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http://www.blessyouboys.com/2016/2/...igers-podcast-jd-martinez-voice-of-the-turtle
Bless You Boys Tigers Blog Podcast: The Voice of the Turtle, Episode 20: Save us, baseball. 2 Hours 20 minutes.

Topics in this week's episode include:
What do we call J.D. Martinez's new contract?
Al Avila's master plan for baseball domination.
The Tigers' best, worst, and most underrated moves of the winter.
Which team will most certainly win the AL Central because we picked them to do so.
The players we will have to Google during spring training.
This whole prospect thing? Kind of fun.
Listener questions!
Where Calvin Johnson would play if he were a Tiger.
How awful sports media is, and why BYB is awesome.
Spring training and your slow descent into madness.

Contents:
3:33 - Rounding the Bases: Martinez!
21:08 - Warming in the Pen: let?s grade the Tigers? offseason.
1:10:34 - High and Tight: prospects and spring training invitations.
1:39:28 - Into the Mob Scene at Home: NOW WHAT?
2:03:40 - The 7th Inning Kvetch: sports media coverage (mostly) sucks.
 
February 11 in Tigers and mlb history:

1974 - A total of 48 players exercise their rights to settle their contracts through the new arbitration procedure.

1997 - General Mills, the makers of Wheaties breakfast cereals, unveil three new Jackie Robinson boxes to be sold in stores nationwide. Robinson will be the first athlete to be honored on all three varieties of Wheaties: Original Wheaties, Honey Frosted Wheaties, and Crispy Wheaties 'n' Raisins.

Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/George_Alusik
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/alusige01.shtml?redir
George Alusik 1958, 1961-1962.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/smithwi02.shtml
Willie Smith 1963.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ben_Oglivie
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/oglivbe01.shtml?redir
Ben Oglivie 1974-1977.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Tom_Veryzer
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/veryzto01.shtml?redir
Tom Veryzer 1973-1977.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/beamotr01.shtml
Trey Beamon 1998.

from Baseball Reference
 
https://www.detroitathletic.com/blog/2016/02/11/castellanos-third-baseman-detroit-tigers/
Will Nick Castellanos take a step forward in 2016 for the Tigers?
Detroit Athletic

With two full seasons under his belt, Nick Castellanos approaches his ?platform year??his final pre-arbitration season?with questions hanging over his head. Will the long-heralded Tiger prospect become the star he was supposed to be? Can he learn how to play his position?

While other Tiger regulars, including key cogs such as Miquel Cabrera, Ian Kinsler, Victor Martinez, and Justin Verlander, are well into the portions of their careers when age-related performance declines can be expected, Castellanos is still surprisingly young?just twenty-four. But he?s been a fixture at the hot corner for what seems like a long time already. And when some older players go into an inevitable decline, Castellanos is one of the small number of young regulars who will have to improve to offset any lost production from the veterans.

There are real questions whether Castellanos, who was a left fielder in the minors, can adequately handle third base defensively. He made a few small strides last year, but he still makes many routine plays look challenging. He doesn?t have the sure hands nor the quick reflexes necessary at the hot corner. His arm is adequate if he makes the plays?but that?s a big if.

Third base is a position where you might sacrifice offense for good defense, but that can?t be the case for such a poor defender as Castellanos. He?s supposed to turn into a third baseman of the other type?a hitter whose bat is strong enough to make up for his poor fielding. The problem is that he hasn?t yet proven he is that kind of hitter.

If and when he does, you can envision his career path with the Tigers quite clearly?when Victor Martinez retires (which won?t be long), and Miguel Cabrera starts to wear down, Miggy can become the DH, and Castellanos can be moved to first base, where his defensive limitations won?t matter so much. (Detroit will have to find another third baseman). Then when Miggy retires, Castellanos would take over at DH?the position he?s most suited for.

That assumes Castellanos can fill the bill as a middle-of-the-order RBI machine?but he hasn?t yet shown that to be the case. He hit eleven homers in 2014 and fifteen in 2015. Playing almost every day and usually batting sixth or seventh behind a very potent middle of the order, he drove in sixty-six runs the first year and seventy-three the second. His OPS improved from .700 to .722. But his strikeouts increased from 140 to 152 while his walks jumped only slightly, from thirty-six to thirty-nine.

A continuing slight improvement of this sort is not likely to catapult Castellanos into a star player ever. And there is no sign in his tool set or his mechanics that he is likely to do much better than that. Baseball Prospectus rates his chances of a breakout season at 5 percent but his chances of improving at 53 percent. Even that doesn?t exactly inspire confidence. If you don?t expect an improvement at his age, when would you ever?

Luckily, Nick C is just one minor cog in an offensive machine whose first five spots should be very productive again. So there is not an extreme amount of pressure on him now. But it?s going to be building over this year and years to come.

When he does make contact, he is learning to hit all over the field?which is sort of the Tigers? club ethos. That?s a good sign. But either his contact rate has to increase, his power has to grow, or (least likely of all) he needs to become at least an adequate fielder. This may be the season we get a more definitive answer on his future.
 
February 12 in Tigers and mlb history:

1920: The National League votes 6-2 for a one-man commission while the American League votes 6-2 for the status quo. Chairman Garry Herrmann resigns, stating his belief that no club owner should serve on the governing board. When the two leagues cannot agree on a chairman, it is left to the league presidents to decide disputes.

1924 - The National League announces it will join the American League in awarding a thousand dollars to the player selected by the Baseball Writers Association of America as the Most Valuable Player.

1932 - George Weiss is named head of the Yankees' new minor league system. Weiss will eventually become the general manager of the Yankees, and along with manager Casey Stengel, will oversee an unprecedented five consecutive World Championships from 1949 to 1953. Weiss will eventually gain election to the Hall of Fame in 1971.

Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/arndtha01.shtml
Harry Arndt 1902.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/harrian02.shtml
Andy Harrington 1925.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Pat_Dobson
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dobsopa01.shtml?redir
Pat Dobson 1967-1969.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Chet_Lemon
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lemonch01.shtml?redir
Chet Lemon 1982-1990.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/knottga01.shtml
Gary Knotts 2003-2004.

from Baseball Reference
 
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