Rather than getting stoked for October’s playoffs, which in olden baseball days (2006-14) was a Tigers habit, Detroit again is left to get its postseason thrills and chills from an MLB Draft countdown.
It’s not exactly seeing Magglio hoist one into the heavens to earn the Tigers a World Series ticket, but these days Detroit’s baseball cosmos will take all the entertainment it can get.
The Tigers will pick third overall in 2021’s sweepstakes. Granted, that’s silly. As silly as a 60-game (58 if you were the Tigers) season determining draft order. As silly as seven-inning games in 2020 counting as much as nine-inning contests.