The Tigers, much like their home city of Detroit, can be old school almost to a fault. The team’s front office is only just fully embracing analytics. Similarly, the Motor City herself has finally accepted the auto industry has changed.
This makes the Tigers franchise much like your dad’s old ’69 Dodge Charger that he still has from high school. Selling it or parting it out should have happened long ago, and yet he just kept trying to restore, upgrade, and repurpose it to death. Now we know why Detroit’s four World Series rings are spaced out ten, 23, and 18 years apart.