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Draft profile: Mom’s sacrifices led Myers to Tigers

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Editor’s note: Latest in a series looking at the Tigers’ first 10 draft picks.

It’s no secret that the odds of making the major leagues, and sticking in the major leagues, are excruciatingly long, even for, say, a sixth-round draft pick like Dane Myers.

Myers, though, has beaten the odds all his life.

So, really, what’s one more challenge?

“There were times when I decided if it was going to be groceries for the week or getting him to a weekend tournament,” said Rhonda Myers, Dane’s mother. “And somehow, we always made it.