LAKELAND, Fla. -- The right-field video board that used to reside at Joker Marchant Stadium is gone, a casualty of the new Tigers clubhouse and offices being built. For this year, the score is shown on an old-school digital board that can require squinting to read. The numbers are smaller than the digits on the radar gun board next to it.
So for this spring, the fastball is bigger than the score, much to the chagrin of manager Brad Ausmus.
"People get so enthralled with the radar gun," Ausmus said. "They think you have to throw hard to get outs.