The ugly weather, he has been handling. As for Triple A pitching — no issues yet.
That shift from the infield’s left side to the right side? There might be Dawel Lugo’s tougher task in a new season’s early days, which the Tigers can accept as a potential long-term second baseman matures at Toledo.
Lugo came to the Tigers last July as the heaviest of three parcels Detroit got when it sent big-hitting J.D. Martinez to the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The thought from Scott Bream, the Tigers’ vice president of player personnel, and his bird dogs was that Lugo’s right-handed bat would hold up at either third base, where he then was playing at the D’backs’ Double-A outpost, or, perhaps, as a second baseman.