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LAKELAND, Fla. — Casey Mize has come through too much in the last couple of years to get himself in a snit over something as far beyond his control as the Major League Baseball arbitration process. “You ask any player that goes through the arbitration process, it’s different,” he said. This was Mize’s first experience with the process and it got a little weird. When the salary numbers were filed, the Tigers and Mize were only $25,000 apart. Naturally, the spread was a lot wider during the negotiations, but each team sought more of a middle ground. The Tigers filed at $815,000 for 2024 and Mize…

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