00:00last year in the central division here in the american league last year's best team in that
00:04division was 88 wins by the guardians which was like what the heck happened to the detroit tigers
00:08it should have easily been into the mid-90s but a late season collapse and then they had the royals
00:13at 82 wins and then the twins at 70 wins and the white socks down there 60 and 102 far
00:18from that if
00:19we look at this year coming into the season tom how about this the tigers 85 and a half wins
00:23the
00:24royals 82 and a half the guardians 78 and a half twins 72 and a half and the white socks
00:2867 and a
00:29half let's start with the tigers up top at 85 and a half is this one of those teams that
00:33has enough
00:34to get to the 90s tom or is it one of those where do they even need to press the
00:38needle down the final
00:39two weeks should they run away with this division and coast to the finish line 85 and a half i
00:43gotta
00:43tell you tom it feels cheap but there's a reason why that number is there it does feel a little
00:49bit
00:49cheap uh you know i spoke about this win total a couple weeks ago uh with craig mish on news
00:55line
00:55on newswire excuse me uh about uh you know 85 and a half and this was before the signing of
01:03valdez
01:03or right after it happened uh i believe in the tigers i think it's a good number i think the
01:07division that they play in is extremely easy uh i think the royals are gonna be better i think the
01:12guardians can be worse i think the white socks are absolutely terrible the twins are absolutely
01:16terrible i think there's a very clear path forward to the tigers being a 90 plus win team this is
01:21where
01:21they should have been last year if had they not collapsed at the end of the season which again
01:25i'm going to chalk up to variance the tigers collapsing and the guardians storing back both
01:30of those things are not going to happen again and the tigers very easily could have been at that
01:34upper 80s low 90s type of level if it wasn't for some wackiness last year
01:38you
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