Detroit Tigers selected 5 more players Thursday, Day 2 of 2020 MLB draft, after taking Spencer Torkelson No. 1 overall Wednesday. A look at the class. Wochit
The Detroit Tigers had a strong, clear plan for this strange, shrunken, five-round MLB draft, and they followed it with precision: Draft any player who ever played third base at Arizona State. Or practiced at third base at Arizona State. Or signed to play at Arizona State. Or, well, ever stopped in Arizona on a layover.
And you know what? It worked to perfection.
“In a short draft, we got impact,” Scott Pleis, the Tigers' director of amateur scouting, said late Thursday.