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Five Tigers make MLB Pipeline’s updated list of top 100 prospects
The Detroit Tigers’ rebuild trudges on, but their farm system appears to be accumulating a talented group of prospects.
MLB Pipeline on Tuesday night unveiled its reranking of the top 100 prospects, with the Tigers boasting five players on the list, led by outfielder Max Clark at No. 7 and righthanded pitcher Jackson Jobe at No. 8.
The Tigers are one of three teams with two prospects in the top 10, joining the Baltimore Orioles and Tampa Bay Rays, and are one short of the sharing the top spot for most prospects in the top 100, trailing the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Guardians, Seattle Mariners, Colorado Rockies and Minnesota Twins, who have six apiece.
Other Tigers in MLB Pipeline’s top 100 are infielder Kevin McGonigle (No. 33), shortstop Bryce Rainer (No. 61) and third baseman Jace Jung (No. 64).
MLB Pipeline’s reranking follows a similar update in late July from Baseball America, which placed six Tigers among its updated top 100. Single-A West Michigan starting pitcher Jaden Hamm also made Baseball America’s list, at No. 100.
Just like he was on Baseball America’s list, Jobe is the top-ranked pitcher, according to MLB Pipeline. The 22-year-old is at Double-A Erie. In 12 starts at 53.2 innings pitched there, he owns a 2.01 ERA and 1.08 WHIP with 58 strikeouts. Erie opponents are hitting .167 off of him.
McGonigle was MLB Pipeline’s biggest debut for prospects not from July’s MLB Draft, after he was unranked in the preseason list. A second-round pick from 2023, McGonigle recently was promoted to West Michigan from low Single-A Lakeland with Clark, but hit the injured list this week with a right hamate fracture.
McGonigle is hitting a combined .309 in 272 at-bats between Lakeland and West Michigan, with a .401 on-base percentage and .853 OPS, and was considered a “significant” riser in Baseball America’s updated rankings. He was off to a slow start at West Michigan, hitting .214 in his first 14 games there.
Clark, the No. 3 overall pick from 2023, is hitting .295 since his promotion, after slashing .286/.386/.807 at Lakeland, with 26 stolen bases.
Rainer was the Tigers’ top pick in July, at No. 11 overall, while Jung has transitioned to third base at Triple-A Toledo, with 15 home runs and an .858 OPS.
MLB Pipeline also updated its top 30 lists for each team. Switch-hitting catcher Thayron Liranzo, acquired at the trade deadline in the package the Tigers received from the Los Angeles Dodgers for Jack Flaherty, is No. 6 among Tigers prospects, one of four prospects in the top 30 acquired at the deadline, joining righthander Joseph Montalvo (No. 18), shortstop Trey Sweeney (No. 20), and righthander Eric Silva (No. 29).
Liranzo and Montalvo are at West Michigan, Silva is at Erie and Sweeney at Toledo.
A Detroit woman was arrested in the aftermath of a hit-and-run collision and shooting on Interstate 94, Michigan State Police reported.
Emergency dispatchers were called shortly after midnight Saturday about the altercation. Troopers reported the caller said while they were driving eastbound on I-94, near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, a black Jeep sideswiped them and sped off.
The caller then decided to follow the Jeep.
In response, police said, the driver of the Jeep fired several gunshots in the caller’s direction.
None of the gunshots struck the vehicle.
Troopers were able to use license plate reader camera technology to locate the Jeep while it was on the Lodge Freeway, made a traffic stop. The driver and two passengers were taken into custody without incident.
The passengers were released shortly afterwards; troopers believe that the 19-year-old driver was the shooter. She has been lodged pending further review by the prosecutor’s office.
In addition, a firearm was recovered from the vehicle.
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Boston — Not a bad place for big-league debut.
The Tigers on Friday placed Zach McKinstry on the 10-day injured list and called up infield prospect Hao-Yu Lee from Triple-A Toledo. He was in the lineup against the Red Sox, batting eighth at Fenway Park.
“We’re excited for Lee to get his feet wet in the big leagues,” manager AJ Hinch said. “He’s a good player. We’ve had him in big league camp the last two years. He hits the ball hard and can play good defense. Now he’s getting his first look at one of the cathedrals in our sport for his debut.”
Part of the decision to call up Lee, and not Jace Jung or Trei Cruz, Hinch said, was where the Tigers are in the schedule. Including Friday against Ranger Suarez, the Tigers will be facing six lefties in the next 12 games.
The right-handed hitting Lee slugged .558 with a .969 OPS against lefties last season.
Coming off an oblique injury this spring, which kept him from playing for Chinese Taipei in the WBC, he’s off to a slow start at Toledo (4 for 26).
“He’s been swinging it better than his numbers indicate,” Hinch said. “Results are so finicky this time of year. He’s coming off a good day (Wednesday). He hit a home run. So it’s good timing for that. He’s been hitting it hard and making good decisions on what to swing at.
“And that is key in transitioning from Triple-A to the big leagues.”
McKinstry exited Wednesday night’s game against the Royals ahead of the eighth inning of the Tigers’ 2-1 victory. He fell hard on the hip twice. Once on a head-first slide at the plate and the other after he was tripped up by Royals’ Jac Caglianone.
“He’s pretty beat up,” Hinch said. “We didn’t want to play short-handed but we’re also hoping to get him back quickly.”
McKinstry stayed back in Detroit and is expected to undergo further evaluations.
“He was doing better today than he was yesterday,” Hinch said. “But he clearly needed a break to heal up.”
Lee, 23, was not made available to the media until after the game. He is No. 6 among the Tigers’ top 30 prospects, according to MLB Pipeline, and was acquired by the Tigers in an August 2023 trade that sent starting pitcher Michael Lorenzen to the Philadelphia Phillies.
Around the horn
Justin Verlander (hip inflammation) did not make the trip to Boston. “We have to respect the soreness and inflammation that he’s dealing with,” Hinch said. “He’s working out and he’s doing everything. It’s just going a little bit slower. We’re going to respect it and give him the time he needs.”
… Lefty reliever Bailey Horn (elbow), who has had his throwing program paused, received a cortisone shot Thursday.
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