As if this season wasn’t bad enough already, the Detroit Tigers are starting to look like a competitive team again. Yes, the same Detroit Tigers that traumatized Cleveland throughout the first half of the 2010’s are slowly emerging from their rebuilding cocoon.
Granted, this still isn’t the same Tigers of old, and there is no guarantee they will be. Miguel Cabrera is still there, but he’s not the same Miguel Cabrera. Their emergence this time around is supposed to be built on homegrown pitching with Casey Mize, Matt Manning, and Tarik Skubal as their version of the Big Three.