Celebrating Detroit Tigers teams, players and games from 1977 to '89.
Month: December 2013
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On this date in 1998, the Tigers signed free agent Gregg Jefferies to a two-year contract and traded outfielder Luis Gonzalez to the Diamondbacks for Karim Garcia. A lifetime .289 hitter, Jeffries hit just .231 with a .639 OPS in 111 games for the 1999 and 2000 clubs. In Gonzalez’s lone season with the Tigers he…
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Scott Raab of Esquire lobs this grenade into the Jack Morris/Hall of Fame discussion: The Baseball Writers’ Association of America was founded in 1908 and boasts more than 800 members, many of whom were hypnotized at some point during the 1980s and programmed to vote Jack Morris into the Hall of Fame because — they really…
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