Wait a minute. What do you mean the Detroit Tigers didn’t win the AL Central? Many baseball fans had that locked in for the longest time, only for Detroit to collapse down the stretch and allow the Guardians to take over and win the Central in back-to-back seasons. This division didn’t have a repeat winner since Cleveland won it three-straight times between 2016 and 2018.

In a rare season with no American League team achieving 95 wins or better, Cleveland didn’t need that great of an overall campaign to take the Central’s top spot with an 88-74 record while overcoming a record 15.5-game deficit, even trailing the Tigers by 10 games as recently as early September. It’s probably a good thing that they only needed 88 wins on the whole, seeing as though this team had to deal with more than it

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