Happy March, everyone! It might seem like Spring Training just got underway, but we\u2019re also already in the same month where MLB games will return to our lives after the long drought of winter. Plus, we\u2019re officially in World Baseball Classic week, as the games will get going this Thursday. We look forward to seeing a lot of Tigers players compete for their countries, and hopefully not make enemies of their own Detroit teammates along the way.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve got some fun tidbits today, including a look at the team\u2019s hottest prospect, and also a seasoned veteran who is relying on his teammates to give him feedback and get him season ready. Plus a look at which team (and which player) might be benefitting the most from the ABS system.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s just get right into it.<\/p>\n
The No. 2 prospect in baseball has raked everywhere in the minors, only slowed by injuries in the two years since the Tigers took him with their second pick in the 2023 draft. He isn\u2019t blocked by a real shortstop in Detroit \u2014 the Javier B\u00e1ez comeback didn\u2019t last, as he hit .223\/.230\/.318 in the second half with one (1) walk and 46 strikeouts in 153 PA. McGonigle\u2019s not a great shortstop defensively, but he\u2019ll be passable for now, and his bat should more than make up for his lack of plus range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy March, everyone! It might seem like Spring Training just got underway, but we\u2019re also already in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,3536,4,3537],"class_list":{"0":"post-601644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-detroit-tigers-news","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116160017413743275","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}