Detroit – I walked into the Tigers’ clubhouse Thursday on a mission that didn’t involve Victor Martinez. But I quickly noticed several reporters encircling him at his locker. They say baseball is a game of adjustments; so is beat reporting.
If Victor Martinez is talking about hitting, if he’s talking about baseball, you need to listen. So I scrapped my mission and stood on the outside of Martinez’s media scrum. (Detroit News columnist John Niyo was in the scrum and provided me with an audio tape.)
It was a fascinating, insightful and revealing 15 minutes.