(Photo: Keith Srakocic, Associated Press)
Detroit — An offseason pool outing gone awry, a canceled birthday dinner and a surprise in-game clubhouse meeting were discussed as a couple former Tigers prospects told tale Tuesday of the times they were traded for some of the game’s titans.
It must be trade deadline season.
Two players who helped net the Tigers a former MVP and Cy Young Award winner shared their life-changing stories in a return visit to Detroit this week.
Phillies left-hander Drew Smyly and manager Gabe Kapler came up in the Tigers system and eventually fetched players on Hall of Fame trajectories — David Price and Juan Gonzalez — when they arrived in the Motor City.