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January 30 in Tigers and mlb history:

1917: Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander announces he is ready to retire from professional baseball and join a semipro team if his salary demands are not met. Alexander wants a three-year contract at $15,000 per year.

1923: The Boston Red Sox continue to work on improving the New York Yankees, sending future Hall of Fame pitcher Herb Pennock, who is entering the prime of his career, to New York in exchange for infielder Norm McMillan, pitcher George Murray, outfielder Camp Skinner, and $50,000.

1926: The Major League Rules Committee agrees that pitchers may have access to a rosin bag. On February 8, the American League will refuse to permit its use, but on April 28th, the league will give in and allow a rosin bag on the field, but discourage its use by players. The Committee also discusses the possible elimination of the intentional walk, a topic that has come up before, by making the pitcher throw to the batter. Calling a balk on the catcher if he steps out of his box has not eliminated the intentional walk as intended. No action is taken however.

1936: The new owners of the Boston Braves conduct a survey of newspaper reporters, asking them to come up with a new nickname for the franchise. The reporters select the Bees, which will be used through the 1940 season. The new name fails to catch on, and the team will decide to switch back to "Braves".

1940: The St. Louis Browns traded Billy Sullivan to the Detroit Tigers for Slick Coffman.

1942: Hank Greenberg re-enlists in the armed forces.

1948: Pitcher Herb Pennock collapses and dies from a heart attack. Pennock, who was 53, had been serving as the general manager of the Philadelphia Phillies since 1944. His untimely demise will be a catalyst for his election to the Hall of Fame later this year.

1953: Peter J. McGovern becomes the Little League's first full-time president and the league's office is moved to Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

1954: The New York Giants trade Shot Heard 'Round the World hero Bobby Thomson and catcher Sam Calderone to the Milwaukee Braves for pitchers Johnny Antonelli and Don Liddle, infielder Billy Klaus, and $50,000 cash. Antonelli will go 21-7 and will lead the National League with a 2.30 ERA.

1958: Commissioner Ford Frick announces that players and coaches, rather than the fans, will vote on selections for the All-Star Game. The vote will not return to the fans until 1970, when Commissioner Bowie Kuhn reverses Frick's action. The decision is a reaction to alleged ballot box stuffing by Cincinnati fans before last year's All-Star Game.

1964: The United States Senate Subcommittee on Monopolies begins hearings on baseball.

1975: The New York Mets purchased Jerry Moses from the Detroit Tigers.

1977: Edward W. Stack is elected president of the Hall of Fame. He succeeds Paul Kerr, who is retiring.

1978: Former pitcher Addie Joss and former executive Larry MacPhail are voted into the Hall of Fame by the Special Veterans Committee.

1978: The Detroit Tigers traded Mike Burns (minors), Frank Harris (minors) and cash to the Boston Red Sox for Steve Dillard.
1978: The Montreal Expos purchased Tito Fuentes from the Detroit Tigers.

1978: Commissioner Bowie Kuhn cancels the recent trade that sent pitcher Vida Blue from the Oakland Athletics to the Cincinnati Reds for first baseman Dave Revering and $1.75 million in cash. Believing that the Athletics did not receive adequate compensation, Kuhn recommends that the trade be restructured. On February 25th, Oakland will acquire Revering in a different trade, this time for pitcher Doug Bair. On March 15th, the Athletics will once again trade Blue, this time to the San Francisco Giants for seven players and $400,000. Blue will win 18 games for the Giants this season.

2003: Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr. joins his father Cal Sr. by becoming the 40th member of the Orioles Hall of Fame. Ripken Jr. is elected in his first year of eligibility by a unanimous vote of the media covering the team. The formal ceremony will be take place on September 6th, which marks the eighth anniversary of the night he broke the 56-year-old record of 2,130 consecutive games played set by Lou Gehrig.

2017: Commissioner Rob Manfred issues a ruling in the case of an employee of the St. Louis Cardinals caught for hacking into the scouting database of the Houston Astros. The Cards are fined $2 million, which they must pay to Houston, and also surrender two top picks in the upcoming amateur draft to the Astros. The guilty former employee, Chris Correa, incurs a lifetime ban. This is on the top of the 46-month prison sentence and $279,000 fine he received after pleading guilty to federal charges last July.

2020: The Detroit Tigers signed Jordy Mercer as a free agent.

2023: The Detroit Tigers signed Jonathan Davis as a free agent.
2023: The Detroit Tigers signed Caesar Hernandez as a free agent.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Walt_Dropo
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dropowa01.shtml
Walt Dropo 1952-1954.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Sandy_Amorós
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/amorosa01.shtml
Sandy Amoros 1960.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/stegmda01.shtml
Dave Stegman 1978-1980.

Baseball Reference
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2024/01/29/didnt-see-this-coming/
DIDN’T SEE THIS COMING.
Totally Tigers

What perfect timing. Last week, I asked readers the question:

Should the Tigers buy out and extend the contracts of any young players?

The majority of voters (45%) said “Yes, but there are no candidates this year.”

What a silly group we are! It didn’t occur to us that we should have considered signing a prospect who has yet to play a single major league game to a 6-9 year contract.

The news was conveniently released on Sunday when the rest of Detroit-centric sports fans were focused on a football game. It’s a well-known strategy used by PR types to soften the social media frenzy and disperse the reactions more gently over a period of days.

Because it’s controversial. Because most fans aren’t going to understand it.

So before we dig in, let’s review the contract just awarded to Colt Keith. It starts this year and runs through 2029. And it all but guarantees that he will be this year’s starting 2Ber.

There are an additional 3 years with all of them being club options, not player ones. Scott Harris is only doing club option contracts, thankfully.

The details are as follows:
 
Why second base for Colt Keith?

Scott Harris: "We think Colt can play second and third. We think he has the chance to be an average or better second baseman. ... We also think it's going to save a little bit of the load on his arm and allow him to play the position really well."

Scott Harris said the Tigers won't close the door on Colt Keith playing third base in the future, but he will play second base in 2024.

Harris: "The primary focus for us this year, given the makeup of our team, is going to be at second base."
 
January 31 in Tigers and mlb history:

1898: Known racist Cap Anson is released after 19 years as first baseman/manager with the Chicago National League teams. Strong-minded Cap, with a record of 1,288 victories and five NL pennants, was enormously popular in Chicago. Former infielder Tom Burns takes over as manager of the teams which is now dubbed the "Orphans" by reporters.

1919: Future Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson is born to Jerry and Mallie Robinson in Cairo, Georgia. Robinson will become the first black player in 20th century major league history when he debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
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1927: National League President John Heydler rules that Rogers Hornsby cannot continue to both hold stock in the St. Louis Cardinals and play for the New York Giants. Seemingly oblivious, the Cards' board of directors, meeting in St. Louis, votes stockholders a 10% dividend, earning Hornsby $2916. for his 1167 shares.

1928: The Detroit Tigers traded Rip Collins to Toronto (International) for Vic Sorrell.

1931: Hall of Fame shortstop Ernie Banks is born in Dallas, Texas. Banks will make his debut with the Chicago Cubs in 1953 and hit 512 home runs during a 19-year career.
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1941: Paul Waner, released by the Pittsburgh Pirates last December, signs with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Waner will play 11 games before moving to the Boston Braves, but he will return to Brooklyn in 1943.

1947: Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan is born in Refugio, Texas. Ryan will make his major league debut in 1966 with the New York Mets, kicking off a major league record 27-year career. He will win 324 games with the Mets, California Angels, Houston Astros, and Texas Rangers.
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1952: The Hall of Fame elects two new members: Harry Heilmann, with 203 votes, and Paul Waner with 195. Waner, a .333 career hitter, rapped out 3,152 hits and struck out just 376 times in 9,459 career at-bats.
Heilmann was similarly skilled with the bat, winning four batting titles with the Detroit Tigers and finishing his career with a .342 average.
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1953: The New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, and Boston Red Sox retaliate at Bill Veeck, forcing the St. Louis Browns to play afternoon games to avoid sharing TV revenues. Veeck takes his plan to the American League office to make them pay. The plan is rejected.

1959: Former major league star Joe Cronin succeeds Will Harridge as president of the American League. A Hall of Fame shortstop who played for the Pirates, Senators and Red Sox, Cronin batted .301 over a 20-year playing career. He signs a seven-year pact and will remain in office until his retirement in 1973.

1962: San Francisco Giants star Willie Mays signs the largest contract in major league baseball, reportedly $90,000 for the upcoming season. Mays will earn every penny in 1962, when he bats .304 with 49 home runs and 141 RBI and helps the Giants to the National League pennant.

1965: Pitcher Pud Galvin is chosen for Hall of Fame induction by the Special Veterans Committee. Galvin had 20 victories in 10 out of 14 seasons and won 46 games in both 1883 and 1884 for the Buffalo Bisons of the National League.

1965: Masanori Murakami, the first Japanese player in the major leagues, says he will not play for the San Francisco Giants this season, instead returning to the Nankai Hawks. This ends a long dispute over the rights to Murakami and no Nippon Pro Baseball player will try to come to the US for almost 30 years due to the legal and cultural barriers on both sides.

1969: The National Association approves the use of the Designated Hitter for the International, Eastern, Texas and New York-Pennsylvania leagues. The rules vary slightly for each league. The Texas League will be the first to use the DH, in April.

1969: The American and National leagues agree to try an experimental rule change in spring training using a designated pinch hitter, but they don't agree on the implementation. The AL tells the teams to use the DPH when they are the home team; the NL gives the home manager the choice of which rules to use, but the visiting manager has to agree. The Mets, Giants, and Cardinals say that they will not use the rules, and the Astros and Reds follow suit.

1971: The Special Veterans Committee selects seven men for enshrinement in the Hall of Fame: former players Jake Beckley, Joe Kelley, Harry Hooper, Rube Marquard, Chick Hafey, and Dave Bancroft, as well as executive George Weiss. A number of this year's choices will later be derided as some of the worst ever made by the Veterans Committee.

1977: Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, and Al Lopez are elected to the Hall of Fame by the Special Veterans Committee. Sewell batted .312 over 14 seasons with the Indians and Yankees. Rusie won 246 games over nine seasons from 1889 to 1898. Lopez won four fielding titles in 19 years as a catcher, but it is his .584 winning percentage in 17 seasons as a manager that got him into Cooperstown.

1980: The Houston Astros sign free agent second baseman Joe Morgan. Houston was the first major league team the two-time National League MVP played with before he was traded to the Cincinnati Reds and became a force in the Big Red Machine.

1986: The Detroit Tigers signed Bill Campbell as a free agent.

1994: The California Angels sign free agent outfielder Bo Jackson to a one-year contract worth $1 million.

1996: Ken Griffey, Jr. becomes the highest-paid major league player by signing a four-year, $34 million contract with Seattle.

2000: Atlanta Braves huge asshole reliever John Rocker is suspended from baseball until May 1st by Commissioner Bud Selig for his racial and ethnic remarks in an article published in Sports Illustrated last month. Rocker is also fined an undisclosed amount and ordered to attend sensitivity training.

2001: A story in The Wall Street Journal quotes players Monte Irvin, Sal Yvars and Al Gettel, three former members of the 1951 New York Giants, as admitting that they stole catchers' signs at the Polo Grounds to help the club overtake the 13 1/2-game lead of the Brooklyn Dodgers and win the National League pennant. Except for Yvars, all the participants will deny using the system during the three-game playoff with the Dodgers. According to the report, Bobby Thomson, whose three-run, ninth-inning home run in Game Three of the playoff won the pennant for the Giants, did not, however, steal a sign before hitting his historic home run.

2008: The Detroit Tigers released Tony Giarratano.

2018: OF Mookie Betts of the Red Sox wins the first salary arbitration filing to be decided this off-season and will earn $10.5 million, a significant raise over his previous salary of $950,000.

2020: The Detroit Tigers signed Kennys Vargas as a free agent.

2020: Curtis Granderson announces his retirement.

Tigers players and coaches birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/George_Burns_(burnsge02)
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/burnsge02.shtml
George Burns 1914-1917.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hargrpi01.shtml
Pinky Hargrave 1928-1930.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Duke_Maas
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/maasdu01.shtml
Duke Maas 1955-1957.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hank_Aguirre
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/aguirha01.shtml
Hank Aguirre 1958-1967.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/powerte01.shtml
Ted Power 1988.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Fred_Kendall
Fred Kendall coach 1996-1998.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ossie_Vitt
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/vittos01.shtml
Ossie Vitt 1912-1918.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gibsosa01.shtml
Sam Gibson 1926-1928.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cantrgu01.shtml
Guy Cantrell 1930.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Harry_Chiti
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/chitiha01.shtml
Harry Chiti 1960-1961.

Baseball Reference
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2024/01/30/watercooler-wednesday-120/
WATERCOOLER WEDNESDAY.
Totally Tigers

Over the weekend, Scott Harris signed Colt Keith to a 6-9 year contract. Keith has yet to play in Detroit but ranks app. in the low-to-mid 20’s in the national rankings.

It’s a team-friendly deal but it does come with some risk. Keith’s salary runs from $2.5 – $5 mill per year guaranteed and with 3 additional years at club option.

The terms of his contract and details may be found here:
DIDN’T SEE THIS COMING
What do you think of this contract?

What do you think about the Colt Keith contract?

1. What a smart move!

2. Still trying to wrap my brain around it.

3. Don't like it.

VOTE
 
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