2020 Spring Training

@Salty , I do not live too far from the Tigers Spring Training location. I will be going there next month to see the Tigers play my favorite team, the Mets. I will also be taking my annual drive down to Port Saint Lucie to see the Mets work out. Many of the players are very approachable during the first week of Spring Training.

Do you attend Spring Training?

 

I bet all those players from the Midwest love coming to Arizona!

 

Syracuse, huh? I used to work for a now-defunct rental uniform company headquartered in Syracuse, Coyne Textile Services. I had the pleasure of experiencing that lake effect snow. Not a fan.

The Mets are going to have some very talented prospects who will probably play at Syracuse this year. Keep your eye on Ronny Mauricio and Andres Giminez.

 

Al Kaline and Mickey Lolich were on that team. I think that was the year Denny McLain won 31 games. That will never happen today with the way they limit pitch counts.

 

The great starting pitchers I remember from the late '60s and '70s regularly threw complete games. Marichal, Gibson, Seaver, Carlton, Palmer, Ryan...these guys pitched northward of 250 innings each season and would argue with their manager if he tried to take them out. Now teams are using pitchers as "openers". The Yankees did that a few times last year. It is not the game that I remember. Man. I must be getting old.

 

I've been watching the Ken Burns documentary "BASEBALL" the last couple of weeks to prepare. All will be right with the world again when the best game is back on the horizon!

Not to mention my Reds have made some MAJOR upgrades.

 

I have Burns on VHS--pretty old, isn't it? The baseball one was the best thing he ever did.

 

I've got the DVD set but yes, best one he did. I watch it every January.

 

Lakeland FL native here.

 

Hope springs eternal for us Tiger fans, for its been since 1984 they won the World Series, even though we had at one time 4 Cy Young award winners as our starting pitching staff!
And a Triple Crown winner, and a Cy young/Mvp same year same person!

 

I am the next town over to the east.

 

There is a Panera Bread across the street from the hotel where many of Tiger players stay for spring training. I frequent that Panera Bread and so did Justin Verlander when he was with the tigers. It wasn't unusual to see him there in the early AM in February and March.

 

All 4 major Detroit teams are stinkers right now, but especially the Lions, for it would take an act of God to ever see them in the Super Bowl!

 

I've been living off Thornhill road since 1987. Born and raised in West Lakeland.

 

I am not too far from Lake Arietta, although I am a transplant.

 

As a young boy, I always looked forward to the month of March, because ...

1) the weather got warmer,

2) it was great kite flying weather,

3) time for spring training!

 

Another season of Detroit Tigers!