The Detroit Tigers made their message pretty clear to Spencer Torkelson.
So clear that the 2020 No. 1 overall pick hasn't taken a single ground ball at first base this offseason, three-quarters of which he has spent in Arizona. In fact, he hasn't even put his first base glove on.
"The Tigers told me to work on the third-base glove," Torkelson said Friday, "so that's what I've been doing. ... Extremely happy over at third base. Just want to get more repetitions at game speed. As much as possible."
Torkelson's mission to play third base began during summer camp in July and at the alternate training site in Toledo in August and early September.