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Why Detroit Tigers making 2020 playoffs isn't as crazy as you think

With the Detroit Tigers' March 30 home opener canceled due to the coronavirus, we recreated photos from past years at Comerica Park. Detroit Free Press

Nobody can fake being good for 162 games. That’s the beauty of baseball.

If the Detroit Tigers were playing a normal season, in a normal year, there is no way they could contend for the playoffs.

But what will they do in a wild, abbreviated, mad-dash, 60-game sprint?

During a pandemic?

It’s not crazy to think the Tigers will have a shot to play meaningful games in late August or even September.