Projecting the Erie SeaWolves and Toledo Mud Hens starting rotations

When we think of a roster crunch in a team’s farm system, usually we’re talking about a very isolated issue revolving around one premium defensive positin. Maybe you have two or three shortstops all in the same stage in their development, and the time comes to move one to second or third base. Or you have multiple catching prospects piling up on each other in the upper minors. Typically, these aren’t difficult to resolve.

Less common, is to run into the issue with starting pitchers, particularly across two levels of a farm system. Yet the Tigers’ pitching heavy rebuild now has them in a spot where they have many more starting pitching prospects than there are starts to allocate to them. And…