The Tigers may be the single most blah team of 2018. Nothing was particularly good or bad about these Tigers, but...everything was so inoffensively in the middle that it was hard to keep writing blog posts about them.
The two award-winning talents left on this team, Miguel Cabrera and Michael Fulmer, spent the year either injured or injured and disappointing (respectively). And that left us with some guys like Nick Castellanos and Jose Iglesias, who are used to bringing up the back half of the lineup, having to lead it. This was also a very Lost-ish situation where anyone who began playing well for this team, like Mike Fiers and Leonys Martin, was promptly traded.
Except for Shane Greene, who did a surprisingly bang-up job as closer this year, a year after the job was essentially thrown at him after the dissolution of Francisco Rodriguez' numbers, and the trade of Justin Wilson and his dissolving chin to Chicago. The guy got 31 saves, and this was from pitching for the Tigers, a team that didn't win too many games this year. True, things weren't, but he was a consistent closer for a team that was anything but consistent.
For 2019...the Tigers should think about consulting their farm system, recycling some unneeded contracts, and going for as much of a clean slate as humanly possible (and yes, the retirement of Victor Martinez does help this). If Miggy's healthy, Fulmer can pitch, and the team breathes life, we may be in business.
Coming Tomorrow- Since we're on a closing pitching tear right now, a reliever for a team that...BETTER...keep winning games this week. Especially this specific series. You know the one.
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