Goals for the 2018 Detroit Tigers must be modest ones. “Don’t be awful” is a reasonable starting point in negotiations. However, job No. 1 for the Tigers is to build up their pitching staff. The proposed rebuild will have many facets, but one constant is that pitching wins baseball games more often than not. Bad pitching loses, and for several years the Tigers have seen stacked lineups and strong frontline arms undone by poor support work from the bullpen and the back half of the rotation.
The man tasked with turning this trend around, is new pitching coach Chris Bosio.