Detroit — To paraphrase James Baldwin: There’s nothing more dangerous than a man who has nothing to lose.
Tigers right-hander Kyle Funkhouser is feeling a little bit like that these days. After getting his teeth kicked in last season (14 runs in 17 innings) and being unceremoniously optioned back to Triple-A this spring — if he wasn’t scraping rock bottom, he was hovering only slightly above it.
“Opportunities come and go for everyone,” Funkhouser said Saturday. “I just wanted to take advantage of mine the best I could and that’s the only way — just fight, fight, fight.