Throughout the long winter nights, and after countless evenings driving home from work through a landscape of ice, snow and potholes, illuminated only by a feeble twilight, the cold, wet blanket of winter can feel endless. But today is the payoff. Baseball returns to our lives in full flower today, and it couldn’t happen soon enough.
Okay, it could be better. The Tigers aren’t going to do much of anything on the field this season. But you can’t get back to contending without rebuilding a foundation first, and that work is now underway. Rather than team success, we’ll be rooting for player development, a strong draft, and some deals to enrich the Tigers’ prospect coffers along the way.