Heading into the 2019 season, if you had told Detroit Tigers fans that their favorite club would only be a couple of games behind the Cleveland Indians in early May, I think a lot of people would have been quite pleased. Cleveland was the odds-on favorite to win the division again, with some preseason projections listing them as a World Series favorite — because of their near-certain odds of making the playoffs.
Well, here we are. It is May 3 and the Tigers are just 2 1⁄2 games behind the Tribe in the AL Central.