— It’s fascinating to watch Francisco Rodriguez work.
Yes, it can be exasperating and gut-wrenching, too, especially if you have a vested interest in whether the Tigers win or lose on a particular night.
But if you can step outside of that and just study him, listen to him talk about his thought process and how he thinks his way through an inning, it’s illuminating, to say the least.
Because his fastball maxes out at 90 mph, which is up several ticks from where it was earlier in the season, he works within a very small margin of error.