DETROIT— Try as it might, baseball has not defeated Logan Shore or killed his dream. Not even close. You could rightly argue that all the potholes, hurdles and trap doors the game has put in his path have emboldened and strengthened him.
"I feel like the last couple of years have been just crappy situation after crappy situation with the timing of everything," Shore said Wednesday from his home outside of Phoenix.
There was the pandemic, of course, which effectively shut down his 2020 season and delayed the start of the minor league calendar last season. Then, as he was making strides at Triple-A Toledo last season and the Tigers' starting rotation was reeling from a series of injures, a forearm strain cost him essentially six weeks and his best chance to date of making his big-league debut.
