Detroit – Approached in early September about the possibility of retiring, Tigers pitching coach Jeff Jones looked at the reporter like he had spoken in tongues.
“I wasn’t thinking about retiring,” he said.
Apparently, he has since given it a lot of thought.
Jones, with the Tigers dating back to 1989 and the team’s pitching coach since 2011, announced Monday he was retiring.
“I was thinking about it the last half of the season,” Jones told The Detroit News Monday evening. “It didn’t really have anything to do with what went on during the season.