Bob Wojnowski, Lynn Henning and Chris McCosky wrap up the season for the 2018 Detroit Tigers. The Detroit News, The Detroit News
Detroit – Let’s call it what it is, OK. It’s an organization-wide epidemic. (It’s a baseball-wide epidemic, as well, but let’s keep the focus local for now.)
The strikeout. It’s the most useless result a hitter can achieve, and the Tigers continue to amass record amounts of those useless results annually.
Tigers hitters struck out 1,341 times – a rate of 22.2 percent. They averaged 8.