The 2020 season seems far-off now, but planning never stops. On Thursday, the day that should have opened the season, the Tigers optioned Willi Castro and Troy Stokes Jr. to Triple-A Toledo, joining fifteen other players who have been cut from big-league camp. Neither Castro and Stokes Jr. were frontrunners to land jobs with the MLB club, but there was a path to playing time on Opening Day for both of them.
Castro was acquired in a trade with Cleveland in 2018, sent to Detroit in exchange for Leonys Martín and has raked in both Erie and Toledo.