Kansas City, Mo. — If you could've made it into the stadium early enough back in May, invariably you would've seen two men walking slowly around the track at Comerica Park. Usually the smaller of the two men would be doing most of the talking. The larger man, listening intently, would occasionally nod, smile and nod again.
What you were looking at were the seeds of Joe Jimenez’s renaissance.
“It was a very tough time for me,” Jimenez said hours before the Tigers opened a three-game series against the Royals. “And Spencer Wood helped me a lot.