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Top prospects not rising from Mud Hens anytime soon

Toledo — This is not what the Tigers wanted. It’s not what those traditionally faithful Mud Hens fans had in mind.

But it’s reality in 2015. Detroit’s top-rung farm team has been slogging through a season in which problems, many problems, have been obvious.

There aren’t enough good players at the Tigers’ Triple A incubator. It’s how you get socked with the 45-63 record Toledo owned heading into Monday night’s game against Lehigh Valley at Fifth Third Field.

A primary problem is that players who were expected to have big seasons have instead floundered, notably Steven Moya, the 6-foot-7, 260-pound right fielder who arrived at the ballpark Monday with a .