Detroit — It’s almost incomprehensible how awful the Tigers have been, in so many areas, in so many ways. Equally incomprehensible: There’s no clear way to fix it.
A season billed as the end of the rebuild has turned into utter, historic misery, unlike anything we’ve ever seen. The offense is threatening franchise and MLB records for ineptitude. Four-fifths of the starting rotation has been injured or absent. Experienced players with decent tracks record are inexplicably crafting new abysmal track records.
If the Tigers continue at this pace — 37-55 at the All-Star break — they’d finish 65-97, and a nasty truth would emerge.