With major league baseball still on lockdown through the holidays, there still isn’t much to report from around the league. Negotiators from league owners and the players association met briefly last week, but mainly to hash out some technical details as opposed to core economic issues. And so, we wait.
Unfortunately, the most notable news for the Detroit Tigers was the sudden tragic death of first base coach, Kimera Bartee on Tuesday. No cause of death has been announced, but Bartee apparently collapsed in Omaha, Nebraska while visiting his father. He was 49 years old.
Bartee was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles back in the 1993 MLB amateur draft.