It remains a bit of a mystery how they’re managing this—thanks Eric Haase—but your Detroit Tigers continue to play respectable baseball. Obviously the starting pitching has been the biggest contributing factor, and that is going to be tested with Spencer Turnbull out and Jose Ureña just returned from an injured list stint of his own. Fortunately, the Tigers rookies have been up to the task.
Just a month ago, we were wondering how Casey Mize was going to pull out of his tailspin. After a rapid ascent through the minors, the young right-hander was handled quite roughly in his 2020 debut, and that continued through much of spring training and the month of April.