The Detroit Tigers opened the 2024 international signing period on Monday looking to change their long-standing poor fortunes in talent acquisition in the international free agent market. Of course, they’ve said that for a long, long time, and whether the new front office has done so or not, we won’t know for years to come.
This is the second IFA signing period under President of Baseball Ops Scott Harris, but as these relationships often take years to develop, Harris and Rob Metzler, the Tigers VP of Scouting, likely didn’t have much influence last time around. Since taking over, the pair have developed big plans for a new Tigers high tech training academy in the Dominican Republic, but this will take several more years to fully come to fruition.