West Palm Beach, Fla. — Much less interesting is the players’ parking lot at TigerTown now that Justin Verlander has taken his arm, and his exquisite automobiles, to a new team and spring-training complex.
He works now for the Astros. The endless stream of Maseratis and Lamborghinis and whatever elite vehicle Verlander happened to be driving to the Tigers’ spring-training locale in years past have vanished from Lakeland and central Florida. He wheels these days into the Astros players’ lot, on a majestic new baseball tract the Astros share with the Nationals a few miles from the Atlantic Ocean’s surf.