It was eating him up.
Spencer Torkelson, one of the Detroit Tigers' most important prospects, struggled during spring training and the frustration was building.
“He would come home every day mad,” Jake Rogers, Torkelson’s spring training roommate, said Saturday. “He's really hard on himself. I think that's what makes him a really, really good player and why he will be a really good player.”
But Torkelson got just one hit in 27 at-bats, with 16 strikeouts, during spring training.
“I would just tell him to relax and he would get mad,” Rogers said.