What happened to the Detroit Tigers?

Question

Thought this was the year. Great bats, decent pitching aside from the bullpen, and good team camaraderie. Leland took Detroit to the Series two years ago. What happened?

Answer 1

The Tigers basically fell apart, the pitching and the batting but they will do a lot better next year

Answer 2

They brought in overrated players with horrible attitudes. Yes, I mean Gary Sheffield. One of the biggest losers to ever play the game. There is no such thing as team camaraderie when Sheffield is in the clubhouse.

Answer 3

In my opinion, it's all about the pitching.

Our bullpen is ****, our starters are starting to lean that way too.

Look at Justin V. for example. I haven't watched the past few games, but what I have seen out of him this season is that he's just getting worse and worse. Don't get me wrong, I think V. is awesome, I even have his shirt.

The thing is our team falling apart, our players losing willpower.

Answer 4

They had great pitching two years ago and those pitchers were all performing above-average and now they have come back to earth. Dontrelle got hurt and didn't adjust at all. It's the pitching in my opinion.

Answer 5

simply the failed and did not live up to hype.

Answer 6

Dealing with the greatness of the MN Twins, that's a part of it also.

Answer 7

L O L  that's what everyone said! Because of their so-called "power offense" they were supposed to go the world series and win it all.The thing is they were looking at the INDIVIDUALS they got,not the team itself.EXAMPLE: they got Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis.Everyone was saying "Cabrera contributed to his team last year,and he can do the same this year".Cabrera is a great player,but them together didn't necessarily put up explosive offensive numbers.As for Dontrelle Willis,I mean I know him as the guy who pitched for the Marlins who hit quite a few homeruns for his team.Instead of him hitting the homeruns,other players were hitting homeruns off of him! They were saying "this is a great team" just because they got Willis and Cabrera.I mean I'm not going to say "The Giants are a great team" just because they have Omar Vizquel!!

Answer 8

injuries. polanco started off the year injured, sheffield had lingering injuries.

poor choices. jacque jones. that's enough said right there. and not using dontrelle much in the preseason also hurt as he didn't have any command.

pitching problems also really haven't helped, with zumaya and rodney gone for so long, and rodney coming back with control issues himself.

but look at them now. they're surging back and should finish above .500 this year

Answer 9

White Sox have an excellent record and the start of the season killed them.

Answer 10

They don't focus on areas that need attention. The same things happen over and over again. The bullpen has been failing them for many years. For many years they have a slide in the second half. In 2006 they led the Central by 10 games at the All Star Break. Minnesota was in 3rd and 12 games behind and made a strong run and won the division. The Tigers have had a poor record against teams in their division. I believe they have a losing record against everyone in the AL Central. I am certain that Cleveland will overtake third place. The Tigers do not learn from past mistakes. They do not improve the areas that need to be improved. They consistently hire players that have had their better times.  

Answer 11

Well the biggest reasons before the all-star break were their slow start because they struggled against their division so badly(4-16 no joke) and shut out about 8 times.  Now their offense is better and more consistent but their starting pitching started to do badly and their bullpen started to blow a bunch of saves and holds.  

Answer 12

Being a long time Detroit resident, i just think their heads got too big after the WS apperance. they thoguth they could cruise thru the central last year and this year, and they need to work or they will get nowhere