Eight months remain for various young hitters’ biceps to balloon and still be available for the Tigers five picks into next June’s baseball draft.
Detroit finished with the same record in 2018 as in 2017 — 64-98 — but will find itself four draft picks deeper in June because of a baseball season that had a sellout crowd of crummy teams.
The Tigers need a bat, of course. Lots of them. And, as tends to be their fate, there probably will be few of the franchise version unclaimed when they select fifth overall.
The Tigers are rather tired of grabbing first-round pitchers.