The Tigers' big bopper could be returning to the lineup sooner than we dared to hope.
The Tigers just won their first series since before the All Star Break, they did it against the Kansas City Royals, they beat Johnny Cueto in one of those games, and none of this has a whole lot of bearing on their outlook for the postseason. There are so many things wrong with that preceding sentence, let's just take a moment to let all of that juicy wrongness soak in. Practically every one of those statements makes no sense to Tigers fans who have become accustomed to watching the team make postseason run after postseason run in the last several years.