It’s hard to have any substantive discussion about the Detroit Tigers without the mention of Casey Mize, Matt Manning, and Tarik Skubal. Those three pitchers head up a group of arms considered one of the best anywhere in baseball, also featuring Alex Faedo, Franklin Perez, Joey Wentz, Paul Richan, and more. When Detroit launched into its rebuild, it put all the eggs in the pitching basket, based on the premise that the team would simply buy bats when the time came to compete.
Sports fans are an infamously difficult group of people to please, but at least the complaints regarding the state of the Tigers’ farm has been consistent.