It’s been a hot minute since the American League Central has had a real three-team race for the division.
Define “competitive” however you want, but in seasons where a global pandemic didn’t ruin everything, it’s a struggle to find anything but either a blowout or a two-team race in the last five years, and it hasn’t happened all that often since the division formed as it is in 1998.
To find the last time the top three teams in the Central have finished within double-digit wins of each other (and also played more than 60 games) you would have to go all the way back to the long-long before time of 2014.