Well don’t look now but it’s 2022 all over again in the Detroit Tigers spring training camp. We were more innocent then. Still dreamers in fact. It’s been a rough go in the interim, but once again their two former first overall picks, Casey Mize and Spencer Torkelson, are making noise in spring camp. Let’s take a look and get back into expectation management mode.
We’ll get to Torkelson in a moment, but of the two, Casey Mize is the one who has come closest to living up to expectations. Apart from the long absence to recover from UCL reconstruction for much of the 2022 season and all of the 2023 campaign, he’s basically been a league average starting pitcher.