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January 26 in Tigers and mlb history:

1931: The International League accepts the open draft imposed by the major leagues. Until this time, the top minor leagues could control their players and refuse to sell them.

1949: The Detroit Tigers selected Tony Lupien off waivers from the Chicago White Sox.

1951: The Baseball Writers Association of America vote sluggers Mel Ott and Jimmie Foxx into the Hall of Fame. Ott hit .304 with 511 home runs and 1860 RBI; he managed the New York Giants from 1942 to 1948. Foxx was a .325 hitter with 534 home runs and 1922 RBI.

1962: New York Yankees outfielders Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle sign contracts with Columbia Pictures to appear in Safe at Home!, a movie that is to be shot during spring training. The movie will star Maris and Mantle as themselves and feature cameos by Whitey Ford and Ralph Houk.

1963: Major League Baseball's Rules Committee increases the size of the strike zone.
The zone will stretch from the top of the batter's shoulders to the bottom of the knees.
The committee hopes the return to the 1950s strike zone will result in a decrease in runs scored. The results will exceed the committee's expectations, and after the "Year of the Pitcher" in 1968, the strike zone will be tweaked again to give the hitters a break.

1989: The tougher balk rules initiated last season are rescinded and are replaced by the pre-1988 rules.

1995: Major League Baseball players and owners are told by President Clinton to resume bargaining and reach an agreement to resolve the strike by February 6th.

2006: Fidel Castro confirms that his country will play in the 2006 World Baseball Classic in Cuba's first official reaction to the U.S. government's decision allowing the communist country to participate.

2009: The Detroit Tigers signed Timo Perez as a free agent.

2012: The Detroit Tigers signed Prince Fielder as a free agent to a $214 Million 9 year contract.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/spenctu01.shtml
Tubby Spencer 1916-1918.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gelbech01.shtml
Charlie Gelbert 1937.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bob_Nieman
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/niemabo01.shtml
Bob Nieman 1953-1954.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/César_Gutiérrez
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gutiece01.shtml
Cesar Gutierrez 1969-1971.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/schuri01.shtml
Rick Schu 1989.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pughti01.shtml
Tim Pugh 1997.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/torrean02.shtml
Andres Torres 2002-2004.

Tigers players, coaches, and managers who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/philled01.shtml
Eddie Phillips 1929.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Steve_O'Neill
https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/o'neist01.shtml
Steve O'Neill coach 1941, manager 1943-1948.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ray_Oyler
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/oylerra01.shtml
Ray Oyler 1965-1968.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/laabsch01.shtml
Chet Laabs 1937-1939.

from Baseball Reference
 
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Tigers GM Al Avila said this week that his team could still make some additions to the 40-man roster, MLB.com?s Jason Beck writes. The GM didn?t cite a specific area of need, indicating that he could have room to add a starter, a position player or a reliever. What?s clear, though, is that the Tigers don?t plan on making any kind of move that would come with long-term ramifications.

?I?m not trying to come across as saying we?re going to try to pick up a pitcher here, a pitcher there and it?s going to make us so much better that we have a chance to win a championship,? Avila stated. ?At this point, we might try to pick up a player here or there to, quite frankly, get us through the season, and hopefully have a guy have a bounceback and be able to make a trade later on and acquire a younger player, a piece here, a piece there, to make ourselves better little by little.?

Comments like that, of course, make the MLBPA and agents alike bristle, as they?re the type of non-competitive remarks that have often been cited as a reason for the historically slow free-agent market.
The Tigers have spent a bit of cash this offseason, signing Leonys Martin and Mike Fiers to Major League deals, but they won?t come anywhere near their previous levels of spending as they embark on what figures to be a lengthy rebuilding effort.
MLBTR
 
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