Selected by the Tigers in the first round (fifth overall) of the 2019 MLB Draft out of Hagerty HS (Fla.) (signing scout: R.J. Burgess)...Graduated from Hagerty High School, where he was named the Gatorade Florida Baseball Player of the Year and was a finalist for Gatorade National Player of the Year as a senior in 2019...Prior to his senior season, was named a preseason first-team All-American by Rawlings-Perfect Game...In 2018, started all nine games for USA Baseball’s 18U National Team at the COPABE U-18 Pan-American Championships, batting .424/.548/.848 and leading the team with three home runs and 20 RBI...As a sophomore and junior, Rawlings-Perfect Game named him a first-team preseason underclassman All-American, and a high honorable mention preseason underclassman All-American as a freshman.
2023
Limited to 99 games in 2023 due to two separate stints on the injured list... Made an Opening Day roster at the Major League level for the first time in his career... Hit safely in 10 consecutive games from April 26-May 6, going 15x40 with two doubles, a home run and six RBI... Voted Tigers Player of the Month for May, hitting .365/.435/.573 with nine doubles, one triple, three home runs and 11 RBI...led all qualified American League hitters in batting average during the month, while he was fourth in on-base percentage, fifth in OPS (1.008) and seventh in slugging percentage... Sidelined from May 31-July 7 with a left fibula stress reaction... Named Tigers Player of the Month for July, slashing .343/.405/.537 with four doubles, three home runs and six RBI in 18 games...among American League players with at least 70 plate appearances in the month, he ranked ninth in batting average... Launched a 453-foot solo homer on Aug. 10 vs. Minnesota...was the longest homer of his career, tied for the fifth longest by a Tiger at Comerica Park in the Statcast Era and the longest by a Tigers player age 23-or-younger in the Statcast Era (since 2015)... Tied a career high with four RBI on Aug. 16 at Minnesota, recording three hits, including a triple and a home run... Hit safely in 50-of-62 games from April 26-Aug. 16, batting .340/.399/.546 with 18 doubles, two triples, nine home runs and 27 RBI... Recorded his 200th career hit with a single in the third inning on Aug. 27 vs. Houston...became just the 16th Tiger in franchise history to reach 200 hits before his 23rd birthday... Placed on the injured list on Sept. 2 with a right elbow sprain and missed the rest of the season.
2022
Saw the first Major League action of his career in 2022, playing in 93 games....Voted Tiger of the Year by the Detroit chapter of the BBWAA and Tigers Rookie of the Year by the Detroit Sports Media Association....Began the season on the injured list with a right foot fracture and was reinstated on May 30....Made his Major League debut on June 18 vs. Texas, reaching base in four plate appearances, going 2x3 with two walks and two runs scored...became the first Tigers player to reach base four times in their big league debut since Scott Livingstone on July 19, 1991 at Kansas City....Drew multiple walks in each of his first two big league games, the fourth Major Leaguer since the start of 2010 to do so (others: Travis Demeritte, 2019; Travis d’Arnaud, 2013; Anthony Rizzo, 2011)... joined Demeritte as the only players in Tigers history to do so....Had a pair of hits on June 21 at Boston and reached base multiple times in each of his first four Major League games, becoming the fourth Tiger to do so and the first since Hub Walker in 1931....Drove in the first run of his Major League career on June 25 at Arizona....Hit his first big league home run on July 2 vs. Kansas City, a walk-off solo shot...became the seventh player in franchise history to have his first homer come on a walk-off, and first since Lou Whitaker in 1978....Reached base safely in 16 of his first 17 Major League games, the first Tiger to do so since Quintin Berryin 2012.... Had a game-tying RBI single with two outs in the ninth inning on July 26 vs. San Diego... marked his second career game-tying or go-ahead hit in the ninth inning (other, July 3 vs. Kansas City)....Launched the first leadoff home run of his big league career on Aug. 21 vs. Los Angeles (AL), hitting a 448-foot shot off Shohei Ohtani...was the longest homer surrendered by Ohtani in his Major League career and was the longest leadoff homer for a Tigers hitter in the Statcast Era (since 2015).... Drove in a season-high four runs and had three hits, including a triple and a home run, on Aug. 26 at Texas....Voted Tigers Player of the Month for August, hitting .265/.311/.434 with six doubles, two triples, three home runs and 15 RBI.... Hit safely in 13 consecutive games from Aug. 20-Sept. 4, slashing .396/.458/.623 with two doubles, two triples, two home runs and six RBI...the streak was the second-longest by a rookie in the Majors during the season and the longest by a Tigers rookie since Milt Cuyler had a 15-game streak in 1991....Had a 20-game, on-base streak from Aug. 20-Sept. 14...was the longest streak by a Tigers player during the season and was the longest by a Detroit rookie since Austin Jackson reached base in 25 straight games in 2010.
2021
Earned Tigers Minor League Player of the Year honors in 2021 after hitting .301/.387/.534 with 25 doubles, eight triples, 24 home runs and 84 RBI in 124 games between Double-A Erie and Triple-A Toledo...Ranked fourth in Minor League Baseball with 146 hits, while he was tied for sixth with 259 total bases and tied for seventh with 95 runs scored...Named a Minor League All-Star by Baseball America and a Tigers Organization All-Star by MiLB.com...Hit a pair of solo home runs May 20 vs. Binghamton...also homered twice on September 5 at Omaha...Reached base safely in all five plate appearances June 19 vs. Altoona, going 30for-3 with a double, a triple, a home run, four RBI and two walks...Selected Double-A Northeast Offensive Player of the Week for the week ending Aug. 15 after hitting .500/.536/1.154 with three doubles, one triple, four home runs and 12 RBI...homered in four straight games from Aug. 12-14...Ranked as the No. 5 prospect in the Tigers organization, the No. 31 prospect overall, the third-best prospect in Double-A Northeast and No. 4 prospect in Triple-A East by Baseball America...also rated as possessing the best outfield arm in the Tigers system.
2020
Spent the entire 2020 season at the club’s Alternate Training Site in Toledo...Ranked as the No. 4 prospect in the Tigers organization and the No. 49 prospect overall by Baseball America.
2019
Began his professional career in 2019, seeing time at three different levels of the Tigers Minor League system...Had an impressive debut on June 24 vs. the GCL Blue Jays, hitting a pair of home runs and finishing the game 4x5 with a double and five RBI...Added a second four-hit game and scored three runs on July 6 vs. the GCL Yankees West...Played in 19 games with Single A Connecticut in July, batting .306/.383/.417 with three doubles, one triple, one home run and six RBI...Homered and drove in a pair of runs in his first game with Single A West Michigan on August 8 vs. Bowling Green...Rated as the second-best prospect in the New York-Penn League by Baseball America.
