Kevin McGonigle (Mud Hens photo)

The Detroit Tigers are looking to improve in 2026 so they can advance even further than they did last year in the playoffs.

Detroit News veteran baseball writer Lynn Henning writes that there is reason to be excited about the Tigers' top prospect, Kevin McGonigle, 21, who currently plays for the Toledo Mud Hens.

He writes:

It can sound like indefensible hype. It can be interpreted as too much anointing too soon. And yet it is quite possible that McGonigle has the best bat-to-ball skills of any Tigers prospect since a man named Al Kaline arrived in 1953. No prospect in recent Tigers generations has shown at this early of an age the ability to hit – hard – pitches of velocity and spin. McGonigle will go to spring camp in February with a chance to convinc

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