The Detroit Tigers went into the regular season hoping to take the next step as a franchise following a splashy winter coming off back-to-back runs within a game of their first ALCS appearance in over a decade.

While free agency signings are nice, the lifeblood of any MLB franchise is the farm system , and it was always going to take both internal development from players already in the big leagues as well as new faces to help jumpstart things.

No one is a better example of this perhaps across all of baseball than Detroit's rookie and top prospect Kevin McGonigle , who looks like not just a future star , but already arguably the best non-Tarik Skubal player on the Tigers.

While he has received a ton of deserved fanfare, one statistic in particular highlights just how absurd and historic the first month of his career has been for Detroit.

Tigers Seeing McGonigle Post Historic Start in Terms of WAR

Detroit Tigers third baseman Kevin McGonigle | Junfu Han / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Entering the…