Hey Tigers fans, here’s a familiar face. No he’s not quite our handsome young prince anymore, but we had some good times with Rick Porcello in a Detroit Tigers uniform. Now 31 years old, and four years from his shocking Cy Young Award winning season with the Boston Red Sox, Porcello has proven himself one of the most durable pitchers of the era and still a fairly effective one to boot.
Porcello needs little introduction to all but the youngest, or newest, Tigers fans out there. The rest of us won’t soon forget his exhilarating 2009 debut campaign and how the 20-year-old rookie helped carry a thin pitching staff through the stretch drive until the game that must not be mentioned snuffed our collective hopes.