Detroit – He raised his left hand to the Zoom camera, showing two surgical scars, maybe two inches apart, one on his wrist bone, the other on the outside of his hand – poignant reminders of how his last two seasons ended.
“I guess I have to do a better job of getting out of the way,” Tigers center fielder JaCoby Jones laughed Wednesday.
It was good to see him laughing again. The last image we got of Jones was him walking alone, visibly dejected, out of Miller Park in Milwaukee on Sept. 1. Earlier that night, a 90-mph fastball from Brewers rookie reliever Phil Bickford broke a bone in his left hand.