Wanna play for the Detroit Tigers?

By Craig CalcaterraFeb 11, 2013, 5:00 PM EDT
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I suppose Johnny Damon technically fits the eligibility requirements, but the Tigers will probably post someone at the gate to keep him out:

 

 

It’s hard to imagine in this day and age that legitimate, professional-level baseball talent can go unnoticed so that a player could latch on like this via a tryout. But weirder things have happened. I mean, Ron LeFlore got discovered while he was in prison.

Marlins give Don Mattingly two-year extension

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By Craig CalcaterraSep 20, 2019, 3:55 PM EDT
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The Marlins have announced that they have inked manager Don Mattingly to a two-year contract extensions. There’s a third year in the form of a mutual option.

Mattingly is finishing up the final year of the four-year contract he signed with the Marlins prior to the 2016 season. He’s 272-364 in that period and the club has lost 99 games already this season. The current bad run, however, obviously corresponds with a massive rebuild the team began undertaking following the 2017 season and the team’s change in ownership. Mattingly has not had much to work with over the past two seasons but he has likewise, largely, kept the team on as even a keel as one could hope under the circumstances. He has certainly impressed the Marlins’ brass enough to take the unusual step of keeping on a manager they inherited from a previous ownership and front office group.

In other news, the Marlins also announced a two-year contract extension for shortstop Miguel Rojas valued at $10.25 million. There’s a vesting option for a third year. The deal buys out Rojas’ final year of arbitration eligibility and one year of free agency, plus that option.

Rojas, 30, is hitting .285/.335/.383 (OPS+ 92) this year.