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March 4 in Tigers and mlb history:

1884: National League owners agree to provide two separate team benches to minimize fraternizing among opposing players during games.

1886: The National League meets and adopts the stolen base and the four foot by seven foot pitcher's box. But the NL retains seven balls for a walk and rejects the American Association's rule giving a batter first base on a hit by pitch.

1891 - Clarence Arthur "Dazzy" Vance is born in Orient, Iowa. At age 31, Vance will become the dominant National League pitcher of the 1920s. After a decade in the minors, Vance will join the Brooklyn Robins in 1922.
Named National League MVP in 1924, he will pitch a no-hitter the next year, lead the NL in wins twice, in earned run average three times, and be the only pitcher to top the NL in strikeouts seven consecutive seasons. Vance will be elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America in 1955, with 205 votes out of 251 ballots.

1907: A judgment of $52,000 is awarded to the Baltimore club from Brooklyn. When Baltimore left the National League in 1900, Brooklyn agreed to pay $40,000 for the franchise but never did. The award includes interest.

1910: Sam Crawford checking out his bats.
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1912: Ground is broken on a new ballpark in Brooklyn, New York. The $650,000 ballpark is scheduled to be called "Washington Park", but will be renamed for Brooklyn Dodgers president Charles Ebbets. Ebbets Field will open officially on April 9, 1913 and will serve as the Dodgers' home until 1957.

1913: The New York Yankees become the first major league team to conduct spring training outside of the United States, when they begin the spring in Bermuda, where is projected a series of exhibition games.

1925: John Montgomery (Monte) Ward dies in Augusta, Georgia, just a day after his 65th birthday. During his illustrious career in the majors, Ward hit for a .371 batting average twice, won 40-plus games as a pitcher twice, including the second perfect game in history, and was be the captain and manager of the first and original New York Giants. Ward will gain election to the Hall of Fame in 1964.

1934: Tigers hold their first spring workout in their first year in Lakeland, Florida.
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1941: Grace Comiskey, widow of J. Louis Comiskey, is elected president of the Chicago White Sox. Her husband died on July 18, 1939.

1948: Stan Musial ends his holdout with the St. Louis Cardinals and signs a one-year contract for $31,000. Musial, who in 1947 batted .312 with 19 home runs and 95 RBI, will lead the National League with a .376 batting average and 131 RBI this season.

1967: Bullet Joe Rogan dies in Kansas City, Missouri, at age 77. One of the greatest pitchers in Negro league baseball, Rogan threw a devastating fastball which he complemented it with a dizzying array of other pitches. He also played the outfield when he wasn't pitching, and in 1922 led the Negro National League with 16 home runs. Rogan will receive Hall of Fame honors in 1998.

1972: The Texas Rangers, formerly the Washington Senators, trade former two-time Cy Young Award winner Denny McLain to the Oakland Athletics for pitchers Jim Panther and Don Stanhouse.
McLain, who lost a league-leading 22 games pitching for the Senators in 1971, will last only five starts in Oakland before being traded to the Atlanta Braves for Orlando Cepeda.

1982: The San Francisco Giants traded Enos Cabell and cash to the Detroit Tigers for Champ Summers.

1984: Two outstanding defensive players, shortstop Pee Wee Reese and catcher Rick Ferrell, are elected to the Hall of Fame by the Special Veterans Committee. Reese hit .269 in 16 seasons with the Dodgers while Ferrell batted .281 with just 28 home runs in 18 seasons for the Browns, Red Sox, and Senators.

1994: Michael Jordan comes to bat for the first time in a Chicago White Sox uniform. Playing in a spring training game, Jordan taps back to Texas Rangers pitcher Darren Oliver, who tags out the former National Basketball Association star. Jordan will eventually give up baseball after one season in the minor leagues and return to the NBA.

1998: Larry Doby, who became the first black man to play in MLB's American League in 1947 and played 18 games for Tigers in 1959, is voted into Hall of Fame.

2004: Commissioner Bud Selig announces that Major League Baseball will celebrate "Jackie Robinson Day" in every ballpark on April 15, the anniversary of the debut the first black player in major league history. Robinson's uniform number "42" was retired for all time in a ceremony at Shea Stadium in April of 1997 to mark the 50th anniversary of his achievement.

2008: The Detroit Tigers signed Melvin Mercedes as an amateur free agent.

2010: Major League Baseball organizes a symposium on "Science Behind Anti-Doping" at its New York City headquarters. The meeting shares information about the latest developments in testing and involves both leading scientists and officials responsible for labor policy from the United States Olympic Committee, the NHL, the NFL, the NBA, the PGA and the NCAA, as well as the US Anti-Doping Agency, all of which are members of the "Partnership for Clean Competition". MLB President Bob DuPuy gives the keynote address. The conference puts a particular focus on developments in the detection of human growth hormone.

2014: The Detroit Tigers signed Wil Ledezma as a free agent.

2015: The Detroit Tigers released Joel Hanrahan.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Les_Mueller
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/muellle01.shtml
Les Mueller 1941, 1945.

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Mark Wagner 1976-1980.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bocachi01.shtml
Hiram Bocachica 2002-2003.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hannaja01.shtml
Jack Hannahan 2006.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Nicholas_Castellanos
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/casteni01.shtml
Nick Castellanos 2013-2019.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/browelo01.shtml
Louis Brower 1931.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kressch01.shtml
Chuck Kress 1954.

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https://www.blessyouboys.com/2020/3...strikeout-rate-niko-goodrum-jeimer-candelario
JaCoby Jones might be the Tigers? all-time strikeout artist.
Three current Tigers are whiffing at a blistering pace.
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Since the Detroit Tigers joined the American League as a charter franchise in 1901, just 179 players in franchise history have logged at least 1,000 plate appearances. Center fielder JaCoby Jones is just 18 trips to the plate shy of that milestone. That?s the good news.

On the not-so-bright side, Jones is on track to have a higher strikeout percentage than any other Tigers player with at least 1,000 career plate appearances with the team ? spanning 119 seasons of Tigers baseball. Through his 982 career plate appearances at the major league level, Jones is striking out 31.9 percent of the time. Former Tigers slugger Rob Deer is the only other player in this category to surpass the 30 percent mark, at 31.5 percent in 1,354 career plate appearances.

Niko Goodrum is not far behind Jones in both categories, with a 28.0 percent strikeout rate in 964 plate appearances, the fourth-highest among players in this category. Third baseman Jeimer Candelario has struck out 24.9 percent of the time in 1,111 plate appearances with the club, which ranks seventh ? soon to be ninth, once Jones and Goodrum play a few more games ? among those in the Tigers millennium club. That?s one-third of the Tigers? projected lineup for the 2020 season, whiffing at a historic pace.

A thousand plate appearances doesn?t seem like much. Just two seasons qualifying for the batting title would do it [Ed.: I?m still blown away that only 179 Tigers players have ever hit this mark]. But the trio of young Tigers are about to become members of the club.

Players have reached the 1,000 plate appearance milestone at about the same pace over the history of the franchise, with 88 of the 179 players reaching the mark since 1961, but the highest strikeout rates have almost all been recorded in the most recent years.

With few exceptions, the players who played during the first sixty years of the Tigers? existence recorded lower strikeout rates than those who have played since. There are a few pitchers who hit often enough to make the list, but very few players who played primarily in the past 60 years have struck out under 10 percent of the time. Placido Polanco stands out among recent Tigers players with a very low strikeout ratio, at just 5.6 percent. Victor Martinez squeaks into the top half of the list at 10.4 percent.

The Tigers led the major leagues with a strikeout rate of 26.4 percent in 2019. That?s more than all 15 National League teams, who still have pitchers batting on a regular basis. Detroit?s lineup was also dead last in the majors with just 582 runs scored. That could improve if they would put the ball in play more often. It?s harder to score runs when your team has so many plate appearances where there is no chance to advance a runner, even while recording an out.
 
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