And so the old adage goes that "nothing lasts forever." Or in the Zen world, they call it impermanence.
Anthony Fenech of the Detroit Free Press reports that former TIgers ace Max Scherzer knew two years ago that the team couldn't keep its pitching rotation intact.
The Freep reports:
Sometime two years ago, somewhere on a bench, Max Scherzer and Rick Porcello looked at each other like, "Which one of us is going to go?"
"We saw where everybody was at in their contracts and we sat there and realized, hey, look, this team is going to get a major facelift over the next two years," Scherzer told Matt Shepard on WDFN-AM (1130) on Friday morning. "There's just no way you can keep everybody on board."
The Detroit Tigers couldn't, and those two were thrown overboard this off-season – Scherzer into the free agent waters, which led him to the Washington Nationals, and Porcello in a trade to the Boston Red Sox for Yoenis Cespedes.
-- Allan Lengel
