Baseball has taken Doug Mientkiewicz everywhere. This season, it's brought him back to the city of his birth as he takes the helm of the Tigers' Triple-A affiliate in Toledo, Ohio.
"Obviously, you can see friends and family that you haven't seen in forever," he said. "My parents were born and raised here. They've been up here a ton, seeing their longtime high school friends, so it's been cool. To see how much has changed, you realize there's managing in certain places and then there's managing the Mud Hens."
His family moved to Miami when Mientkiewicz was a boy, and he doesn't remember much about his childhood in Northern Ohio.