The Detroit Tigers are historically bad.
At least, they have been over the past 13 games entering Sunday’s series finale against the Toronto Blue Jays at Comerica Park.
They are 1-12 from July 9-26, free-falling from the best record in MLB to eighth-best in a span of just more than two weeks. Their best-in-baseball division lead has been chopped in half to seven games. Nothing is working.
But it is worse than that.
The Tigers (60-46) are the only MLB team in the modern era to have a 13-game span where they were …
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Not to mention, Riley Greene, the Tigers’ best hitter at 24 years old, is on pace for a single-season team-record 215 strikeouts. That would smash Cecil Fielder’s 182 strikeouts in 1990.
So yes. Maybe it really is THAT bad.
The good news: The Tigers play the trade-deadline selling Arizona Diamondbacks (51-54) on Monday-Wednesday at Comerica Park.
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The bad news: The Tigers have lost seven straight games at home.
The MLB trade deadline is Thursday at 6 p.m. Tigers president of baseball operations Scott Harris, you’re on the clock.
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Reporting by Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press / Detroit Free Press
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