Seriously, how good is Doug Fister.
Best stretch drive pick-up by any team, and that includes Hunter Pence, who helped the Phillies a lot.
I'm rooting for the Tigers. Underdog and all, but also they're a storied original franchise, and not a vagabond, carpetbagger, Johnny-come-lately conglomeration that's just the bastard child offshoot of one of a series of failed attempts to make a franchise work in DC like the Rangers are.
Ty Cobb was a Tiger. Mickey Cochrane and Hank Greenberg were Tigers. HOF'er Al Kaline was finishing up his career when I was a young'un. Denny McLain and Mickey Lolich and Jack Morris are some of the twirlers who have shined for the Tigers.
And if the long running and vastly underrated DP duo of Alan Trammel and Lou Whitaker had played together in New York, every fan today would know their names. They manned the middle infield for nearly two decades and excelled both offensively and defensively.
So, GO TIGERS!