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New Tiger Norris says he’s a ‘bulldog on the mound’

Baltimore — Daniel Norris, the Tigers newly-acquired left-hander, was trying to explain how exactly he is related to manager Brad Ausmus.

“I had my mom text me this,” he said. “It’s by marriage. My mom’s dad’s daughter’s husband? Something like that. Her second cousin’s dog? Something.”

Ausmus couldn’t really tell you either.

“He told me what it was but I wasn’t really following,” Ausmus said. “He mentioned my aunt, my dad’s sister. Somehow it’s connected. He’s from Johnson City, Tenn., which is where my dad’s from.”

The two met for the first time on Friday after the Tigers acquired Norris from Toronto for David Price.