CHICAGO — He answered the questions he didn’t want to answer, questions that have seemed to pop up at any given moment over the past four years, questions that have come to define his time with the Detroit Tigers, and Jordan Zimmermann was holding it back.
He spoke in short answers, obvious frustration, and if there weren’t tears in his eyes, it was because the television camera was pointed his way, or perhaps there were none left.
A day after leaving Thursday night’s start against the Red Sox with right elbow discomfort, the diagnosis on Zimmermann’s latest injury is in: After an MRI scan on Friday morning in Chicago, the Tigers placed him on the 10-day injured list with a right UCL sprain.