Detroit Tigers' Surprising Surge in the Playoff Race

Uh, and Detroit is, is kind of played their way back into the conversation here. Have they not Craig? They're a very interesting story right now. We knew it was far from over, but I mean, they have literally hit their way. Despite their two best pitchers being traded at the deadline, they have hit their way into possibly a post season, which is kind of crazy to me. Yeah. Detroit is back in it. They had that nice run that put them there. I don't know that this is sustainable with the lack of pitching that they have, but, uh, you know, they inserted job into that rotation. He's a hard thrower, but I, you know, he's not going to be schoolable. I don't think anybody will be schoolable, but you know, naturally, you know, I was with Tom this weekend, we were doing the pro baseball today show, and it seems to me, Joe, that any team, if you throw that wildcard graphic up there again, if you don't mind any team that's on that, uh, American league playoff picture, that's below the Yankees and Red Sox again, below the Yankees and Red Sox. I think any team that wins five games in a row starting now has a really good shot to make the playoffs. Like it's as simple as that. Like, like that's it. Like you win five games in a row. All of a sudden you're in the driver's seat. The rest of the season, you could probably play 500 baseball from there on out and that's it. That's how crazy the season is. Texas. They don't want to win. Uh, Seattle finally got a win. They don't want to, they don't want to have any interest in winning. Cleveland's gone. The other side Detroit's only plus two 85 there because of the streak that they've been on Baltimore. They win, they lose, they win, they lose. Uh, you know, Toronto back in it a little bit and you know, how I feel about the twins, it's sort of ridiculous that they, they're still in this mix here, but yeah, I mean, if the twins Joe win five games in a row, starting now, their, their percentage on fan graphs is going to say like 70% to make the playoffs, but nobody wins five in a row amongst all those teams. And that is the problem, but they might win three in a row. Uh, and we'll figure out if any one of them are going to win tonight.