At the beginning of the season, the Tigers were asked a lot — to a bit of an annoying degree — what their team identity was. It's sort of a fair question; the Tigers are one of the youngest and most inexperienced teams in the league, but they still managed to do the impossible at the end of last season and break a decade-long postseason drought.
The answer to that question has clarified itself this year. The Tigers have had pitching chaos straight from the mind of AJ Hinch, but third base coach Joey Cora is responsible for the other real identifier that's emerged for Detroit.