Tigers Lean On Experienced Trainer Kevin Rand
DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Tigers lean on Kevin Rand in and out of season to keep players as healthy as possible to compete for championships.
The team's medical director and head athletic trainer leads a six-person staff that gets assists from interns.
Tigers president and general manager Dave Dombrowski says the team might have nine people do what only one trainer did three-plus decades ago when his career in professional baseball began. Dombrowski believes taking care of players has become a bigger business because they're making a lot of money and franchises want to take care of them.
Rand's career began as a minor league athletic trainer for the Yankees in 1982 and was hired 30 years later to be the Tigers' head athletic trainer.
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