Less than 24 hours into his professional career, Peyton Graham, the Tigers’ second-round pick in his year’s MLB draft, was already pondering his first big-league brawl.
Actually, he was laughing about the Tigers’ adding more fuel to an already-fiery draft class Monday, with a 10th-round pick that just might stoke a simmering college rivalry. The Tigers closed out Day 2 of the draft by selecting Graham’s Oklahoma teammate, Trevin Michael, a right-handed relief pitcher he describes as “another fireball.”
The first of those, of course, came Sunday night when the Tigers used the 12th overall pick in the draft to select Texas Tech second baseman Jace Jung, a self-described “sparkplug” who “just loves starting things.”
