For fans who are in shock over the Detroit Tigers’ total meltdown, don’t be. That’s the message from Lynn Henning, one of the nation’s premier baseball writers, who retired from the Detroit News but still cranks out stories for the publication.

He writes on X:

"Disposition about this Tigers tumble: Not a total surprise, for this (among many reasons): Team is still very young: Greene 24, Keith 24, Meadows 25, Perez 25, Torkelson just turned 26, Dingler's a rookie at 27, Carpenter the old man who just turned 28. Their core is way beneath prime-time, which is when you tend to win championships.

"Nothing they would have done at trade deadline would have changed significantly their one-and-done playoff profile. And, very likely, it would have compromised their future, higher-arc years, which

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