Tigers Clips Friday, October 28, 2016

Detroit Free Press Tigers' Kinsler, Iglesias, McCann, Verlander finalists for Gold Glove (Fenech)

The Detroit News Four Tigers are Gold Glove finalists (Paul)

MLive.com 4 named finalists (Woodbery)

MLB.com 4 Tigers named Gold Glove Award finalists (Beck)

Associated Press Flashback: Tigers won last game at Wrigley (Staff)

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Tigers' Kinsler, Iglesias, McCann, Verlander finalists for Gold Glove October 28, 2016 By Anthony Fenech/ Detroit Free Press

The Detroit Tigers haven’t had a full-season Gold Glove Award winner since 2009. Last season, leftfielder Yoenis Cespedes won the award as a Tiger — but he played the final two months of the season with the Mets. This season, four Tigers are finalists for the AL Gold Glove, as announced by Rawlings on Thursday: Ian Kinsler, Jose Iglesias, James McCann and . All but Kinsler — who despite outstanding defense the past three seasons has yet to win ’s top defensive honor — are first-time finalists. In 2015, Kinsler lost out to Houston’s Jose Altuve. In 2014, he fell to Boston’s . Kinsler is a finalist with Pedroia — who is seeking his fifth Gold Glove — and Seattle’s Robinson Cano. Kinsler and Pedroia finished tied for the AL lead in by a second baseman this season with 12 each. Kinsler had a .988 , tying a career high set in 2014. Iglesias, considered one of the best fielding in the AL, is competing with Cleveland’s and the Angels’ Andrelton Simmons. Iglesias compiled the top fielding percentage among shortstops in the AL at .991. The Tigers haven’t had a Gold Glover at shortstop since in 1984. McCann, recognized after two solid seasons behind the plate, will go up against Kansas City’s Salvador Perez and the Angels’ Carlos Perez. In his rookie year last season, he made no errors. This season, he made four errors in 99 games and ranked second in the AL in Defensive Runs Saved. The Tigers have not had a Gold Glove winner at catcher since Pudge Rodriguez in 2007. Verlander is competing against Houston’s and Toronto’s R.A. Dickey. Keuchel has won the past two Gold Gloves. The Tigers have not had a Gold Glove winner at pitcher since Kenny Rogers in 2006. They have not had multiple Gold Glove winners since 2007, when Rodriguez and Placido Polanco (second base) won. Winners will be named Nov. 8.

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Four Tigers are Gold Glove finalists October 28, 2016 By Tony Paul/ The Detroit News

Detroit -- The Tigers haven't had multiple Gold Glove winners in the same year since 2006. The odds seem pretty good this year. Four Tigers were announced as Gold Glove finalists Thursday, including shortstop Jose Iglesias, second baseman Ian Kinsler, catcher James McCann and pitcher Justin Verlander. None of the four have ever won a Gold Glove. Rawlings made the announcements on Twitter. The Gold Glove winners will be announced Nov. 9 on ESPN. In 2006, the Tigers had multiple Gold Glove winners, in pitcher Kenny Rogers and catcher Pudge Rodriguez. Their last Gold Glove winner was outfielder Yoenis Cespedes last season. He won the award, despite being traded to the in July. Before Cespedes, second baseman Placido Polanco was Detroit's last winner, in 2009. Also of note, Colorado Rockies second baseman D.J. LeMahieu is a finalist. The Birmingham Brother Rice alum, who won the batting title in the National League this season after hitting .348, won a Gold Glove back in 2014. Here's the competition the Tigers are facing: Shortstop: Cleveland's Francisco Lindor, L.A.'s Andrelton Simmons Second base: Seattle's Robinson Cano, Boston's Dustin Pedroia Catcher: L.A.'s Carlos Perez, Kansas City's Salvador Perez Pitcher: Toronto's R.A. Dickey, Houston's Dallas Keuchel The Tigers also figure to have strong contenders for AL Rookie of the Year (Michael Fulmer) and (Verlander).

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4 Detroit Tigers named Gold Glove Award finalists October 28, 2016 By Evan Woodbery/ MLive.com

DETROIT -- Four Detroit Tigers were selected as finalists for the American League Gold Glove Award at their positions on Thursday. Pitcher Justin Verlander, catcher James McCann, second baseman Ian Kinsler and shortstop Jose Iglesias will find out next month if they have won Gold Gloves. The last Tiger to win a Gold Glove was Yoenis Cespedes in 2015. Verlander, McCann, Kinsler and Iglesias are all looking for the first of their career. Here is the full list of American League finalists, as announced by Rawlings Sports, which sponsors the award: Pitcher: Verlander, Dallas Keuchel (Houston) and R.A. Dickey (Toronto). Catcher: McCann, Carlos Perez () and Salvador Perez (Royals). First base: (Baltimore), (Kansas City) and (Texas). Second base: Kinsler, Robinson Cano (Seattle) and Dustin Pedroia (Boston). Third base: Manny Machado (Baltimore), Kyle Seager (Seattle)and Adrian Beltre (Texas). Shortstop: Iglesias, Andrelton Simmons (Los Angeles Angels) and Francisco Lindor (Cleveland). Left field: Brett Gardner (), Alex Gordon (Kansas City) and Colby Rasmus (Houston). Center field: (Toronto), Jackie Bradley Jr. (Boston) and (Tampa Bay). Right field: Adam Eaton (), (Boston) and George Springer (Houston).

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4 Tigers named Gold Glove Award finalists October 28, 2016 By Jason Beck/ MLB.com

DETROIT -- The Tigers haven't had a Gold Glove Award-winning since 2009. They haven't had multiple Gold Glove Award winners in a season since '07. They'll have a chance at both this year. Pitcher Justin Verlander, catcher James McCann, second baseman Ian Kinsler and shortstop Jose Iglesias were all announced as finalists at their respective positions Thursday, as Rawlings announced the Gold Glove Award field on its Twitter account. Winners will be revealed on Nov. 8 at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN. For a team whose only Gold Glove Award winner over the past five years was Yoenis Cespedes for his half- season manning left field in Detroit last year, it's a nice bit of progress. For Kinsler, it's another chance at an honor that has eluded him over the years despite a compilation of defensive metrics in his favor. Major League managers and coaches, voting only within their league and unable to vote for players on their own teams, account for 75 percent of the selection process. The other 25 percent goes to the sabermetrics community. Kinsler is a finalist for the third time in as many seasons as a Tiger. He has dominated his position in Defensive Runs Saved all three years in Detroit, but he lost out to Dustin Pedroia in 2014 and Jose Altuve last year. Pedroia and Robinson Cano are the other finalists this year, with Pedroia back in the hunt for what would be his fifth Gold Glove Award victory. Kinsler and Pedroia finished tied for the lead among AL second basemen this season with 12 DRS, with Cano at 11. Kinsler's 8.5 Ultimate Zone Rating trailed Pedroia (12.5). The other three Tigers are first-time finalists. That includes Verlander, who picked off eight baserunners as a rookie in 2006 and had an errorless season in '07 but hadn't earned much regard for fielding his position until this year. Verlander's five Defensive Runs Saved tied him for fourth among AL , as did his 29 assists. His standout stats, however, were on the pure pitching side, including his fourth title and his third time leading AL pitchers in . No AL pitcher has won a strikeout title and a Gold Glove Award in the same season since Seattle's in 1987. Clayton Kershaw did it on the National League side in 2011. Two-time reigning AL Gold Glove Award winner Dallas Keuchel -- who led AL pitchers with seven DRS -- joins Verlander among the finalists, along with Blue Jays knuckleballer R.A. Dickey. If Verlander beats them out, he'll be the first Tigers pitcher to win a Gold Glove Award since Kenny Rogers in 2006. Though McCann and Iglesias are both regarded as strong defensive defenders, they needed a few years to earn that regard among Gold Glove Award voters. McCann threw out 45 percent of would-be basestealers -- second- highest among AL -- and led his position with nine plays. His nine Defensive Runs Saved also ranked second. In both caught-stealing percentage and DRS, McCann trailed Kansas City's Salvador Perez, who has won the past three AL Gold Glove Awards behind the plate. Not surprisingly, Perez is also a finalist, along with Angels backstop Carlos Perez. No Tigers catcher has won a Gold Glove Award since Ivan Rodriguez in 2007. Though Iglesias has provided highlight-caliber plays since arriving in Detroit in 2013, he hadn't posted the statistics to reflect a full season of defensive prowess until this year. With just five errors in 574 chances, he posted an AL-best .991 fielding percentage. His 11.6 UZR ranked third among AL shortstops, dwarfing his 2.3 UZR last year. Not since the great Alan Trammell in 1984 has a Tigers shortstop won a Gold Glove Award. And with Francisco Lindor and two-time NL Gold Glove Award winner Andrelton Simmons also finalists, Iglesias has a tough class to top.

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Flashback: Tigers won last World Series game at Wrigley October 28, 2016 By Associated Press Staff/ Associated Press

CHICAGO – The had only gone 37 years without a championship when they reached the World Series in 1945. It was their 10th National League pennant, and the Cubs hardly seemed like a franchise that would take more than seven decades to get back. They pushed the Detroit Tigers to a deciding Game 7, but lost, 9-3, on Oct. 10, 1945. Here’s a report by The Associated Press from that day, which turned out to be the last time the World Series was played at until Chicago hosts the in Game 3 on Friday night. Baseball’s take-off on the nine old men — eight old men and a boy, in this case — brought the world championship back to Detroit today for the first time in ten years, all because the Chicago Cubs ran out of “gas” and pitchers against the Tiger triggermen in the clutch. That, plus some of the fanciest flinging of this fall frolic by Lefty , for a new series strikeout record for seven games, meant the ball game and the set in the finale yesterday. Prince Hal was the boy in the case — he is 24 — and the boy turned out to be quite a man as he racked up his second win of the scramble. That was the story in yesterday’s 9-to-3 payoff. Jolly Cholly Grimm was so desperate for pitchers, after using most of them Sunday and Monday, he finally had to reach into the barrel and come up with heaving Hank Borowy for his third consecutive game. Good as Hank was in this series — he won twice and lost twice — the Tigers got to him early. They drove him from the hill after nine pitches which three Tigers converted into and one . Five other Cub pitchers followed him to the mound. That’s the way the doddering Detroiters were. They ran, mostly as if they were dragging their anchors, but their bats were loaded with explosives. The Tigers’ hitting power when it was needed, and tight pitching in the pinches, was what made the Cubs lose their seventh series opportunity in 37 years after beating the Tigers in 1907-08. The Tigers — all the regulars except the pitchers are over 30 — put on some great exhibitions of daffiness out there in the field from time to time. But when the final chips were down they picked them up with alacrity. It wasn’t only one of them, although was in the forefront. The big guy is a slowed-up 35 now but he was the glamour boy of the series in anybody’s book. He hammered one homer that won a game, another that kept his ball club in it; thumped three doubles in one tilt; scored seven runs and knocked in seven. He wound up with a .304 batting mark, which, with his 1934 and 1940 flailing, made him one of 13 men in all series history to go for .300 or better in three or more series. Phil Cavarretta, the Cubs first-sacker and probably the most underrated man in the set, went Hank one better in this department. He was the No. 1 ball-buster and came to the wire with a .423 mark, the second time he’s run through a series at a snappy .400 or better. Aside from Greenberg’s fireworks, it might be anybody in the Tiger lineup to knock the roof in at any moment. Yesterday, tall , the 37-year-old catcher, pounded out a pair of two-baggers to zip four runs across. The first of these whacks was a base-cleaner for three tallies in the first inning, in which the Tigers, after clubbing Borowy to the showers, continued to have fun against Paul Derringer until they’d chalked up five markers. As far as the outcome was concerned, the game might just as well have ended there. Newhouser was hot in the clutches. He was never in real trouble and finished up fanning ten Cubs to run his total for the series up to 22. Or besides Richards and Greenberg, it might have been Doc Cramer, the 40-year-old “youngster”, who was just about the entire Detroit outfield. He chipped in with three safe blows yesterday to end up with 11 for the series, tying Cavarretta and Third Baseman Stan Hack of the Cubs, in collecting hits. In the field it was strictly no contest. The Cub flychasing trio of Handy Andy Pafko, who’s now ranked as the National League’s best — possibly the best in baseball pending one Joe Di Maggio’s return — Peanuts Lowrey and Bill Nicholson made the Bengal gardners look slow in contrast.

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The Bengals relied almost entirely on their clouting skill, with an occasional classy curving job, like Newhouser’s yesterday and ’s five-hitter last Saturday. Of course, the top throwing stunt of the set was the all-time one-, one-walk masterpiece Claude Passeau came up with in the third game. Probably all the silliness of the series could be wrapped up in two of the records. The Cubs scored 29 runs. No other club ever counted so many, and still lost. Newhouser was slightly touched for 14 earned runs. No other elbower ever gave up that many and still won. That’s the kind of a clambake it was.

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LAST UPDATED: FRI, OCTOBER 28, 2016, 01:20 EDT

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2016

TEAM PLAYER TRANSACTION

Cincinnati Reds John Lamb Designated for Assignment

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2016

TEAM PLAYER TRANSACTION

Oakland Athletics Giovanni Soto Acquired Off Waivers From from Cubs, Chi. Cubs

Texas Rangers Lucas Harrell Outrighted to Minors

Texas Rangers Shawn Tolleson Removed From 60-Day DL, (Lower back sprain)

Texas Rangers Lucas Harrell Removed From 60-Day DL, (Strained right groin)

Texas Rangers Shawn Tolleson Outrighted to Minors

Washington Nationals Aaron Barrett Refused Minor League Assignment - Free Agent

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2016

TEAM PLAYER TRANSACTION

San Diego Padres Jemile Weeks Outrighted to Minors

San Diego Padres Jake Smith Outrighted to Minors

San Diego Padres José Domínguez Refused Minor League Assignment - Free Agent

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San Diego Padres José Domínguez Outrighted to Minors

San Diego Padres Jemile Weeks Removed From 60-Day DL, (Strained right hamstring)

Washington Nationals Aaron Barrett Outrighted to Minors

Washington Nationals Aaron Barrett Removed From 60-Day DL, (Recovery from right elbow surgery)

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