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Prospect Roberto Campos starting to show why Tigers spent big bucks on Cuban outfielder

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He had two more hits Saturday evening for Single-A Lakeland, which pumped Roberto Campos’ batting average for June to .382 — with on-base (.488) and slugging (.500) tag-ons contributing to an OPS of .988.

Peel back to games beginning May 26 and Campos is batting .332.

So, this is why the Tigers three years ago gave Campos more money ($2.85 million) than they had ever dished out for an international teen.