Exactly where all these new Tigers are supposed to play isn’t yet clear. Probably because the Tigers are still trying to deal with the reality that a baseball roster skinny on bats now must confront — ideally, anyway — a potential I-696-style, rush-hour traffic jam of position contestants, much of which arrived courtesy of last month’s MLB Draft.
Spencer Torkelson? The guy even Detroit’s front-office bosses quietly acknowledge could be playing in Detroit in a year or so? He’s at third base, which is interesting, given that former top-gun prospect hitter Isaac Paredes was looking like the answer at third.