DETROIT — It's grim for the Tigers, but it's not game over. Not yet.
The Tigers (61-66) have 35 games remaining on the schedule, starting Friday, Aug. 21, with the opener of a three-game road series against the Kansas City Royals.
The Tigers, coming off another crushing loss at the hands of a bullpen blowup, start play Friday five games back of the first-place Chicago White Sox in the American League Central. The Tigers are in fourth place in the division, just behind the Minnesota Twins and Cleveland Guardians. Detroit is 1.5 games back of the third and final wild-card spot in the AL, with several teams ahead of them to race down, and more teams behind them to fend off.
So, yes, grim — hence the long-shot odds they're facing to make the playoffs. According to FanGraphs, the Tigers odds of making the postseason for a third consecutive season are 14.8%. Their odds of winning the division are even longer, at 7.7%.
Those aren't the lowest odds they've faced this season. At May's end, when they were 22-38, they had just a 9.8% of making the playoffs and a 5.1% of winning the division.
#grim
The Tigers (61-66) have 35 games remaining on the schedule, starting Friday, Aug. 21, with the opener of a three-game road series against the Kansas City Royals.
The Tigers, coming off another crushing loss at the hands of a bullpen blowup, start play Friday five games back of the first-place Chicago White Sox in the American League Central. The Tigers are in fourth place in the division, just behind the Minnesota Twins and Cleveland Guardians. Detroit is 1.5 games back of the third and final wild-card spot in the AL, with several teams ahead of them to race down, and more teams behind them to fend off.
So, yes, grim — hence the long-shot odds they're facing to make the playoffs. According to FanGraphs, the Tigers odds of making the postseason for a third consecutive season are 14.8%. Their odds of winning the division are even longer, at 7.7%.
Those aren't the lowest odds they've faced this season. At May's end, when they were 22-38, they had just a 9.8% of making the playoffs and a 5.1% of winning the division.
#grim
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