Pain-free again, Tigers' Gleyber Torres ready to embark on 'special' season

Lakeland, Fla. — He didn’t say a word about it until after the Tigers lost Game 5 of the American League Division Series in Seattle. Not until the season was completely over did Gleyber Torres let on to the public that he’d been playing through a sports hernia injury and was headed to surgery. Not only that, he also revealed he’d been dealing with the pain for most of the second half of the season. “I couldn’t reach pitches,” he said Tuesday before workouts began. “I couldn’t do a really good swing. But I am a professional. When you play this sport, you have to play with pain. I had good conversations with AJ (Hinch, Tigers manager) and I tell him I’m going to play. The trainers did a really...