The Detroit Tigers currently have six minor league players among their top 30 prospects who are unprotected from the December 14th Rule Five draft. They also have nine open spots on the 40-man roster with which to protect them all. But of course, that isn’t going to happen. The Tigers will want to leverage their first overall pick to select an unprotected player. Someone will have to be unprotected. Possibly multiple someones.
Teams have to finish that decision-making progress today.
Names like Mike Gerber, Gregory Soto, Gerson Moreno and Grayson Greiner are presumably off the off the table.