The 2024 Detroit Tigers were a fun, if improbable, story. Detroit had a losing record at the trade deadline and, reasonably, went into the market as a seller. Then the Tigers got shockingly hot (winning 31 of their final 44 games) and stole a playoff spot, even won a series. Everyone loves a Cinderella story. But it's hard to know how well those slippers fit the next day.
Well, it's 2025 now. And Detroit isn't an underdog anymore. Maybe the Tigers are actually one of the big dogs, one of the overdogs, of the American League.
As we settle into May, the Tigers are 22-13 — that's the best record in the A.