A new year of major league baseball is underway, and hope springs eternal. For Detroit Tigers first baseman, Spencer Torkelson, that hope revolves around finding some solid footing at the major league level and becoming something like the slugger the club hoped they had drafted back in 2020. The problem is that hope may be the worst thing for him at this point.
Right now, Torkelson doesn’t have a spot on the active roster. Colt Keith was informed months ago that he’d be moving to first base, and the Tigers added free agent Gleyber Torres to provide some of the right-handed stick that Torkelson hasn’t provided outside of one sustained outburst in 2023.