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1996 Season Recap

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As the players that led the Tigers for most of the last 15 years retired, management was unable to find suitable replacements. This would leave the Tigers with a bad team in a crumbling ballpark. The Tigers entered the season with Buddy Bell at the helm and started losing early and often. By midseason the Tigers were well on their way to 100 loses and decided to deal Cecil Fielder to the New York Yankees. In the deal the Tigers were unable to get anything of value and fell even more eventually establishing a club worse record of 53-109.

As the players that led the Tigers for most of the last 15 years retired, management was unable to find suitable replacements. This would leave the Tigers with a bad team in a crumbling ballpark. The Tigers entered the season with Buddy Bell at the helm and started losing early and often. By midseason the Tigers were well on their way to 100 loses and decided to deal Cecil Fielder to the New York Yankees. In the deal the Tigers were unable to get anything of value and fell even more eventually establishing a club worse record of 53-109.

1996 Detroit Tigers season

1996 Detroit TigersTigers

Missed Playoffs

53-109 (.327)

5th place in MLB AL East

Manager

General Manager

President

John McHale Jr.

Team Owner

Ballpark

Attendance

1,168,610 total
14,427 per game

1996 Draft Picks

Round Pick Player

1 6 Seth Greisinger P

2 41 Matt Miller P

3 71 Antonio McKinney OF

4 101 Kris Keller P

5 131 Robert Fick C

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