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- Updated: August 2, 2016
DETROIT — Daniel Norris was enjoying his off-day on Monday, hanging out in the area for lunch, but he was also keeping his eye on the non-waiver Trade Deadline through his phone. “I was just sitting there having lunch,” the Tigers’ pitcher said, “and I would just check Twitter every second really. So-and-so to here, so-and-so to here.”
Norris has been through it, having joined the Tigers a day before last year’s Deadline as part of the return package in the David Price trade. This year, he watched one of his best friends, Drew Hutchison, go from the Blue Jays to the Pirates at the 4 p.m. ET Deadline in the Francisco Liriano trade. But Norris didn’t have to worry about himself.
Tigers general manager Al Avila said for more than a week that he wasn’t trading Detroit’s young pitchers. In the end, he stuck to his stance, and Norris, Michael Fulmer and Matt Boyd all stuck around.
How did players get traded before Twitter?
— Daniel Norris (@DanielNorris18) August 1, 2016
How did players get traded before Twitter?
“I obviously wanted to stay here,” Norris said Tuesday. “Matt did, and Fulmer as well. I guess the fact that they aren’t willing to part ways with …
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