The Detroit Tigers are not contenders in 2015.
It pains me to write this as much as it pains you to read it, but if we think this team will magically turn a corner and pull a Kansas City Royals from last year, we are all fooling ourselves and perhaps dooming ourselves to another dark era of Detroit Tigers’ baseball.
If the current era of AL Central titles, playoff adventures, multiple MVPs, and dual Cy Young winners is over–well it has been a helluva ride. We will always lament not winning a World Series when it was within reach, but for those of us who stood by this team for the annual 90- and 100-loss seasons from 1989 to 2005, we greatly enjoyed the ride.