After years and years of eating mud in the league’s cellar, it’s beyond refreshing for Tigers fans to see light at the end of the tunnel. Detroit’s high draft positioning and gradual buy-in to modern techniques of coaching and developing players has taken longer to yield results than it could have if better decisions had been made upfront, but it is finally showing signs of paying off beyond simply tanking for top first round picks.
All the things that are falling into place now would have felt heaven-sent four years ago. The Tigers have top prospects thriving at every level of the organization.