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Tigers fans about to riot over AJ Hinch disrespect in Manager of the Year voting.
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Tigers' AJ Hinch finishes third in American League Manager of the Year voting.
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Detroit Tigers' A.J. Hinch finishes 3rd in 2024 American League Manager of the Year voting.
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Tigers add three right-handed relievers to 40-man roster; Eddys Leonard DFA'd.
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Detroit Tigers protect 3 pitching prospects from Rule 5 draft, make cuts for roster space.
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Tarik Skubal wins AL Cy Young unanimously after Triple Crown campaign.
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Tarik Skubal wins AL Cy Young Award on 28th birthday.
Tarik Skubal wins the American League Cy Young Award unanimously on his 28th birthday after compiling 228 strikeouts and recording a 2.39 ERA.
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Here are the Cy Young Award vote totals.
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Tarik Skubal wins the AL Cy Young Award.
The pitching Triple Crown champ earns the game’s highest accolade for pitchers.
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Tarik Skubal Wins American League Cy Young Award.
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Tarik Skubal's unanimous Cy Young win sends clear message to Tigers (and Cleveland).
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Tigers dominant ace Tarik Skubal earns American League Cy Young Award with unanimous vote.
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Detroit Tigers' Tarik Skubal unanimously wins 2024 American League Cy Young Award.
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Which Detroit Tigers have won the AL Cy Young award, along with Tarik Skubal?
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Tigers’ Tarik Skubal unanimously wins 2024 AL Cy Young.
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November 21 in Tigers and mlb history:

1888: The Pittsburgh Alleghenys purchased Ned Hanlon from the Detroit Wolverines for $2,500.

1889: The National League issues its reply to the Players League manifesto. Claiming that the League saved baseball in 1876 and that under the reserve rules players' salaries have "more than trebled," the NL denounces the Brotherhood movement as "the efforts of certain overpaid players to again control [baseball] for their own aggrandizement. . . to its ultimate dishonor and disintegration."

1893: Ban Johnson is named president, secretary, and treasurer of the recently reorganized Western League. Under Johnson's leadership the league will prosper and eventually become the American League.

1900: Given a ten-year contract to control the Baltimore franchise, John McGraw says he intends to be there a long time, and wants to lease grounds in Baltimore where he can stay. He'll be a manager for 32 more years, but not in Baltimore.

1905: Hall of Famer Freddie Lindstrom was born this day in Chicago, IL
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1920: Legendary St. Louis Cardinals 1b and LF Stan Musial is born in Donora, Pa. "The Man" will go on to play 22 years in St. Louis, setting many N.L. and ML records on his way to election to the Hall of Fame in 1969.



1933: Philadelphia Phillies right fielder Chuck Klein, who won the Triple Crown after hitting .368 with 28 home runs and 120 RBI, is sold to the Cubs for $125,000 and veterans Mark Koenig and Harvey Hendrick, and rookie Ted Kleinhans. Hendrick will play one year with the Phillies, while Koenig and Hendrick quickly go to the Reds. Klein, who also led the National League in hits (223), doubles (44), extra-base hits (79), total bases (365), slugging percentage (.602), on base percentage (.368) and OPS (1.025), and finished second in runs (102) and fourth in steals (15), is the only player in major league history to be traded after a Triple Crown season. Klein will have two-plus seasons at Wrigley Field before returning to Philadelphia in 1936.

1934: The Yankees purchase Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco of the Pacific Coast League. The son of Italian immigrants will be one of three DiMaggio brothers to play in the major leagues. Dom and Vince are the others.

1949: Bill Veeck sells the Cleveland Indians for $2.2 million to a local syndicate headed by Ellis Ryan. Hank Greenberg will be general manager.

1956: Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Don Newcombe wins the National League MVP; in a few days, he will become the first-ever Cy Young Award winner.

1960: Bob Scheffing signs to manage the Detroit Tigers after the job is turned down by Casey Stengel. He will manage Tigers to 101 wins in 1961.

1962: The Pittsburgh Pirates trade the player they call "Dr. StrangeGlove" 1B Dick Stuart and P Jack Lamabe to the Boston Red Sox for P Don Schwall and C Jim Pagliaroni.

1969: Future Hall of Famer Ken Griffey, Jr. is born in Donora, PA, the son of Ken Griffey, Sr., himself an All-Star outfielder who will not make his major league debut until 1973. The two will be the first father/son duo to play together in the major leagues, in 1990, but the younger Griffey will greatly surpass his father's accomplishments, receiving a record-high percentage of the vote when elected to Cooperstown in 2016.


1970: The Sporting News announces Gold Glove Award selections. Chicago White Sox shortstop Luis Aparicio wins the ninth and final honor of his career. Aparicio has now won a gold glove in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

1972: Boston Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk is the first-ever unanimous choice for American League Rookie of the Year. Fisk hit 22 home runs and led the AL East Division with a .293 batting average.
Pitcher Jon Matlack of the New York Mets is named the National League winner.

1973: Pete Rose wins the National League MVP Award in a controversial vote, edging out Willie Stargell. Rose led the NL with 230 hits and won his third batting crown with a .338 mark. Stargell led the league with 44 home runs, 119 runs batted in, and a .646 slugging percentage while batting .299.

1977: Baltimore Orioles first baseman Eddie Murray is named American League Rookie of the Year.

1983: The Cincinnati Reds purchased Wayne Krenchicki from the Detroit Tigers.

1985: The Detroit Tigers signed Doug Flynn as a free agent.

1989: The Detroit Tigers released Frank Williams.

1989: Kevin Mitchell of the Giants, who led the major leagues with 47 home runs and 125 RBI, is named National League Most Valuable Player.

1991: Atlanta Braves third baseman Terry Pendleton, who hit .319 with 22 home runs and 86 RBI, wins the National League MVP Award.

2000: Citing statistics to a U.S. Senate panel, Commissioner Bud Selig states it is time for "sweeping changes" in the game's economic make-up, raising the possibility of a work stoppage after the current contract expires on October 31, 2001.

2000: The Detroit Tigers signed Alejandro Freire as a free agent.
2000: The Detroit Tigers signed Jarrod Patterson as a free agent.

2002: In the earliest-scheduled season opener in major league history, the Oakland Athletics and Seattle Mariners will start the season in Tokyo, Japan, on March 25, 2003. The two-game series will feature recent American League Rookies of the Year Kazuhiro Sasaki (2000) and Ichiro Suzuki (2001).

2011: The Tigers' Justin Verlander adds the American League Most Valuable Player Award to the Cy Young Award he won a week ago after a dominating season in which he led Detroit to the AL Central title. Verlander is the first pitcher to win the award in the AL since reliever Dennis Eckersley in 1992, and the first starting pitcher to do so since Roger Clemens in 1986*. Verlander secures 13 of 28 first-place votes to finish ahead of Boston's Jacoby Ellsbury, Toronto's Jose Bautista and New York's Curtis Granderson in a bunched-up vote.
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2011: The Detroit Tigers signed Jerad Head as a free agent.

2013: The Detroit Tigers signed Pat McCoy as a free agent.

2013: Michael Weiner, executive director of the MLBPA, dies of brain cancer at age 51. The architect of the 2011 Collective Bargaining Agreement and highly respected by players, owners and Major League Baseball top executives alike, he is succeeded by former player Tony Clark.

2014: To mark the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's enrollment at the university, UCLA announces it will retire the number 42 in his honor across all sports in which varsity teams compete and renames its athletic facilities the "Jackie Robinson Athletics and Recreation Complex."

2017: The Commissioner's office issues its ruling in the investigation of improprieties committed by the Atlanta Braves by willingly circumventing international signing rules from 2015 through 2017. Former General Manager John Coppolella receives a lifetime ban, and 12 prospects in the organization are declared free agents. The Braves are also forbidden from signing any prospect for a bonus of more than $10,000 in the 2019-20 signing period, their bonus pool will be cut by 50% the following year, and they will lose a third-round selection in the 2018 amateur draft while sanctions against other employees are expected to follow. The scam involved secretly diverting bonuses declared for certain prospects towards others governed by signing pool limits, in order to make it appear as if the team had not exceeded these limits.

2022: The Detroit Tigers signed Brendon Davis as a free agent.
2022: The Detroit Tigers signed Miguel Diaz as a free agent.

2023 The Detroit Tigers signed Garrett Hill as a free agent.
2023: The Detroit Tigers signed Ryan Vilade as a free agent.

Tigers players birthdays:

Charlie Bennett Detroit Wolverines N.L. 1881-1888.

Gus Hetling 1906.

Bill Morrisette 1920.

Paul Richards 1943-1946.

Daryl Patterson 1968-1971.

Rick Peters 1979-1981.

Quintin Berry 2012.

Tigers players and announcers who passed away:

Buck Morrow 1932.

Earl Cook 1941.

Hack Miller 1944-1945.

Mel Ott announcer 1956-1958.

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TRIBUTE TO TARIK SKUBAL.
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After winning Cy Young, Tarik Skubal already looking forward: 'Never been more motivated'.
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Tarik Skubal's climb to AL Cy Young Award a testament of perseverance and his own magic.
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Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal 'worked really hard' to become MLB's best, says workout buddy.
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6 games that crowned Detroit Tigers Tarik Skubal as 2024 AL Cy Young Award winner.
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2024 Non-Tender Candidates.
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November 22 in Tigers and mlb history:

1883: New York Gothams owner John B. Day proposes a resolution to prohibit a team from signing a player who has broken the reserve clause of his contract. This resolution, eventually adopted by both the American Association and National League, effectively changes the reserve clause from a device to protect owners from their own greediness to a vindictive weapon to be used against uncooperative players.

1888: The National League adopts a salary classification plan that puts all players into five categories with a standard salary for each ranging from $1,500 to $2,500. The scheme is vehemently opposed by the Brotherhood.

1934: The Chicago Cubs acquire future Hall of Fame infielder Fred Lindstrom and pitcher Larry French from the Pittsburgh Pirates for outfielder Babe Herman and pitchers Guy Bush and Jim Weaver.

1952: Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Harry Byrd, who won 15 games and posted and a 3.31 ERA, is selected American League Rookie of the Year by BBWAA voters. Byrd will be the last Athletics player to win the Award until Jose Canseco in 1986.

1954: The Detroit Tigers drafted Ben Flowers from the Boston Red Sox in the 1954 rule 5 draft.

1954: The Pittsburgh Pirates draft outfielder Roberto Clemente from the AAA roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Although Clemente hit only .257 for the Montreal Royals last season, he will become a Hall of Fame member with the Pirates.

1957: In a controversial vote, Mickey Mantle barely edges Ted Williams, 233 to 209, to win the American League MVP Award.
Mickey Mantle is named the American League MVP for the second year in a row! (34 HR - 94 RBI - .365 BA - 146 BB - .512 OBP).
Mantle batted .365 with 34 home runs for the first-place New York Yankees, while Williams, of the third-place Boston Red Sox, led the AL with a .388 average and 38 home runs, as well as a stunning .731 slugging percentage. Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey fumes at the news, noting that two Chicago writers listed Williams in the ninth and tenth places on their ballots.
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1960: The American League proposes that both leagues expand to nine teams in 1961 and begin interleague play. There will be expansion in the American League in 1961, but interleague play will not arrive until 1997.

1961: Frank Robinson becomes the first Cincinnati Reds player in 21 years to win the National League MVP Award, taking 219 of 224 possible votes.

1967: Minnesota Twins second baseman Rod Carew wins the American League Rookie of the Year Award. Receiving 19 of 20 first place votes, Carew easily outdistances Reggie Smith of the Boston Red Sox.

1967: The Detroit Tigers traded players to be named later to the Houston Astros for future Hall Of Famer Eddie Mathews. The Detroit Tigers sent Leo Marentette (December 10, 1968) and Fred Gladding (November 22, 1967) to the Houston Astros to complete the trade.

1968: Cincinnati Reds catcher Johnny Bench edges out New York Mets pitcher Jerry Koosman to win the National League Rookie of the Year Award. Bench becomes the third member of the Reds in six years to be named the top rookie.

1977: Andre Dawson of the Montreal Expos wins the National League Rookie of the Year Award by one vote over Steve Henderson of the New York Mets. Dawson hit .282 with 19 home runs and 65 RBI, while Henderson had a batting line of .297, 12, 65.

1978: Detroit Tigers second baseman Lou Whitaker wins the American League Rookie of the Year Award with 21 of 28 first-place votes over Paul Molitor of the Milwaukee Brewers. Whitaker will be the youngest AL Rookie of the Year until Mike Trout passes him 34 years later.
"This is the biggest moment of my career," the rookie says, accurately.

1983: The Players' Association fires executive director Kenneth Moffett after barely a year in the job and chooses Donald Fehr as his successor.

2005: The Detroit Tigers signed Bobby Seay as a free agent.

2010: Joey Votto of the Cincinnati Reds wins the 2010 National League Most Valuable Player Award. He defeats fellow 1B Albert Pujols of the Cardinals who had beaten him in voting for both the Gold Glove and Silver Slugger awards, by getting 31 of 32 first-place votes in recognition of his leadership role on a young Reds team that reached the postseason for the first time in 15 years. Carlos Gonzalez of the Rockies finishes third.

2017: According to a report in the magazine Forbes, Major League Baseball revenues in 2017 grew for the 15th consecutive year and passed the $10 billion threshold for the first time. The growing value of television rights and increasing ratings are the primary reasons behind this growth, in spite of a slight decline in attendance at ballparks.

2022: The winners of the Comeback Player of the Year Award are Justin Verlander, who won the AL Cy Young Award after missing almost two full seasons due to Tommy John surgery, and Albert Pujols, who recently announced his retirement after an excellent final season with the Cardinals.

Tigers players and coaches birthdays:

Harry Rice 1928-1930.

Dick Bartell 1940-1941, coach 1949-1952.

Joe Nathan 2014-2015.

Austin Romine 2020.

Tigers players who passed away:

Pat Dobson 1967-1969.

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FIVE FOR FRIDAY.
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Things are getting ready to heat up in baseball. The World Series ended just 3 weeks ago, followed by a mandatory “quiet period” in which teams could make no moves outside of their organization. And during the week of awards, MLB requests that teams not interrupt the proceedings.
It all started in earnest on November 5th, 2.5 weeks ago. Teams are currently focusing on getting their rosters in order, determining their needs. Trades and signings will happen soon.
On November 4, contract options were picked up – or not. The Tigers, as expected, did not pick up Casey Mize’s $3.1 mill option and he will return to the regular arbitration process.

For the first time in years, no players had opt out contracts with Detroit.
As well, the 4th was the day for qualifying offers to be made. The Tigers had no players who were eligible.
It is this time of year that is crucial to building the roster. Here are the dates to keep in mind as we follow Scott Harris’ moves.
 
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