Up until approximately 2 a.m. Saturday morning, it was pretty tough to be upset with the Detroit Tigers’ 2021-22 offseason.
Sure, there was that pesky 99-day lockout, when we all wondered if we’d actually get Major League Baseball — the uncut stuff, not the watered-down 19-year-olds wandering around TigerTown — at all this year. But the threat of the lockout in November gave us a frenetic trade and free agent market featuring the Tigers ponying up nearly $225 million in salary commitments and actual multiple-year contracts! You wanted a frontline starter? Done! A star shortstop? Done!