Minneapolis — Two years in Korea, winter ball in the Dominican and in Mexico, a minor league mini-camp in Lakeland, a 12-game audition at Triple-A Toledo and then, at long last, there was Sunday.
Back in the major leagues for the first time since 2014, arriving a little more than an hour before game time after taking a connecting flight from Allentown, Pennsylvania, through Chicago O'Hare, 31-year-old outfielder Jim Adduci had maybe the most satisfying day of his professional life.
“It was a great moment,” he said after stroking two singles and a two-run double in the Tigers’ 13-4 romp over the Twins.