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002 - The Good and Bad of Baseball Season 052226

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🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The Good and Bad of Baseball Season 

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050 WTKA online at the big 1050.com.

0:04.4

So we'll transition from basketball.

0:06.7

We'll get back to basketball later on in the show.

0:08.1

But let's transition a little bit out of basketball for a moment to baseball.

0:11.9

And we'll do the bad than the good.

0:15.0

The bad.

0:16.6

Tigers' question of the day yesterday came from a buddy of mine is a two-nothing deficit in the third inning too much to overcome. And the answer is yes. Casey Meis actually was pretty good yesterday. Six and two third four hits to earn runs. No walks four strikeouts. The Tigers lost three one because the tigers cannot score runs. Tigers have lost 14 of the last 16 games. The Tigers have scored 10 runs in their last six games.

0:38.7

10 runs in their last six games.

0:41.3

It was nine in five.

0:44.3

It's 10 and six.

0:45.6

Like you can't average two runs a game.

0:48.1

That's tough.

0:49.0

So the free had a tweet yesterday.

0:52.8

The free press had a tweet yesterday. The Freep said,

0:54.9

only six AL teams have worse odds to make playoffs than Detroit Tigers.

0:58.8

My alternate take on the tweet was,

1:01.1

there are actually six AL teams that have worse odds to make the playoffs than the Detroit Tigers?

1:05.7

Like, that's how I wonder.

1:07.2

Chicago White Sox is out there?

1:08.6

No, the White Sox are about 500 right now.

1:10.6

Oh, wow. Okay. Apparently, I need to tap in. Yeah, but they actually do have worse odds. According to, according to Fangraphs, the Tigers have a 28% chance of making the playoffs. I can't believe that's actually that high. Ouch. Yeah. Below that, you have the twins at 24.4%.

1:28.7

And the thing is the White Sox actually have a better record, but their odds are worse, which is funny.

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