Detroit Tigers selected 5 more players Thursday, Day 2 of 2020 MLB draft, after taking Spencer Torkelson No. 1 overall Wednesday. A look at the class. Wochit
Sixteen winters ago, Scott Boras introduced himself to Detroit by first identifying its potential.
Boras, whose top clients in the early 2000s often went elsewhere — to play for teams that won, in more glamorous cities, for more money — had a superstar catcher in free agency on the wrong side of 30 with health concerns and few suitors.
Boras also had Mike Ilitch, the longtime Detroit Tigers owner with lots of money and lots of frustration over losing baseball games.