Tigers' Kevin McGonigle is making history with a start that has Hall of Fame comps

Editor’s note: This is a Weird and Wild short. To read the main W&W column, click or tap here. So what’s on your calendar in July 2051? If you were smart, you would already be booking your rooms in Cooperstown, N.Y. … for Kevin McGonigle’s Hall of Fame induction.Wait. What’s that you just read? That we’re already looking forward to the Hall of Fame speech of a guy who is only 21 years old, who has played nearly 3,000 fewer games for those Detroit Tigers than Al Kaline and who is still (let’s see now) 499 homers short of the 500-Homer Club?Yes, that’s what we said, all right. Now we bet you’d like to know why. OK, here’s why.Heading into the Tigers’ game Thursday, their rookie infield wizard was on pace for this:92 walks 84 strikeoutsHave we mentioned in the last three paragraphs that … he’s 21?Advertisement