Detroit — The Tigers have few issues at catcher at the major-league level, but you can never have enough.
And so, on the second day of the Major League Baseball draft Tuesday, they kicked things off by taking right-handed-hitting catcher Joey Morgan from the University of Washington.
Morgan, a junior, is a Johnny Bench semifinalist who batted .324 with five homers, 45 RBIs and a .500 slugging percentage this past season.
The 6-foot, 183-pounder also threw out 13 of 27 would-be base-stealers.
DIBaseball.com ranked him the top catcher in the nation earlier this season, and he earned All-Pac 12 honors and was a second-team All-American, by Baseball America’s standards.