In professional sports, whether picking first or last, you take whatever treasures, or less thrilling knickknacks, Draft Day offers.
This year’s baseball sweepstakes has brought the Tigers one player who can in good conscience be nabbed first overall when the draft gets going at 7 p.m. on June 4.
He is Auburn pitcher Casey Mize.
Mize is looking unmistakably like Rob Manfred’s first man to be bear-hugged when the commissioner steps on stage at Secaucus, N.J., with MLB Network’s cameras at work.
Mize consistently has been the one pitcher, or player, whom those who appraise future big-league talent agree is the closest thing to a genuine first-overall talent.