Detroit – From March through September, Tigers director of international operations Tom Moore was, like most of the baseball industry, shut down.
Instead of his scouts scouring the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Columbia, Australia and the Far East for teenage prospects, he was stuck in his office in Lakeland doing skills-building exercises with his staff and pouring through all the video and reports he could get his hands on from his contacts world-wide.
And now the international signing period is just two months away – pushed from July 2 to Jan. 15.
“We’ve kept in touch with certain players, target players of ours, players we’ve had interest in,” Moore said in a Zoom interview Thursday.