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December 19 in Tigers and mlb history:

1928: Senators player-manager Bucky Harris is traded to the Tigers for infielder Jack Warner. The future Hall of Famer will replace George Moriarty (68-86, 6th place) as the Motor City skipper.

1934: The Yankees send five players to San Francisco as part of the payment for Joe DiMaggio. He will play another season in the Pacific Coast League and will report at the end of 1935.

1934: Al Kaline is born in Baltimore, Md. Al becomes a High School, and Legion Ball Phenom playing 2 and at times 3 games in a day. Kaline is signed by Ed Katalinas a day after graduating from high school and signs for $35K.
Al sits on the bench in 1953 between Johnny Pesky and Fred Hutchinson going in as a defensive replacement.
In 1955 Kaline becomes the youngest player to win a batting title, also leading the A.L. in Hits with 200 and Total Bases with 321.
A complete 5 tool ballplayer, Kaline becomes the greatest defensive outfielder in American League history, winning 10 Gold Gloves for fielding excellence. After 5 full years and 85 assists, opposing teams stop running on Kaline's legendary throwing arm considered to be the Most Accurate in Major League History. Kaline is voted to 18 All-Star games batting a cool .324 12 for 37 with 2 Homeruns.
Al is the runnerup in the A.L. MVP ballot in 1955 and 1963, winning the prestigious Sporting News A.L. Player of the Year Award those seasons, and a 3rd place finish in the MVP ballot in 1956 and 10 years in the top 10 voting for MVP over his career.
In the 1968 World Series, Kaline?s only appearance in the Fall Classic, he batted .379, hit two home runs and drove in eight to help Detroit knock off the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games.
Injuries during several seasons keep Kaline from hitting 30 or home runs and several more seasons of 100+ Runs and 100+ RBI, missing 450 games to various injuries. Despite missing so many games, Kaline becomes the 12th member of the 3,000 Hit Club, and and the 10th player to become a first ballot Hall Of Famer in 1980.
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1936: Mickey Cochrane checks out of the hospital and goes to a Wyoming ranch to recover his health.

1968: Tigers slugger legally changes his name from William Wattison Horton to Willie Horton.

1983: The Tigers sign free agent slugger Darrell Evans, who hit .277 with 30 home runs for the Giants last season.
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1986: After finding no other clubs interested in signing him, free agent pitcher and 20-game winner Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with the Tigers while at the same time accusing the major league owners of collusion against free agents.
Morris had offered to sign a one-year contract, with salary to be determined by an arbitrator, with either the Yankees, Angels, Twins, or Phillies, but was turned down by all four.

1990: Tigers stun the baseball world with press conference announcing that 1991 season will be Ernie Harwell's last with the team.
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1990: The Detroit Tigers signed Mike Dalton as a free agent.
1990: The Detroit Tigers signed Dan Petry as a free agent.

1991: The Detroit Tigers signed Mike Walker as a free agent.

1992: Mark Carreon of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2001: The Detroit Tigers signed Adam Riggs as a free agent.

2002: The Detroit Tigers signed Seth Greisinger as a free agent.
2002: The Detroit Tigers signed Warren Morris as a free agent.

2003: The Detroit Tigers signed Fernando Vina as a free agent.
2003: The Detroit Tigers signed Rondell White as a free agent.

2005: The Detroit Tigers signed Max St. Pierre as a free agent.

2012: The Detroit Tigers released Adam Wilk.

2016: The Detroit Tigers signed Travis Blackley as a free agent.
2016: The Detroit Tigers signed Jake Brigham as a free agent.
2016: The Detroit Tigers signed Brendan Ryan as a free agent.
2016: The Detroit Tigers signed Logan Watkins as a free agent.
2016: The Detroit Tigers signed Thad Weber as a free agent.

2018: Major League Baseball and the Cuban Baseball Federation reach a historic deal that will allow players from the island to be scouted and signed without having to defect. This recognizes the fact that there should be no going back to the days when players had to put their life and the well-being of their families at risk, and deal with unsavory criminal elements, in order to come to the United States. It creates a situation that is akin to that which prevailed before the Cuban Revolution in 1959. However, the Administration of President Donald Trump will kill the deal on April 8th as part of a policy of maintaining as hard a line as possible in dealing with Cuban authorities.

2018: The Detroit Tigers signed Eduardo Paredes as a free agent.
2018: The Detroit Tigers signed Chris Smith as a free agent.

2019: The Detroit Tigers signed Zack Godley as a free agent.

Tigers players, coaches, announcers, and executives birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Al_Kaline
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kalinal01.shtml
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Al-Kaline/
https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/kaline-al
Al Kaline 1953-1974, announcer 1975-2001, spring training coach 1975-2020, executive 2002-2020.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Tony_Taylor
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tayloto02.shtml
Tony Taylor 1971-1973.

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Clay Parker 1990.

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Mark Woodyard 2005.

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Rony Garcia 2020-2022.

Tigers and Negro Leagues Detroit Stars Players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/griggar01.shtml
Art Griggs 1918.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Pete_Hill
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hillpe99.shtml
https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=hill-01pet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hill
Pete Hill Detroit Stars 1919-1921. Equally mentioned as date of death 11/19 and 12/19.

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Seven players from Tigers earn bonuses in 2023 from $50 million pre-arbitration pool
 
December 20 in Tigers and mlb history:

1881: Hall of Famer Branch Rickey was born this day in Stockdale, OH.
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1900: Hall of Famer Gabby Hartnett was born this day in Woonsocket, RI.
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1921: At the Major League meetings, the American League votes to return to the best-of-7 World Series; the National League votes to keep the 5-of-9. Judge Landis casts the deciding vote, and the 4-of-7 format is reinstated.

1926: Commissioner Judge Landis meets with Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, and Smokey Joe Wood about allegations of a fixed game in 1919.
Dutch Leonard, the man who leveled the accusations, does not attend out of fear that Cobb will hurt him.

1926: The World Champion Cardinals trade Rogers Hornsby to the Giants for Frankie Frisch and Jimmy Ring. The trade gets complicated when the "Rajah" refuses to sell his 1,167 shares of the team stock back to the Redbirds at the asking price.

1933: The Washington Senators traded Goose Goslin to the Detroit Tigers for John Stone.

1940: For a reported $42,000, A's manager Connie Mack buys a controlling interest in the club from the Shibe family.

1941: Hal Newhouser marries Beryl Steele. They will be married 57 years until Hal's death in 1998.

1946: The Tigers released catcher Paul Richards, who will become a very successful manager.

1965: "Sportsman of the Year: Sandy Koufax" (Sports Illustrated.
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1973: Siding with the A's, American League president Joe Cronin rules the Yankees cannot sign manager Dick Williams. The Yankees had announced a deal with the Oakland skipper two days earlier.

1980: Unless contracts are tendered to certain veterans by today's deadline, the Basic Agreement requires they be allowed to become free agents. In a major blunder, the Red Sox will miss the deadline, permitting All-Stars Fred Lynn and Carlton Fisk to be eligible for free agency.

1985: The Detroit Tigers released Milt Wilcox.

1986: The Detroit Tigers released Darrell Evans.

1989: Detroit releases former ace reliever?and 1984 Cy Young Award and MVP winner?Willie Hernandez.

1990: The media blasts the Tigers for their decision to part ways with Ernie Harwell.
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Mitch Albom: "Just in time for Christmas. Hey, guys. Why not punch Santa in the face while you?re at it?"

1990: Lance McCullers of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1991: The Detroit Tigers signed Dan Gladden as a free agent.
1991: Andy Allanson of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
1991: Johnny Paredes of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1993: Gary Thurman of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
1993: Bob MacDonald of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1994: The Detroit Tigers signed Franklin Stubbs as a free agent.

1995: The Detroit Tigers signed Omar Olivares as a free agent.

1999: The Detroit Tigers signed Giomar Guevara as a free agent.
1999: The Detroit Tigers signed Jim Poole as a free agent.
1999: The Detroit Tigers signed Kevin Tolar as a free agent.

2001: The Jean Yawkey Trust announces all the partners have unanimously voted to sell 100 percent of the Red Sox, a family-owned business since 1933, to a group of investors led by Florida Marlins owner John Henry who also has a one percent share of the Yankees and is the managing partner-in-waiting of the Sox. The price tag, rumored to be $600+ million, doubles the largest amount ever spent to buy a team.

2001: The Detroit Tigers signed Juan Acevedo as a free agent.
2001: The Detroit Tigers selected Endy Chavez off waivers from the Kansas City Royals.
2001: Deivi Cruz of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2007: The Detroit Tigers signed Anastacio Martinez as a free agent.

2010: The Detroit Tigers signed Argenis Diaz as a free agent.

2017: The Rays send 3B Evan Longoria, arguably the greatest player in team history, to the Giants in a trade for four players, the most prominent of whom is OF Denard Span. Longoria comes with a risk as he is due to make $86 million over the next five seasons, but his acquisition fills a huge hole as the Giants got the worst offensive production from their third basemen among all major league teams last year.

2022: In a stunning turn of events, moments before a scheduled press conference in which the Giants are set to introduce Carlos Correa, with whom they reached agreement on a 13-year, $350 million contract on December 13th, the team backs away from the deal because of an undisclosed problem that turned up during the normally routine physical examination. Immediately, the Mets swoop in and within hours reach a deal with Correa for 12 years and $315 million - also subject to Correa passing a physical exam, which will once again reveal concerns that scuttle the deal.

2022: The Detroit Tigers signed Michael Lorenzen as a free agent.

Tigers players birthdays:

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Paddy Baumann 1911-1914.

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Carroll Deacon Jones 1916-1918.

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Snooks Dowd 1919.

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Aubrey Huff 2009.

Tigers players and coaches who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/whillja01.shtml
Jack Whillock 1971.

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Kimera Bartee 1996-1999, coach 2021.

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Ray Herbert 1950-1951, 1953-1954.

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WATERCOOLER WEDNESDAY.
Totally Tigers

Jake Rogers, acquired in the infamous Justin Verlander trade, is going into just his 2nd full year as a catcher. He had 2 partial seasons followed by a year out of the game because of Tommy John surgery.

He is in his first year of salary arbitration and a free agent in 3 years. He will be 29 this season.

Rogers is a neutral defender, neither really saving or costing the Tigers runs defensively. He is considered to be a ?defense first? catcher and works well with his pitchers. In today?s game, the defensive talents of a catcher greatly outweigh their offensive skills.

Offensively is where he struggles. While he has slugging power, there are issues with too many strikeouts, too few walks and trouble getting on base. Both he and Javier Baez get on base the least out of all the regular lineup players.

His career offensive totals are .205/.277/.417 which are below average.

In the meantime, the Tigers have created and accelerated a catcher development program. Signing multiple catchers for development and depth while creating a program to speed their development. New coaches who specialize in working with them have been brought in to assist.

Historically, the Tigers have been unable to develop solid catchers in their system. Currently, Dillon Dingler is the closest to reaching Detroit but he, too, is struggling at the plate which has delayed his debut.

The Tigers were also rumored to have received the Dodgers? top-ranked catching prospect if the Eduardo Rodriguez trade had gone through.

All of this info has hinted that the Tigers want something more from their #1 catcher.

But what does this mean for Rogers? future? What do you think?

What is Jake Rogers' future with the Tigers?

1. He is the long-term solution to catcher.

2. It is still too early to say.

3. He is the short-term solution to catcher.

VOTE
 
We know it's highly unlikely but we can't help but fantasize about the potential here. Especially given that there are rumors that the Detroit Tigers have quietly put out feelers re trading Javy Baez.

And when you consider that PoBO Scott Harris came from the Giants, it gives him an "in" with Zaidi. But there are 4 significant roadblocks to overcome.

Javy's 10-team no trade clause. His $98 mill salary (much of which the Tigers would have to eat). Baez's offensive woes. And that the Tigers don't have someone who would easily be able to take over at SS.

Totally Tigers
 
December 21 in Tigers and mlb history:

1911: Future Hall of Fame catcher Josh Gibson is born in Buena Vista, Georgia. Although record-keeping in the Negro Leagues is somewhat nebulous, Gibson will become the leading home run hitter in all of black baseball. His legendary power will earn him the nickname, "The Black Babe Ruth." Gibson began his pro career at age 18 with the Homestead Grays before becoming a star with the Pittsburgh Crawfords.
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1940: Chicago writers name Cleveland Indians shortstop Lou Boudreau as the outstanding rookie in the major leagues. Boudreau will be honored at the annual January banquet. The Rookie of the Year Award won't be created until 1947, however.

1944: Official National League statistics published today show Brooklyn's Dixie Walker at the top of the hitters with a .357 batting average, ahead of Stan Musial at .347. In an even closer vote than occurred in the American League, the National League Most Valuable Player Award goes to fielding wizard shortstop Marty Marion of the Cardinals, who tallies one more vote than Cubs slugger Bill Nicholson (189). The Cardinals committed only 112 errors and fielded .982, both better than previous records held by the 1940 Cincinnati Reds. Marion is the third different Cardinals player in three years to win MVP honors.

1960: Chicago Cubs owner Philip K. Wrigley announces the club will not have a manager for the next season, but will instead use a college of coaches, who will take turns managing the ballclub. The original eight coaches include Charlie Grimm, Ripper Collins and Rube Walker. Before the season is over, Vedie Himsl, Harry Craft, El Tappe and Lou Klein will have taken turns leading the team. The results will be disastrous for the Cubs, who will finish the season 35 games out of first place, but the experiment will be repeated in 1962 before being shelved for good.

1981: The Philadelphia Phillies sign future Hall of Fame third baseman Mike Schmidt to a six-year contract worth $1.2 million per season. During the strike-shortened 1981 season, Schmidt led the National League in home runs (31), RBI (91) and runs (78).

1982: All-Star first baseman Steve Garvey signs a free agent five-year contract with the San Diego Padres. Garvey leaves the Los Angeles Dodgers after 14 seasons.

1995: Alan Trammell of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1997: Bob Hamelin of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1998: Comerica Bank buys the naming rights for the Tigers' new ballpark.
Owner Mike Illitch initially favored the name "Tigers Park." Comerica provided 66 million reasons to reconsider.
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1999: The Dodgers are fined $50,000 and banned from scouting any Dominican Republic players for one year as a penalty for having signed third baseman Adrian Beltre as a 15-year-old. Beltre is not given his free agency, according to Commissioner Bud Selig, because he participated in the scheme, and because the claim for free agency was made too late. The players association is expected to file a grievance in the matter, but the ruling will stand.

2000: Hoping to pick it up where it all started, 41-year old OF Tim Raines agrees to a minor league contract with the Montreal Expos, the team he broke in with in 1979. After retiring in Yankees camp during spring training with a .295 career batting average, Raines failed to make this year's U.S. Olympic team.

2001: The Detroit Tigers signed Jacob Cruz as a free agent.

2002: Robert Fick of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2002: Julio Santana of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2003: Ben Petrick of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2003: Andy Van Hekken of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2004: Eric Munson of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2009: The San Diego Padres purchased Dusty Ryan from the Detroit Tigers.

2015: The Pittsburgh Pirates purchased Kyle Lobstein from the Detroit Tigers.

2018: The Dodgers pull off a big trade with the Reds, sending four major leaguers - OFs Yasiel Puig and Matt Kemp, P Alex Wood and C Kyle Farmer, in return for P Homer Bailey and prospects Josiah Gray and Jeter Downs. The main purpose of the trade for L.A. appears to be to clear roster and salary space in order to sign free agent OF Bryce Harper, as they release Bailey immediately after acquiring him, buying off $28 million he is still owed on his contract.

2018: The Associated Press reports that the average salary in the major leagues went down last season, for the first time since 2004, albeit by a very small amount, according to data provided by the Players Association. The typical player took home $4.095 million, down from $4.097 million the year before. The other times salaries had failed to rise were during collusion in the mid-1980s and after the devastating 1994 strike. In 2018, teams had been notably reticent to offer salaries to free agents, with a huge number being still unsigned when spring training opened and many forced to accept salaries below their previous market value.

2019: The Tigers, owners of the worst record and the most anemic line-up in the majors last season, add a couple of power hitters on one-year free agent deals, both for $6.1 million. The similarities don't end there as 1B C.J. Cron and 2B Jonathan Schoop were both with the Twins last season, and put up very similar numbers: Cron hit .253 with 25 homers in 125 games, and Schoop .256 with 23 homers in 121 games.

2021: With Major League Baseball still under an off-season lockout, figures are released today which show that major league salaries dropped by 4% last season, returning to levels not seen since 2015, and have been in decline since 2017, at a time when revenues have grown steadily. For the purpose of luxury tax payments, the Dodgers had the highest payroll, at $285.6 million, generating a tax bill of $32.6 million, whereas ten teams were under $100 million in total payroll.

2022: The Yankees officially name Aaron Judge as the 16th team captain of their history and the first since Derek Jeter's retirement at the end of the 2014 season. Jeter and another former captain, Willie Randolph, are on hand to bestow the honorary title on the man who just broke Roger Maris's American League record for most home runs in one season.

2022: The Detroit Tigers selected Mario Feliciano off waivers from the Milwaukee Brewers.

Tigers players and coaches birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/maddoel01.shtml?redir
Elliot Maddox 1970.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Andy_Van_Slyke
Andy Van Slyke coach 2006-2009.

Tigers players and announcers who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/warnejo01.shtml
Jack Warner 1905-1906.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dick_Enberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Enberg
Dick Enberg Announcer extraordinaire from Michigan 1935-2017.

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