Fansided · Sep 11, 2025
Tigers' record-setting minor league team could help determine Tarik Skubal's future
Whitecaps' Izaac Pacheco throws out a Lugnuts batter in the second inning on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at Jackson Field in Lansing. 230411 Lugnuts Whitecaps Baseball 130a | Nick King/Lansing State Journal / USA TODAY NETWORKEvery single one of the Tigers' minor league affiliates from Single- to Triple-A have put up winning records this season, but none are doing it as well as the High-A West Michigan Whitecaps. They finished out their first half with a 44-21 (.677) record and are 48-18 (.727) in the second half for an overall 92-39 (.702) mark, the best by any minor league team since the High-A Modesto Nuts in 1994, when they posted a .706 winning percentage.