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http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sp...rs-cabrera-still-bothered-back-pain/99546264/
Tigers’ Cabrera still bothered by back pain.
Detnews

http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.s...on_back_injury.html#incart_river_mobile_index
Miguel Cabrera still recovering from back injury: 'I'll play when I'm ready'.
Mlive

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2017/03/23/detroit-tigers-miguel-cabrera/99545128/
Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera getting daily treatment on back.
Freep

http://m.tigers.mlb.com/news/article/220590920/miguel-cabrera-day-to-day-with-back-ailment/
Back tightness keeps Miggy day to day.
Tigers official site
 
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March 24 in Tigers and mlb history:

1900 - Detroit (American) purchased Dick Padden and Jack O'Brien from the Washington Senators for $1,750.

1933 - Babe Ruth, another victim of the Great Depression, takes a pay cut of $23,000 from his previous salary of $75,000.

1960 - Commissioner Ford Frick says he will not allow the planned Continental League to pool players in the Western Carolinas League, as it would violate existing major-minor league agreements.

1970 - Commissioner Bowie Kuhn orders a halt to the use of X-5 balls, which are much too lively for major league play.

1979 - The Chicago Cubs traded a player to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Steve Dillard.
The Chicago Cubs sent Ed Putman (March 24, 1979) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

1981 - The Detroit Tigers purchased Bill Fahey from the San Diego Padres.

1983 - The Texas Rangers traded Johnny Grubb to the Detroit Tigers for Dave Tobik.

1984 - The Detroit Tigers acquire relief pitcher Willie Hernandez and first baseman Dave Bergman from the Philadelphia Phillies for catcher John Wockenfuss and outfielder Glenn Wilson.
Hernandez will win the American League MVP and Cy Young awards after saving 32 games with an 1.92 ERA and 140.1 innings in 80 pitching appearances. His brilliant pitching during the postseason will help Detroit to the World Championship.

1984 - The Detroit Tigers release Rick Leach and Jim Smith.

1987 - The Detroit Tigers traded Dario Guzman (minors) to the Texas Rangers for Orlando Mercado.

1999 - The Detroit Tigers selected Jason Maxwell off waivers from the Chicago Cubs.

2002 - The Detroit Tigers traded Rich Gomez (minors) and Javier Cardona to the San Diego Padres for Damian Jackson and Matt Walbeck.

2014 - The Detroit Tigers signed J.D. Martinez as a free agent.

2014 - The Baltimore Orioles traded Alex Gonzalez to the Detroit Tigers for Steve Lombardozzi.

Tigers players, scouts, and front office birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Saul_Rogovin
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rogovsa01.shtml
Saul Rogovin 1949-1951.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dick_Kryhoski
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kryhodi01.shtml
Dick Kryhoski 1950-1951.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dick_Egan_(egandi02)
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/egandi02.shtml
Dick Egan 1963-1964, scout 2002-2006, assistant to GM 2007-present.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/José_Valverde
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/valvejo01.shtml
Jose Valverde 2010-2012.

Tigers players and announcers who passed away:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jerry_Robertson
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/roberje01.shtml
Jerry Robertson 1970.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Birdie_Tebbetts
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tebbebi01.shtml
Birdie Tebbetts 1936-1942, 1946-1947.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/George_Kell
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kellge01.shtml
George Kell 1946-1952, broadcaster 1959-1963, 1964-1996.

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Last week in this space, I debuted a new player-evaluation system that I called ?PRO,? which stood for ?Positive Relative Outcomes.? I say "stood" (past tense) because I?m changing the name. ?Positive Relative Outcomes? seemed too vague, and somehow that word ?relative? made me think of my in-laws. And there?s not much ?positive? there, believe me.

So PRO now stands for ?Percentage Ratio Outcome,? which gets my mother-in-law out of my mind and is more descriptive. The metric calculates the percentages of positive and negative outcomes per plate appearance (for batters) and per batter faced (for pitchers). This week, we look at pitchers.

As a reminder, for pitchers, positive outcomes are:
Soft- and medium-hit grounders and fly balls
Infield pop-ups
and Strikeouts.
And negative outcomes are:
Hard-hit grounders and fly balls
Line drives
Walks and HBP

For hitters, the reverses are true.
The median score for for good outcomes among starting pitchers is around 63%, with elite scores at 67% and up and bottom scores 58% and below. In 2016, Clayton Kershaw had good outcomes in 74% of his batters faced. The median score for bad outcomes is around 38%, with elite scores down around the low- to mid-30s and the worst pitcher performances at 41% bad or higher. Kershaw was at 28% in 2016.

To complete this work, there?s one extra step: I subtract the percentage of bad outcomes from the percentage of good outcomes, to get the PRO. To set a level, the top quintile of starting pitcher PRO trend in 2016 was +29% or higher, and the best was, no M. Night Shamyalan surprise twist here, Clayton Kershaw, at +46%. Which is frigging amazing, if you?re keeping score at home.

At the same time, I checked for pitchers who had declined year-over-year-over-year. Again to level-set, the 2016 bottom quintile was a PRO difference of +16% or lower betweengood outcomes and bad. By that measure, the worst starting pitcher in the review was Erik Johnson, who had six starts for the Padres at a measly +3%. (Memo to self: don?t draft Erik Johnson.)
I looked for pitchers who had good PRO trends over the last three seasons, from 2014-2016. The playing time requirement was 100 TBF in each of the three seasons, with at least one start in 2016. That left 133 starters for the review. Once again, the targets were those starters whose PRO grew from 2014 to 2015, and grew again in 2016.
As with the hitters, more than two-thirds of the starters did not show trends in either direction. That said, the test found 12 starters who improved their PRO each season, including:

Detroit RHP Jordan Zimmermann could be one of those ?last year?s bum? candidates who go for a few beans because drafters recall his 2016 stinkeroo and a poor spring training outing against Toronto.
But Zimmermann had a couple of decent early exhibition outings, and has declared that the injury to a nerve in his neck hasn?t been an issue.
Zimmermann?s Ks were way down last year, but he still managed to log a +3% PRO on the strength of improvements in five of the nine categories.
A small investment could have big payoffs in 2017, even if Zimmermann only returns to the $13 guy he was in 2015. But lest we forget, Zimmermann provided around $24 in both 2013-14 production, so he could be the kind of huge profitmaker who wins leagues.

BaseballHQ
 
http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2017/03/fresh_off_world_baseball_class.html#incart_river_index
Fresh off World Baseball Classic title, Ian Kinsler ready to go to work with Tigers.
Mlive

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2017/03/24/ian-kinsler-detroit-tigers-wbc/99578756/
Ian Kinsler 'ready to go' with Detroit Tigers after WBC win.
Freep

http://m.tigers.mlb.com/news/article/220715654/detroits-ian-kinsler-ready-for-opening-day/
Kinsler 'ready to go' after Classic's intensity.
Second baseman returning to lineup on Sunday.
Tigers official site
 
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