The Detroit Tigers have used the Rule 5 draft to bring new talent into their system. Sometimes it works out well, as it did with Chris Shelton in 2003. The jury is still out on their last two picks, Daniel Stumpf in 2017 and Victor Reyes last season, although neither look like they will be big pieces of the team’s future.
However, neither will be remembered as the worst Rule 5 pick in Tigers history. That distinction belongs to right-hander Lino Urdaneta, who was taken in 2003, the same year the Tigers plucked Shelton.