Good news for you Detroit Tigers prospects fans. Yesterday, MLB Pipeline released its Top 30 International Prospect list. According to the list, the Tigers could land a pair of shortstops in Cristian Santana (13th overall) and Abel Bastidas (26th overall).
The writeups are strong for both players. Santana in the write-up gets comparisons to a young Jhonny Peralta, a former Tigers shortstop. Santana is a right-handed bat and as you can see in the video below, good repeatability in his swing mechanics and from this couch scout’s point of view, solid defense range that will probably grow as he gets more reps when he gets to instructional ball in Lakeland.