After a short and surprising winning homestand, the Detroit Tigers make a brief 3-game road trip deep in the heart of Texas. They’ll take on a Rangers team that also came into the year with dreams of contending, but saw their plans crumble.
The similarities between the two teams, at least on the surface, are rather remarkable. Both enjoyed sustained success from 2010-2016, regularly making the postseason and both reaching the World Series but coming up short. Both embarked on rebuilding around 2017 and both spent heavily this winter as they envisioned their young core meshing with big free agents to take them back to winning ways.