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MLB 2020 Draft - Tigers Draft Spencer Torkelson #1 And sign him to $8.4 Million Bonus

https://motorcitybengals.com/2020/10/14/detroit-tigers-international-signing/
Detroit Tigers International Signing Preview.
MCBTB

The international signing period doesn?t officially begin until January 15th, but a new report from Baseball America gives us a better idea of who the Detroit Tigers are going to sign.

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2020/1...christian-santana-abel-bastidas-2020-2021-ifa
Tigers expected to sign SS Christian Santana, other IFAs in January.
The list of international players expected to sign with Detroit has a few other interesting guys as well.
BYBTB
 
Mickey Tettleton knows a lot about plate discipline and power. A catcher/DH for four teams from 1984-1997, the sweet-swinging switch-hitter logged a 16.5% walk rate and banged out 245 home runs. His wRC+ over that 14-year period was a robust, and somewhat under the radar, 122.

A player that Tettleton tutored in the Cape Cod League possesses similar attributes, as well as a higher ceiling.

?I didn?t get a chance to work with him much, but I think Spencer Torkelson is going to be an absolute star,? Tettleton said of the first-overall pick in this summer?s draft. ?He was in Chatham for about two or three weeks before he went with Team USA, so I had a chance to kind of pick his brain a little bit.
He picked mine as well. More than anything, he?s a little bit? no, not a little bit; he?s a lot ahead of his time as far as what he?s trying to do in an at bat.
That kid has a chance to have a long, long career. He is legitimately a big-league hitter.?

I asked Tettleton if Torkelson ? already the consensus top hitting prospect in the Tigers system ? reminds him of anybody he played with.

?Power-wise, I?d have to go back to Dean Palmer,? responded Tettleton. ?I don?t know if you?ve been to Chatham, but you?d watch [Torkelson] take batting practice, and you?d think, ?Man, this is a fly ball,? and it would end up three quarters of the way up in the trees. He?s just got tremendous raw power.
He?s a very intelligent college hitter [Arizona State] that just happens to have a world of talent swinging the bat.?

The Palmer comp is even more eye-opening when you consider an opinion Tettleton had shared with me a few minutes earlier. When I suggested that Cecil Fielder must have had the most-impressive power among his former teammates, Tettleton said it actually wasn?t. It was Palmer.

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Torkelson really struggling this spring. 1 for 18 so far with 11 strikeouts. That's terrible.
 
tomdalton22 said:
Torkelson really struggling this spring. 1 for 18 so far with 11 strikeouts. That's terrible.
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He didn't even get low level ball after being drafting. Maybe some patienceis required. I'm more worried about Mize.
 
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