Detroit — Tigers pitching coach Chris Bosio saw it right away. Watching video of Jordan Zimmermann from last season, it didn’t look anything like the pitcher he’d seen be dominant for a four-year stretch in Washington.
And it was a far cry from the pitcher he watched strike out 16 and overwhelm his Wisconsin-Oshawa team in a Division III tournament game in 2006, back when Zimmermann was playing at Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
“The first time I talked to him (in November), he was already watching film on me,” Zimmermann said. “He said he saw something that needed correcting.