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Yingling to Sign With Tigers

By STEVE HENSON
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Catcher Joe Yingling, Ventura County player of the year, said he will sign today with the Detroit Tigers and report to fall instructional league at Lakeland, Fla., in mid-September.

Yingling, 17, was a 35th-round draft choice of the Tigers in June, but did not decide until Tuesday to sign instead of attending Moorpark College. Yingling, 6 feet 1 and 185 pounds, batted .563 at Camarillo High last season and helped the Conejo Valley Big League team win the World Series on Saturday.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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