Oh, how the mighty have fallen. The only downside to staking yourself to a 15.5-game division lead, you ask? It gives you the chance to be the first team in baseball history to squander a 15.5-game division lead.

Despite their precipitous collapse, the Detroit Tigers clung onto a playoff berth by their fingernails, finishing with the same record as the Houston Astros and beating them out for the third Wild Card slot on account of a tiebreaker.

2025 record: 87-75 Manager: A.J. Hinch Top hitter by fWAR: Dillon Dingler (4.1) Top pitcher by fWAR: Tarik Skubal (6.6)

You can blame Detroit’s inability to finish the job in the AL Central to many factors, not least of which is the Cleveland Guardians’ astonishing late-season surge. As they prepare to face those same Guardians at Progressive Fiel

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