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This year’s Tigers farm crop is better, much better, than last year’s. Next year’s lineup should be considerably richer.
It’s one of baseball’s inverse laws: The worse you’re faring at the big-league level, generally anyway, the better your farm system stands to be.
The Tigers are testaments there. Their minor leagues withered while they were regularly spending Octobers in playoff duels. Now that they’re among baseball’s truly needy clubs, old stars have either departed or grown old, trades for youngsters have been the objective, and draft picks will now be earlier and juicier than they have been in years for Detroit.