Toledo — They were hanging together Thursday afternoon, killing time at the team hotel in Syracuse, when Daniel Norris and, later, Matt Boyd, got phone calls about 10 minutes apart.
Two pitchers who thought their big league lives would unfurl in Toronto got news they were now property of the Detroit Tigers.
"Growing up, the Tigers were always one of those teams, those storied teams," Boyd said Monday as he took a break in the Triple A Toledo clubhouse as the Mud Hens got ready for a game against Lehigh Valley.
"I'm from Seattle (Bellevue, Wash.