The Tigers are all headed to Ohio this week. But Casey Mize is among the players who’ll make it only as far as Toledo.
It's not because he doesn’t belong on the team’s 30-man Opening Day roster, which will begin this pandemic-shortened Major League Baseball season Friday night in Cincinnati.
No, it's because the team isn’t quite ready to admit it yet, which is their right, obviously. And probably even the right thing to, all things considered. But more on that later.
First, the Tigers had to break the news to their former No.