Since A.J. Hinch and Chris Fetter came to Detroit following the 2020 season, the Tigers have been in an ongoing overhaul of their minor league player development. That’s par for the course nowadays as teams spent tens of millions of dollars and put enormous effort into finding new edges in developing future major league talent.

However, when they arrived the Tigers were well behind the curve and had a lot of catching up to do, not just in knowledge, but in personnel, facilities, and technology. After their first season as manager and head pitching coach at the major league level, giving them time to evaluate the whole system, the duo were heavily involved in making recommendations to get a moribund development pipeline tuned up into a modern, sustainable source of improvement for their pr

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