ITS PAINFUL “Alan Trammell’s Final Farewell: Detroit Tigers Legend’s Passing Leaves Fans in Mourning”
The Detroit Tigers have not been playing good baseball. Not for a while.
After getting off to a good start in March and April, the Tigers are just 22-35 since May 1, posting an 11-16 record in May, going 10-17 in June and then losing two of three games against the Minnesota Twins to start July.
The frustrating part with this group is that there isn’t a red herring you can put your finger on.
Sometime it’s the offense, which ranks 21st with 4.1 runs per game as of July 4.
Then, out of nowhere, the Tigers will score 13 runs, like they did June 15 against the Houston Astros, or nine runs like they did just a few days ago against the Twins.
With Tarik Skubal, Jack Flaherty and Reese Olson in the rotation, you wouldn’t think starting pitching would be to blame, but as good as Olson has been at times, he has just a 2-8 record.
He hasn’t been able to ham-and-egg with the offense.
Kenta Maeda continues to struggle, as he did again Thursday, allowing nine runs in 3⅔ against the Twins.
Casey Mize is heading to the injured list (again).
The bullpen was lights out at the start of the season, but has seemingly worn down over the course of the year thus far, and has blown some key opportunities.
The defense feels like a major issues at times, but the Tigers are tied for 17th in team defensive runs saved, which doesn’t necessarily point to some major issue.
