Detroit — It's all up to the players.
That's been the message, delivered practically daily by the players themselves, and even occasionally the coaching staff, since even before the Tigers commenced "Summer Camp" at Comerica Park.
That's the only way Major League Baseball is going to get through this increasingly bizarre, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants, 60-games-and-dropping regular-season schedule.
"Yeah, completely, we have," said Tigers starter Matthew Boyd, the team's player rep for the union. "When the news comes out, it's reinforced, it's brought back to the surface.