Given that this is the Major League Baseball Draft, where in the span of minutes a front office’s plans can be turned into confetti, it’s possible the Tigers will pull a surprise with their second overall pick on June 11, which will begin the 2020 draft’s four-round second phase.
The first pick will presumably have been locked up the night before, on June 10, when Detroit is expected to anoint Arizona State first baseman Spencer Torkelson as the 2020 beauty pageant’s first overall selection.
As every rival club in either league knows, the Tigers would prefer to swipe another bat with that first pick of the second round, the 38th overall.