Thursday afternoon, the Detroit Tigers announced that right-handed pitching prospects Matt Manning and Alex Faedo have been shut down for the year. In the announcement, they were classified as having the same injury, namely, a slight strain of the right forearm.
The opinion of many Tigers fans, and some scouts, is that Manning is the top prospect in the Detroit system. That’s a contested title considering the number of high quality pitching prospects that Al Avila has accumulated during his tenure as the Tigers’ General Manager, but it gives a sense of how highly regarded the club’s first round selection from 2016 has become.