SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — The Detroit Tigers’ last World Series championship was in 1984.
That’s one of the longer championship droughts, and in recent years Tigers management has been trying to patch together a team that could win one more for owner Mike Ilitch.
They did have a decent, if brief, run from 2011-14, losing the ALCS twice but winning the A.L. pennant in 2012, when they lost the World Series to the Giants.
Ilitch died in February 2017, and the Tigers, who hung around as close to first place as five games out on July 19 (despite being seven games under .