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Detroit Tigers chairman and CEO Christopher Ilitch makes an annual tradition of visiting TigerTown<\/strong> at Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Florida, during spring training.<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n

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His visits typically involve:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Observing Field Workouts:<\/strong> Watching live batting practice, bullpen sessions, and drills alongside executive leadership, such as President of Baseball Operations Scott Harris.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Addressing Players & Staff:<\/strong> Speaking with the roster in the clubhouse regarding player investment, team upgrades, and organizational goals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Facility & Resource Upgrades:<\/strong> Reviewing ongoing capital improvements to TigerTown’s clubhouse, weight room, recovery facilities, and training infrastructure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Detroit Tigers chairman and CEO Christopher Ilitch makes an annual tradition of visiting TigerTown at Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Florida, during spring training. His visits typically… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDhcL2ltYWdlcy0xLTMud2VicD9maXQ9Njc4JTJDNDUyJnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiQ2hyaXN0b3BoZXIgSWxpdGNoIFZpc2l0cyBUaWdlcnMgU3ByaW5nIFRyYWluaW5nIGluIExha2VsYW5kIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJkb2lzIiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.WXgMPW9RlMPhXDz5t6W0gdaUF6R41bssJ57vm2SEYEsMQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzA4XC9pbWFnZXMtMS0zLndlYnAiLCJ0eHQiOiJDaHJpc3RvcGhlciBJbGl0Y2ggVmlzaXRzIFRpZ2VycyBTcHJpbmcgVHJhaW5pbmcgaW4gTGFrZWxhbmQiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImRvaXMiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.ZKDkMnTHgtyQV5HK90geZnSTDzBrbPCttbqZITxnkyMMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[7499],"tags":[15729,2542,11816,15179,15733,15732,15731,15730],"class_list":["post-75717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-detroit-tigers","tag-christopher-ilitch","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-joker-marchant-stadium","tag-lakeland-florida","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-scott-harris","tag-spring-training","tag-tigertown"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75719,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75717\/revisions\/75719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}