Lakeland, Florida – Four weeks into spring camp, and there are few surprises spilling from TigerTown.
Ron Gardenhire is the manager and man we knew him to be from his years with the Twins. He is straightforward, upbeat, good-humored, all-business with baseball, all-people with his players and with others. The Tigers hired the right guy.
His team is a different matter. It is challenged, to use everyone’s popular term for bad. There simply isn’t going to be enough pitching in 2018. The Tigers will score a few runs, although not as many as in 2017 (4.54 per game, 18th in MLB).