 12 - 0 and 14 - 0, to record the biggest double shutout in major league history. Elden Auker and Tommy Bridges each pitch shutouts.
Game one the Tigers pound out 18 hits, three each from 2B Charlie Gehringer, C Birdie Tebbetts, and CF Al Simmons who also had 5 rbi. In the second game, of the 17 hits, 7 different Tigers had 2 hits apiece, with LF Pete Fox driving in 5 runs.

1940: Tigers lose to Cleveland, dropping their lead over the Indians to one game with 5 to play.
They will hang on to win the pennant by one game, their third pennant in seven seasons.

1950: A walk-off loss in Cleveland on a Joe Gordon home run off Hal Newhouser bounces the Tigers from first place for good. They won't return to contention until 1961.

1953: At Briggs Stadium, Rookie Al Kaline makes his first start at The Corner, collecting a single while playing centerfield in a 7-3 loss to the St. Louis Browns.

1967: Tigers sweep a doubleheader in Washington 8 - 3 and 4 - 0 to stay one game behind the Twins. Earl Wilson gets his league-leading 22nd win and Mickey Lolich pitches a 4-hit complete game.

1969: Willie Mays hits the 600th home run of his career. The historic homer off Mike Corkins of the Padres proves to be the game-winner in a 4 - 2 Giants victory at San Diego Stadium.

1977: The Chicago White Sox selected Bob Molinaro off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

1984: Tigers beat Yankees 6-0. Dan Petry pitches a 4-hit CG. Chet Lemon hits a 3-run HR. Tigers' record is 99-55.
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1986: Fernando Valenzuela of the Los Angeles Dodgers becomes the first Mexican pitcher to win 20 games in the majors, beating the Houston Astros, 9 - 2, while allowing just two hits. Teddy Higuera will be the second only three days later.

1987: Wade Boggs of the Boston Red Sox reaches the 200 hit mark for the fifth straight season in an 8 - 5 loss to the Detroit Tigers.

1987: The Cubs send Dickie Noles to the Tigers for a "player to be named later"...a month later he was sent back.

1993: Pitcher Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers faces just three Seattle batters before hurting his right elbow in what turns out to be the last appearance of his career. Ryan finishes with 324 wins, 5,714 strikeouts and seven no-hitters.

2000: The Detroit Tigers selected Eric DuBose off waivers from the Cleveland Indians.

2003: Tigers lose their 10th straight and 118th of the year to fall 80 games below .500.
They will rally to avoid the 1962 Mets' mark of 120 losses.
Detroit sets an American League record with its 118th loss, falling 12 - 6 to Kansas City. The 1916 Philadelphia Athletics (36-117) had held the record.

2015: Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra, winner of three MVP Awards who also holds the all-time record by playing in 14 World Series, passes away at age 90. He is just as famous for his aphorisms, and one of them is appropriate for the occasion: "You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours."

2016: In game 2 of a doubleheader the Tigers score on a wild pitch on an intentional walk and Justin Verlander wins his 15th of the season.

2017: Tigers announce they will not renew the contract of manager Brad Ausmus. A few years too late...

2018: On This Day we all said, "Thanks V-Mart."
https://twitter.com/i/status/1175808552998494208

George Springer hits three home runs and Justin Verlander records his 20th win of the season as Houston defeats the Angels, 13 - 5, to clinch the AL West title. Verlander will Strikeout 300 batters and Win his Second Cy Young Award.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hooks_Dauss
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/daussho01.shtml
Hooks Dauss 1912-1926. Tigers franchise leader in wins.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/walkefr01.shtml
Frank Walker 1917-1918.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ira_Flagstead
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/flagsir01.shtml
Ira Flagstead 1917, 1919-1923.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hostech01.shtml
Chuck Hostetler 1944-1945.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/moorean01.shtml
Anse Moore 1946.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/colemvi01.shtml
Vince Coleman 1997.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/klassda01.shtml
Danny Klassen 2003.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/leonar02.shtml
Arcenio Leon 2017.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Aurelio_López
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lopezau01.shtml
Aurelio Lopez 1979-1985.

Baseball Reference
 
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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...p-jeimer-candelario-but-hes-clock/2404749001/
Candy's last stand? Tigers haven't given up on Jeimer Candelario, but he's on the clock.
Detnews

Tigers third baseman Jeimer Candelario may be playing himself out of the Tigers? future plans. Thought to be the third baseman of the future when he was acquired from Chicago in 2017, Candelario has taken steps backward this season, with his wRC+ plummeting to just 67. The organization hasn?t completely given up hope yet, though the 25-year-old is running out of chances to rediscover his swing if he?s to stay on a Major League roster as a corner infielder. He hopes that playing winter ball after the season?something he wasn?t able to do last year because of a wrist injury?will help him get on the right track.
MLBTR
 
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