Tigers Minor League Baseball Blog

There are many things that we as ballplayers try to make happen aside from bettering our own careers. One of these things is keeping fans coming to the games and make the games worth watching. Now part of that is the responsibility of the marketing staff, but there are things that the players do which do matter in getting a good turnout night in and night out. At the forefront of this list would have to be winning, which we have been doing the last few games. Secondly, to keep fans in their seats throughout the game is winning close games, also a recent trend (it makes leaving the stadium a little harder but I’ll take it). And last but not least, have some high profile talent for people to root for. Now we all strive to be high profile but there are just a few who seem to have this phenomenon follow them. Curtis Granderson is one of those players, and I couldn’t have enough good things to say about him for the two days he spent with our team. Not only did he bring in thousands of people to watch the rest of us, but he made sure to impart some of his wisdom about playing at the next level with us. It is hard to stay humble when your bank account can already say so much but I have to say that Curtis played the game no different and took the field to win just like everyone else. Hopefully the next big leaguer to come through West Michigan does it with as much class and fun as Curtis did this past weekend.