The Detroit Tigers burst onto the scene with an unprecedented run in 2024, overcoming a double-digit deficit within the standings and being sellers on the deadline to earn the No. 2 American League Wild Card berth and snap their nine-year playoff drought.
They’ve continued constructing on that constructive momentum in 2025, cementing themselves as respectable World Sequence contenders, main the MLB with 38 victories because the calendar flips to June.
The Tigers have a chance to construct one thing particular right here with a lot younger expertise already on the Main League roster and dealing their manner by the minor league system.
Over at The Athletic (subscription required), Keith Regulation has shared his up to date prospect rankings, and Detroit is featured prominently within the prime 50.
Three place gamers, center fielder Max Clark, second baseman Kevin McGonigle and shortstop Bryce Rainer, are featured. All possess unbelievable upside and potential as future stars for the staff.
Beginning pitcher Jackson Jobe didn’t qualify for the record since he’s already pitching on the Main League stage and has graduated from prospect rankings.
Alas, there was a fourth participant, catcher/first baseman Thayron Liranzo, however he was one in every of six gamers who have been dropped from the rankings.
As Regulation shared, the rationale for Liranzo falling off his up to date record is the struggles he’s exhibiting with off-speed pitching in his first style of Double-A.
That has led to different shops additionally adjusting his spot in the prospect rankings.
Acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers, together with shortstop Trey Sweeney, forward of the deadline final 12 months, Liranzo was wonderful with Excessive-A West Michigan.
His manufacturing carried over into the Arizona Fall League, the place he had a .375/.492/.667 slash line with two residence runs, six doubles and one triple in solely 59 plate appearances.
Sadly, he has not been in a position to sustain that stage of manufacturing but in 2025.
By 137 plate appearances, Liranzo has a .204/.336/.381 slash line with 5 residence runs and 5 doubles, knocking in 16 runs.
Nonetheless solely 21 years outdated, this might simply be nothing greater than a blip on the radar within the grand scheme of issues.
Liranzo possesses unbelievable uncooked energy and is bettering together with his work behind the plate defensively. The rise in competitors is one thing plenty of younger gamers battle with, and the Tigers ought to stay affected person as he works by some adversity.
