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https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2019/11/22/the-saturday-survey-58/
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!

The Hot Stove season is here! But for the Tigers, will it be lukewarm or cold? What do you think the team will do in order to strengthen their roster?

1. Sign 1-2 free agents to one-year low 7-figure contracts.

2. Trade current Tigers in order to fill some holes.

3. Focus on signing journeymen to minor league contracts with the hope of making the team.

4. Wait and scour the waiver wire.

5. Some combo of #2, #3 and #4.

6. Nothing.

7. Something else.

Vote.
 
Lefty reliever Blaine Hardy has begun to attract interest on the free agent market, per MLB.com?s Jason Beck (via Twitter). Beck names the Twins as one team that has shown interest, though multiple organizations appear to be in on the ex-Tiger.
Hardy, 33 in mid-March, was drafted by the Royals, but spent the entirety of his MLB career with the Tigers. After Detroit signed him to a minor league deal following the 2012 season, Hardy would make his major-league debut during the 2014 season, pitching to a 2.54 ERA across 38 appearances.
Outside the 70 appearances he made in 2015, Hardy has been up-and-down most seasons, making between 21 and 39 appearances in the majors every year from 2016 to 2019.
In all, he amassed 233 appearances across 6 seasons with the Tigers (13 starts in 2018) with a 3.73 ERA/4.11 FIP and pretty even splits between lefties and righties.
MLBTR
 
November 24 in Tigers and mlb history:

1922: The Washington Senators traded Ray Francis to the Detroit Tigers for Chick Gagnon.

1948: The Detroit Tigers drafted Dale Long from the Boston Red Sox in the 1948 minor league draft.

1953: The Brooklyn Dodgers sign the relatively unknown Walter Alston to a one-year pact as their manager for next season. Alston, who had served as the skipper of the Dodgers' Triple-A affiliate in Montreal, replaces Chuck Dressen after Pee Wee Reese turns down the job. Alston will manage the Dodgers in Brooklyn and Los Angeles over the next 23 seasons, winning 2,040 games and four World Championships.

1964: St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Ken Boyer, who hit .295 with 24 home runs and 119 RBI, is selected as the National League Most Valuable Player.

1973: Pitcher Bob Gibson wins the last of his nine Gold Gloves, and Joe Morgan wins the first of his five at second base.

1976: Joe Morgan outpoints Cincinnati Reds teammate George Foster to win his second straight National League MVP Award. Morgan hit .320 with 27 home runs, 111 RBI, 113 runs, 60 stolen bases, and led the NL in slugging percentage (.576) and OPS (1.020).

1976: The California Angels sign free agent second baseman Bobby Grich. He becomes the first of three free agents that owner Gene Autry will sign during the off-season. Don Baylor and Joe Rudi will eventually join Grich in California.

1977: Former Major League manager Mayo Smith dies at the age of 62. Smith skippered the Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds and Detroit Tigers during a nine-year managerial career, but gained most of his fame when he guided the Tigers to the 1968 World Championship.

1982: Cal Ripken, Jr., who hit .264 with 28 home runs as a shortstop and third baseman for the Baltimore Orioles, is named American League Rookie of the Year. His consecutive games played streak is in its infancy at 118 games.

1997: The Boston Red Sox purchased Jimmy Hurst from the Detroit Tigers.

1998: The Detroit Tigers signed Rickey Cradle as a free agent.
1998: The Detroit Tigers signed Nelson Cruz as a free agent.
1998: The Detroit Tigers signed Felipe Lira as a free agent.
1998: The Detroit Tigers signed Joe Siddall as a free agent.

2003: The Detroit Tigers signed Ariel Prieto as a free agent.

2009: Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals is the unanimous choice as winner of the National League MVP Award. It is the third time Pujols wins this honor, having done so previously in 2005 and 2008.

2013: The Detroit Tigers signed Eduardo Sanchez as a free agent.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcmacsa01.shtml
Sam McMackin 1902.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ralph_Comstock
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/comstra01.shtml
Ralph Comstock 1913.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Billy_Rogell
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rogelbi01.shtml
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/1d28602a
Billy Rogell 1930-1939.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Walter_Wilson
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wilsowa01.shtml
Walter Wilson 1945.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jim_Northrup
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/northji01.shtml
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/7d747d5d
Jim Northrup 1964-1974, broadcaster 1985-1994.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jeimer_Candelario
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/candeje01.shtml
Jeimer Candelario 2017-present.

Tigers players and managers who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/owenfr01.shtml
Frank Owen 1901.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/moharjo01.shtml
John Mohardt 1922.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Mayo_Smith
https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/smithma01.shtml
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/60134c32
Mayo Smith manager 1967-1970.

Baseball Reference
 
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OPEN MIKE!
Totally Tigers

It?s the last Sunday of the month, folks, which means it?s your day! This is the day for you to be heard. Today is the one day during the month (normally) where you get the opportunity to comment on the Tiger topic of your choosing.

This is the one day of the week where we open up the comment parameters for you, so you can really get those juices flowing. Comments on THIS DAY ONLY can be expanded to a maximum of 8 sentences. So pick a topic and let us hear from you! What?s on your minds?
 
Mickey Lolich slashed .110/.215/.121, with no home runs, in 1,017 regular-season plate appearances. He homered his first time up in the 1968 World Series.
Fangraphs
 
Tigers Introduce Pitching Analytics to Player Development.

The Detroit Tigers are a rebuilding team with a plethora of promising pitching prospects. As of a few weeks ago, they also have a director of pitching development and strategies, and a coordinator of player development analytics. Each is a new position within the organization, and both are a step in the right direction. Dan Hubbs was hired to fill the first of those roles, Jordan Wergiles the last.

Who are Hubbs and Wergiles, and what will be their primary responsibilities? I asked those questions to Al Avila during the recently completed GM Meetings.

?Dan came from the University of Southern California, where he was the head baseball coach,? answered Avila. ?Before that he was the pitching coach there for 12 years. He comes with a good knowledge of the technology that?s being used now. He understands the analytics that can help a pitcher get better. Basically, his challenge is to set up our pitching system.?

Addressing Wergiles ? a recent Wake Forest University graduate who?d been interning for the Tigers ? Avila spoke of the organization?s attempts to keep up with an ever-changing game.

?There are obviously some things that your average instructor, or pitching coach? those guys aren?t analysts,? said the GM. ?Those guys don?t work with numbers. They work with human beings, so it?s more of, ?Hey, here is what the numbers are telling us about this pitcher.? [Wergiles] can be deciphering that to the coaches, so that they can make those adjustments with the pitchers.?

Requests to speak to Wergiles and Hubbs about their new roles were declined by the Tigers.

Avila name-checked another of his new hires ? several have been announced ? when asked to elaborate on the ramping up of his team?s analytical efforts.

?It?s a full-blown situation where you?re working with strength and conditioning, you?re working with trainers, you?re working with biomechanics,? said Avila. [Director of performance science] Georgia Giblin has got all the gadgets to put on the players, to test them for fatigue and whatnot. Then there is the video and what the numbers from Rapsodo are saying. It?s a pretty involved process. We?ll have all these people working as a unit, with Dan Hubbs in charge.?

That?s on the pitching side. The Tigers have also brought on board a new director of player development whose responsibilities will skew heavily to the offensive side of the ball. Kenny Graham spent the last four years as Milwaukee?s minor league hitting coordinator.

?It?s the same as what led to our pitching changes,? Avila explained. ?Kenny?s expertise is in hitting. He?ll set up our hitting systems, just like Dan Hubbs will be challenged with the pitching. Kenny?s first order of business is going to be hitting, and from there it will spread out to the other areas of player development. We?ll have a system for basically everything.?

Fangraphs
 
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