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Six months after being shut down, Tigers prospect Franklin Perez still not throwing

Bob Wojnowski and Chris McCosky review the Tigers' 114-loss season and project the starting lineup for the 2020 season. The Detroit News

San Diego — Franklin Perez is 22 years old. There are 200 pounds of lean muscle on his 6-foot-3 frame. He’s a powerfully built, athletic right-handed pitcher considered to be the key prize in the trade that sent Justin Verlander to Houston in 2017.

And yet, here we are, two-plus years later and he still can’t throw a baseball. He has pitched in nine games in his two seasons in the Tigers’ organization, just two last year — a whopping total of 27 innings.