Detroit Tigers general manager Al Avila speaks to the media during spring training on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, in Lakeland, Florida. Detroit Free Press
The Detroit Tigers will be holding training camp at Comerica Park beginning Wednesday.
The Tigers would have rather trained at their spring training facilities in Lakeland, Florida, which offers five more baseball fields and much more space than the 20-year-old stadium in downtown Detroit, but the situation simply wasn’t feasible.
With an increase in novel coronavirus cases in Florida — and per Major League Baseball’s recommendation to train within driving distance of a team’s home stadium — the Tigers will make the best of an unprecedented situation.