Your average 19-year-old baseball prospect is working this summer with the minor-league minnows, maybe on a farm system’s back lots.
Isaac Paredes, who is 19 but anything but average, last week hopped a plane bound for Double-A Erie.
He liked his new home that isn’t far, geographically or developmentally, from Detroit and Comerica Park. He dug it so much he decided in his first two games for the SeaWolves to rack up four hits and three walks.
But a word about that promotion. There was another time in Tigers annals when a teen shortstop got a summer ticket to Double A.