This weekend saw a rash of MLB injury news that involved some prominent players who will be missing significant time.
The Detroit Tigers were a popular pick to be the bad team that made significant strides in 2022. That has not come to pass — Detroit is 24-35 on the season, and their -74 run differential is the third worst in the American League.
A bad year got worse on Friday with the news that righthanded pitcher Casey Mize, the #1 overall pick in the 2018 draft, would need Tommy John surgery. Mize, who just turned 25, had a nice year for the Tigers in 2021, putting up a 3.