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Fast cash: Tigers waste little time, sign first-round pick Riley Greene for $6.1M

Detroit — That's a whole lot of video games and fishing poles.

Riley Greene, the Tigers' first-round draft pick out of suburban Orlando, Fla., has agreed to a contract just two days after he was selected No. 5 overall in the Major League Baseball Draft.

It's one of the quickest early round contract agreements in recent memory for the Tigers.

Greene's high-school coach Matt Cleveland told The Detroit News that Greene signed for approximately the slot assignment, which is valued at more than $6.