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December 20 in Tigers and mlb history:

1921: At the Major League meetings, the American League votes to return to the best-of-7 World Series; the National League votes to keep the 5-of-9. Judge Landis casts the deciding vote, and the 4-of-7 format is reinstated.

1926: Commissioner Judge Landis meets with Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, and Smokey Joe Wood about allegations of a fixed game in 1919.
Dutch Leonard, the man who leveled the accusations, does not attend out of fear that Cobb will hurt him.

1926: The World Champion Cardinals trade Rogers Hornsby to the Giants for Frankie Frisch and Jimmy Ring. The trade gets complicated when the "Rajah" refuses to sell his 1,167 shares of the team stock back to the Redbirds at the asking price.

1933: The Washington Senators traded Goose Goslin to the Detroit Tigers for John Stone.

1940: For a reported $42,000, A's manager Connie Mack buys a controlling interest in the club from the Shibe family.

1946: The Tigers released catcher Paul Richards, who will become a very successful manager.

1973: Siding with the A's, American League president Joe Cronin rules the Yankees cannot sign manager Dick Williams. The Yankees had announced a deal with the Oakland skipper two days earlier.

1980: Unless contracts are tendered to certain veterans by today's deadline, the Basic Agreement requires they be allowed to become free agents. In a major blunder, the Red Sox will miss the deadline, permitting All-Stars Fred Lynn and Carlton Fisk to be eligible for free agency.

1985: The Detroit Tigers released Milt Wilcox.

1986: The Detroit Tigers released Darrell Evans.

1989: Detroit releases former ace reliever—and 1984 Cy Young Award and MVP winner—Willie Hernandez.

1990: The media blasts the Tigers for their decision to part ways with Ernie Harwell.
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Mitch Albom: "Just in time for Christmas. Hey, guys. Why not punch Santa in the face while you’re at it?"

1990: Lance McCullers of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1991: The Detroit Tigers signed Dan Gladden as a free agent.
1991: Andy Allanson of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
1991: Johnny Paredes of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1993: Gary Thurman of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
1993: Bob MacDonald of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1994: The Detroit Tigers signed Franklin Stubbs as a free agent.

1995: The Detroit Tigers signed Omar Olivares as a free agent.

1999: The Detroit Tigers signed Giomar Guevara as a free agent.
1999: The Detroit Tigers signed Jim Poole as a free agent.
1999: The Detroit Tigers signed Kevin Tolar as a free agent.

2001: The Jean Yawkey Trust announces all the partners have unanimously voted to sell 100 percent of the Red Sox, a family-owned business since 1933, to a group of investors led by Florida Marlins owner John Henry who also has a one percent share of the Yankees and is the managing partner-in-waiting of the Sox. The price tag, rumored to be $600+ million, doubles the largest amount ever spent to buy a team.

2001: The Detroit Tigers signed Juan Acevedo as a free agent.
2001: The Detroit Tigers selected Endy Chavez off waivers from the Kansas City Royals.
2001: Deivi Cruz of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2007: The Detroit Tigers signed Anastacio Martinez as a free agent.

2010: The Detroit Tigers signed Argenis Diaz as a free agent.

2017: The Rays send 3B Evan Longoria, arguably the greatest player in team history, to the Giants in a trade for four players, the most prominent of whom is OF Denard Span. Longoria comes with a risk as he is due to make $86 million over the next five seasons, but his acquisition fills a huge hole as the Giants got the worst offensive production from their third basemen among all major league teams last year.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Paddy_Baumann
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/baumapa01.shtml
Paddy Baumann 1911-1914.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jonesde01.shtml
Deacon Jones 1916-1918.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dowdsn01.shtml
Snooks Dowd 1919.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/huffau01.shtml
Aubrey Huff 2009.

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https://www.mlb.com/news/the-10-biggest-mlb-trades-of-the-2010s
The 10 biggest MLB trades of the 2010s. Verlander trade here.
MLB.com

Would each team do it again? Of course the Astros would.
If the Tigers had known none of the prospects would look good in two years, they certainly wouldn't have, though it's worth wondering if the issue was in the players they acquired or "the ability of their farm system to help them improve".
 
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https://tht.fangraphs.com/with-2020-hindsight-we-look-at-the-201-s-2/
With 2020 Hindsight, We Look at the 2010s.
HardballTimes/Fangraphs

Mike Trout tops pretty much every leader board except scandals. To give you an idea: From 2010-2019, Trout had by far the best cumulative OPS, at exactly 1.000. From 1910-1919, Ty Cobb was the leader, at .998.

Take Miguel Cabrera. What with his last couple of mediocre years with an awful Detroit team, you may forget he was the 20-teens? only consecutive-year Most Valuable Player. (Trout won three times.) He led baseball in 10-year batting average and was top 10 in home runs and RBIs, the traditional triple crown stats.

Miguel Cabrera had the most intentional walks (144).
Traditional stats leaders included Miguel Cabrera (.317 batting average).
 
https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/zack-godley-tigers-deal
Godley, Tigers have incentive-filled deal.
Tigers official site

More garbage.
Zack Godley was a pitcher seemingly on the rise with the D-backs a few years ago and a 15-game winner in 2018. He will head to Spring Training in a couple of months hoping to regain that trajectory with the Tigers, who signed the right-hander to a Minor League contract on Friday.
Godley?s deal includes a $1.5 million base salary and another $1.5 million in potential incentives.

odley entered this past season with a 33-25 record, 4.41 ERA, 3.91 FIP and 444 strikeouts over 444 2/3 innings. His 30 wild pitches in 2017 and '18 were concerning, but he looked very much like a big league starter. Then came '19, and by season?s end, Godley was not only out of the rotation but out of a job.

While Godley?s curveball and sinker became the increasingly prominent pitches in his arsenal -- they accounted for more than 75 percent of his pitches in 2019 according to Statcast -- opposing hitters adjusted. His swing-and-miss percentage off the curveball dropped, and his slugging percentage off the pitch rose from .305 to .396. He allowed a .620 slugging percentage off his sinker, and his strikeout rate plummeted to 6.8 per nine innings.

Godley had a 3-5 record and a 6.39 ERA in nine starts and 18 relief appearances for the D-backs before they designated him for assignment on Aug. 5. The Blue Jays claimed him off waivers and put him in their bullpen, where he allowed seven runs on 15 hits over 16 innings before he was DFA'd Sept. 3 and elected free agency five days later.
 
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