The Detroit Tigers talked about it all offseason.
They kept talking about it all spring training.
And they're still talking about it.
"You can't win without throwing strikes," Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said Sunday morning. "You can't win if you continually swing at non-strikes. It's directly correlated to how successful you're going to be as a team. That is fact."
The Tigers' pitching staff through eight games ranks 19th in MLB with a 10.1% walk rate and 12th with 50.1% of pitches thrown inside the strike zone. The relief pitchers, despite their struggles at times, have carried the weight in the strike-throwing department, with a 51.