DETROIT ― Scott Harris didn’t want to break the news to Kevin McGonigle through the media, but he kind of did.

“I’m not going to announce that he’s going to be in major-league camp,” Harris said Monday, during his hour-long, wide-ranging, season-ending press conference. “Because I should probably tell him before I announce it.”

Yeah, you can probably consider that as official as it gets, without actually being official.

“I’ll fly to Phoenix,” said Tigers manager AJ Hinch, “and I’ll tell Kevin myself.”

McGonigle, Max Clark, Josue Briceno and perhaps some other top prospects are poised to receive invites to big-league camp in Lakeland, Florida, next February, and they won’t be token gestures.

While Harris and Hinch tried to dissect what went right and what went wrong with the Tigers’ se

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