James McCann wasn’t tuned in to the Detroit Tigers’ off-season moves.
He was in the Dominican Republic during last week’s winter meetings with teammates Anthony Gose and Kyle Lobstein, visiting the team’s Dominican academy and spending time with children from a nearby orphanage. So the news of the Tigers’ moves reached him late.
“It was almost like every morning, it was a recap of what happened the night before,” McCann said recently on MLB Network. “Because that was the first thing all of us were doing when we got back to the room, was checking what moves were made and, obviously, a lot of things went down during that time.