Baseball America released their organizational talent rankings for the 2019 season earlier this month. The Detroit Tigers find themselves placed dead in the middle at 15th, wedged between the Seattle Mariners (14th) and the Cleveland Indians (16th). For comparison, Detroit’s other American League Central rivals rank sixth (Chicago White Sox), seventh (Minnesota Twins), and 27th (Kansas City), essentially making the Tigers a middle-of-the-pack team in their own division as well, according to this assessment.
Long accustomed to using their prospects as trade chips under former general manager Dave Dombrowski, the Tigers are now trying to build from within.