Lakeland, Fla. — Drew Carlton isn’t about to let himself be defined by 19 batters. That just won’t do.
“You just have to push through and keep working,” said the Lakeland-born, 26-year-old reliever who made an inauspicious, 19-batter, major-league debut with the Tigers last September and was lopped off the 40-man roster two months later. “Just because I am not on the 40-man roster doesn’t mean they’re not going to give me another shot.
“That just pretty much added fuel to the fire.”
That he was signed back on a minor-league deal and invited to minicamp shows the Tigers haven't given up on him.