What can be expected, as much as anything is certain about Major League Baseball’s draft in 2020, is that Commissioner Rob Manfred will step before a socially distanced camera on June 10 and make official a not-so-newsy news item.
Unless money issues turn whacky, Spencer Torkelson of Arizona State University figures to be the Tigers’ choice with the 2020 draft’s first overall pick. Torkelson is a mashing right-handed hitter and first baseman seemingly headed for Detroit.
The Tigers will not be finished. The next day, they will pick five times in this year’s MLB sweepstakes, which has been pruned to five rounds because of a 2020 pandemic that has toppled baseball schedules at all levels.