Lakeland, Fla. — He wasn’t going there. No matter how many different ways the question was asked, Tigers’ enigmatic right-hander Bruce Rondon wasn’t going to talk about what happened last season.
“I am feeling good,” he said through interpreter Aileen Villarreal Friday. “I’m ready to concentrate and do my job.”
The Tigers sent Rondon home last September. Both manager Brad Ausmus and general manager Al Avila agreed that he was becoming a distraction to the team. They said at the time that he was sent home because of a lack of effort.
But it was a confluence of things.