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2023 AL Central Preview: Detroit Tigers

The Detroit Tigers lost 96 games in 2022. Their offseason response was to add Matthew Boyd, Michael Lorenzen, Nick Maton, and Matt Vierling while gutting the best part of their team — their bullpen — by trading away Gregory Soto and Joe Jiménez and letting Andrew Chafin depart in free agency. Their best pitcher in 2022, Tarik Skubal, is out for an indeterminate amount of time after having flexor tendon surgery.

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2022 in review

Hi, my name is Quincy Wheeler and I was one of the people who thought I knew something about baseball and thought the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Guardians would be competing for second place in the AL Central in 2022.