Manager Andrew Graham led one of the more talented Whitecaps teams in recent memory to their first championship since 2007.
The Detroit Tigers are used to playoff baseball by now. After four consecutive AL Central Division titles and five playoff appearances in the past decade, it just isn't October without the Tigers. Unfortunately, the major league club didn't make it to the postseason this year, but someone in the organization did.
That would be the West Michigan Whitecaps, the Tigers' Single-A affiliate. West Michigan shook off a subpar 33-36 record in the first half, blazing to a 42-28 record in the second half and a postseason berth, where they knocked off the Fort Wayne TinCaps, Lansing Lugnuts, and Cedar Rapids Kernels for their sixth Midwest League title.