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- Updated: September 24, 2016
DETROIT — Far removed from his days of patrolling right field at Comerica Park and winning batting titles, Magglio Ordonez now has a little more responsibility. He is the mayor of the Juan Antonio Sotillo Municipality in eastern Venezuela. He also owns the baseball team Caribes de Anzoategui of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League.
Ordonez took time to step away from his busy life to visit Comerica Park as a part of the Tigers’ 10-year anniversary celebration of the 2006 American League Championship team. He will participate in a pregame Q&A session with fans and throw out the ceremonial first pitch before Saturday’s game against the Royals.
Ordonez signed with the Tigers in 2005, one year before he hit a walk-off home run in Game 4 of the ’06 ALCS that sent the Tigers to their first World Series in 22 years, a moment forever etched in the minds of Tigers fans.
Ordonez joked with media on Friday that he watches …
