DETROIT -- A year ago, as the Detroit Tigers shivered through a painfully slow Opening Day ceremony in Chicago, only one player was in shirt sleeves.
And he wasn't even pitching that day.
Meet the 2018 Detroit Tigers' Opening Day roster
Meet the 2018 Detroit Tigers' Opening Day roster
Jordan Zimmermann, a Wisconsin native who counts ice fishing among his offseason avocations, thinks he might have worn long sleeves once or twice in high school. But not since then.
Zimmermann will be on the mound for the Detroit Tigers on Friday against the Pittsburgh Pirates in a rescheduled Opening Day.