Jordan Zimmermann, as publicly stoic and unemotional a ballplayer as you'll ever meet, was already feeling his eyes begin to well up as he discussed his decision to retire Tuesday on a Zoom session with reporters who cover each of the three teams he pitched for during his career.
"I just felt like after 15 years of playing ball, my mind was still in it, but my body wasn't," the right-hander said.
And when, about 12 minutes into the call, Zimmermann was asked by a writer from Detroit about...
