It was a different kind of year on the Tigers farm in 2017.
And that was good news for a big-league team that needs more than a few bright lights to shine if a club’s remodeling project is to proceed with promise.
Some of the developments came from existing players whose talents and upside delivered at least on a par with what might have been expected. Others arrived following a string of summer trades.
A look at the best, worst, and in-between efforts from a newsy season on the Tigers farm.
u25a0 PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Mike Gerber, OF, 25, Erie/Toledo: Gerber missed a bunch of mid-season games with an oblique, but otherwise was the organization’s best, and most consistent, hitter through 92 games at Erie and in a late-season taste of Toledo.