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Why Detroit Tigers took Reed Garrett in Rule 5 draft

Free Press' Anthony Fenech dissects Tigers free agency from Winter Meetings, Nicholas Castellanos trade talk, Rule 5 pick & more, Dec. 13, Las Vegas.

LAS VEGAS — After last season’s struggle to find Victor Reyes playing time in the outfield, the Detroit Tigers went a different direction in Thursday’s Rule 5 draft.

With the No. 5 pick, the team selected Reed Garrett, a reliever from the Texas Rangers organization who will arrive in spring training with an inside track at making his major-league debut.

Garrett, who turns 26 in January, is coming off his strongest professional season, in which he posted a 2.