This will be different, this September in Detroit.
No playoffs for the Tigers means adjustments on all fronts. For fans who loved anticipating the delicious tension a short postseason series, on baseball’s national stage, promised. And for a team that needs to finish this mess of a year as cleanly as possible ahead of major renovations that will begin as quickly as a final out is notarized Oct. 4 at Chicago.
Among questions that will at least partly be answered during September:
Will call-ups from the farm be of any help or importance?
Not especially.