They once were Tigers.
Happily, for four men today, they no longer are tied to baseball in Detroit. They traded in that “D” on their caps or on their paychecks and joined a big-league team in Boston that Tuesday night gives them their first poke at winning a 2018 world championship destined, it seems, to be Red Sox property.
Dave Dombrowski. Rick Porcello. J.D. Martinez. David Price. Ian Kinsler.
Imagine, a few years ago, thinking they would be World Series parading at Copley Plaza rather than on Woodward Avenue.
But they are there, in Back Bay, aching to shower in champagne should they cut down the Dodgers as most expect will happen.