Baseball predictions are generally worthless, but it’s nice to at least see two things blowing up in the collective faces of every sportswriter with a Tigers man-crush out there. For one, after today’s drubbing by the Good Guys, the kittens are in a position where they’ll have to average 6.4 runs per game to meet that 1,000-run benchmark everyone just kind of assumed they’d hit. For another, the American League Central standings are in the total inverse order of what they should be:
- Chicago White Sox
- Kansas City Royal
- Minnesota Twins
- Cleveland Indians
- Detroit Tigers
Could things continue like this? Will Curtis Granderson be enough of an offensive catalyst to pick up a shaky-at-best Detroit bullpen? Can Sox pitching maintain this mostly-consistent showing of respectably average to elite-level pitching? Is the Sox bullpen for real? It’s only ten games in, but that’s still ten games where a six-run lead was enough after the seventh inning and ten games where the offense is batting .251 instead of .210.
Then again, this is the same point in time where Gavin Floyd has won as many games as the entire Tigers team, Juan Uribe is outperforming Miguel Cabrera and Justin Verlander can’t find the strike zone. Enjoy it while it lasts, but oh how sweet if it would last forever. [White Sox.com]