Lakeland, Fla. — You would be hard-pressed to find anybody on the baseball side of the Tigers organization who doesn’t think James McCann is going to be a productive big-league hitter.
“I’ve said before, I think he’ll hit 15 to 20 homers,” manager Brad Ausmus said over the winter. “I’d like to see him cut down on the strikeouts and I’ve talked to him about this. Especially hitting towards the bottom of the lineup — shorten up and put the ball in play.
“I think that’s where you will see the most dramatic change for him.