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Home run pick: Tigers take powerful Spencer Torkelson No. 1 in MLB Draft

Detroit – No snags, no 11th-hour snafus, no surprises.

With the first pick in the 2020 Major League Baseball amateur draft, the Detroit Tigers did indeed select Spencer Torkelson, a right-handed hitting first baseman from Arizona State on Wednesday night.

With the Tigers organizationally heavy in elite pitching prospects, they made no secret of their desire to add an impact, middle-of-the-order bat, and with Torkelson, they got what draft experts believe is the best of the bunch.

“This is a guy, his bat is somewhere between Kris Bryant and Pete Alonso,” said former Cincinnati Reds GM and CBS sports analyst Jim Bowden.