Ramon Santiago started his major league career with the
Tigers in 2002. He was a back up
shortstop/second baseman. We traded him
to the Mariners with Juan Gonzalez (not Juan from the Rangers but a minor
leaguer) for Carlos Guillen. In 2005 the
Mariners released him and we resigned him for the 2006 season. In 2010 he was our starting shortstop and in
2011 he is our starting second baseman.
Then he went to the bench. As a
hitter he is a .250 hitter who strikes out about 2 to 3 times more than he
walks and he doesn’t have a lot of power.
But he is an above average fielder, but not by much. After 2013 Ramon was granted free agency when
we ended up with what appeared to be a solid middle infield of Ina Kinsler at second
and Jose Iglesias. In 2014 Ramon is a
back up middle infielder for the Cincinnati Reds hitting .248 and striking out
more than he walks.
Shane Loux started his major league career with the Tigers
in 2002 as well as a late season call up.
He was 11-10 in Toledo before being called up that year. He started three games and lost all three for
the Tigers. He lost to the Twins twice
and the Royals once. In 2003 he went
11-6 for Toledo and dropped his ERA to 3.02.
But when he came up to Detroit in 2003 he went 1-1 with a 7.12 ERA. He did not get a call in 2004 and after going
7-11 in Toledo and his ERA ballooning to 5.29 the Tigers released him. He was up with the Angels in 2008 and 2009
but did not do much different. He was
released by the Angels and signed with the Astros but never made it out of their
minors before being released again. He
was picked up by the San Francisco Giants and was 1-0 in 19 games. 2014
finds him pitching for the Giants rookie ball on a rehab assignment recovering
from Tommy John surgery.
Hideo Nomo pitched one year for the Tigers in 2000. He was signed as a free agent after his one
year with the Brewers and Mets before that.
He was okay with the Tigers going 8-12 but posting a 4.74 ERA on a bad
Tiger team. But the Tigers released him
at the end of the season and he signed with the Red Sox and went 13-10 with a
4.50 ERA. He returned to his Dodgers,
the place he started his US career in 1995 with a sensation. He was 13-6 his rookie year and posted a 2.54
ERA. He also had his signature wind up
with his hands raised high and his “tornado” wind up. He threw two no hitters in his career and
retired after 2008.
Morris Madden made his major league debut in 1987 with the
Tigers. He came in in relief against the
Brewers in a 5-4 game with the bases loaded.
He walked Jim Gantner before getting the final out. He came to the mound the next inning and had
the bases loaded with two outs when he was pulled. Mike Henneman came in and gave up a single
scoring two of Morris’s runners. Five days later he came in against the Blue
Jays in relief of an 8-3 lead. He gave
up a double, ground out, single scoring the runner, fly out and another single
before he was pulled. He never pitched
for the Tigers again. His final line for
the Tigers was 1.2 innings pitched, 4 hits, 3 walks, one intentional walk and
an ERA of 16.20. Morris was sent to the
Pirates during the season to finish the deal of Darnell Coles and the player to
me named later (Morris) for Jim Morrison.
Bill Nahorodny was signed as a free agent for the Tigers in
1983 after Bill had played parts of seven seasons with four clubs. He got in two games for the Tigers he got a
walk and made an out. Although a catcher
by trade, he did not get on the field for the Tigers. At the end of the season he was releasedadn
signed by the Mariners.
Jack Burns finished his career with the Tigers in 1936 and
was the starting first baseman for the Tigers that year. Bt Hank Greenberg was our first baseman you
say? Yes but Hank broke his wrist in the
1935 World Series and rebroke in April of 1936 and was gone for the
season. The Tigers found themselves in
need of a first baseman so they traded Chief Hogsett to the St. Louis Browns
for Jack. Jack then hit .283 for the
Tiges with four homers. Not quite to par
for Greenberg. When Hank came back in
1937 Jack went down to the minors and never got back to the majors. In 1938 he started a new career as a player
manager in the minors and continued in baseball until 1954 as a minor league
manager but was done playing in the minors in 1946. He even got in one game as a pitcher for the
San Francisco Seals in the Pacific Coast League in 1940. He died in 1975 and is
buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Brighton, MI.
Norman Glaser made his major league debut as a Tiger pitcher
in September of 1921. He came in to a
game against the Senators with the Tigers trailing 7-3. He pitched 2.1 innings and gave up four runs
on seven hits before being removed from the game. The Tigers came back and won the game 12-11
with four runs in the bottom of the ninth.
The same number of runs that Norman had given up. Norman never pitched in the majors
again. His career totals were a 0-0
record with a 15.43 ERA in 2.1 innings pitched.
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