Detroit — The shorter the outings were, the longer the nights became for Daniel Norris last summer. The Tigers’ talented 24-year-old lefty would head home from the ballpark, searching for answers he couldn’t find and rest that wouldn’t come.
“It was nonexistent,” Norris said Thursday, sipping a cup of coffee as he poured out some of those memories inside Comerica Park this week as the Tigers’ winter caravan began. “I’m not scared to admit that. I’ll tell you how much I love the game, and that’s it: I’d go out there, go three innings, give up five runs or something, and I couldn’t sleep that night.