The Detroit Tigers signed a few notable draft picks today and didn’t have a problem opening up their pocket books while doing it. Starting off the day it was announced that first round draft pick Rick Porcello was signed to a huge $7.3M four-year major league contract, “the biggest ever guaranteed to a high school player signed out of the draft” says Danny Knobler. They were not done there as they shell out $800k to pick up their 5th round pick in Casey Crosby and another $1.5M for Cale Iorg.

This is a pretty exciting time to be a Tiger fan. Mike Ilitch clearly wants to maintain a winning team and the current team, while slumping, is battling for the division title.

It’s also a good time to take a look at where some of the other players drafted are and how they are doing so far. Below is a breakout of the top draft picks who have been signed already and already playing ball in the Tigers farm system.

2007 Draft Pitchers

2007 Draft non-Pitchers

The two standouts here are Charlie Furbush who has already been kicking butt with the West Michigan Whitecaps and Danny Worth who is being effective in Lakeland.