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Making sense of Detroit Tigers' near-perfect draft class — and the hard part that's yet to come

Detroit Tigers selected 5 more players Thursday, Day 2 of 2020 MLB draft, after taking Spencer Torkelson No. 1 overall Wednesday. A look at the class. Wochit

At the end of the night, Scott Pleis hadn't changed the polo shirt he wore earlier in the day — it was the same purple- and white-striped shirt he'd sported during a midday video conference call.

Because if he'd done his job right, on his biggest day of the year, the future of the Tigers franchise will dramatically change.

When Pleis, the Detroit Tigers’ amateur scouting director since 2011, returned on video, shortly after 10 p.