Who is John Schreiber and Why Should You Care?
I was engaging on a popular Tigers Facebook page when I suggested that John Schreiber would be the first Tigers prospect to find his way to Detroit this season. Barring an injury to a position player that could lead to Christin Stewart and/or Mike Gerber getting the call, I stand by that prediction. One of the users on that Facebook page responded with "Who?" So it was at that point I realized that, outside of a very intimate group in the Tigers Twitter community, "John Schreiber" isn't a name that many people have heard...yet. So who is this guy and why do I think he will be the first one to get the call-up this season? Interestingly, Schreiber is a Michigan native who played his high school ball at Gibraltar Carlson High School, just south of Detroit. Only one college came calling after he graduated H.S. in 2012 and it was Henry Ford Community College, where Schreiber spent his first season of collegiate ball laboring with a 7.36 ERA in 29.1 IP. The ...