Who came along in a puff of smoke?
That’s a line from a 1955 Broadway musical — “Damn Yankees” — and it introduces “Shoeless Joe Hardy,” a fictional member of the non-fictional Washington Senators who (65-year-old spoiler alert!) makes a deal with the devil to beat the Yankees … which is something we might consider if the Detroit Tigers’ rebuild stretches on much longer. (Or at least beat Cleveland – maybe we could get a cut rate…)
But hey, this is the Detroit Tigers Newsletter, and right now, Akil Baddoo is emerging from his own puff of smoke down in Lakeland.