A year with swollen appendages (and other ailments): 2019 Detroit Tigers

ron gardenhire's league-leading seven ejections are a sign of how hungry this team is

(sorry, sometimes i can’t help myself)

"You have to keep up the good attitude, and we do that, and at the end of the day you end up looking at the ceiling at 3:00 in the morning every night." -- Ronald Clyde Gardenhire

Tigers have lost 33 of their last 40 games, something the 2003 Tigers did not do. Last MLB team to do so was the 2012 Astros. Only previous time Detroit had done it was 1996.

— Jason Beck (@beckjason) July 21, 2019

Welcome back, Transaction Jackson.

Edwin Jackson's 9 years, 321 days between wins for Tigers is the longest gap between wins in franchise history. Previous record was 6 years, 95 days by Wild Bill Donovan from 1912 to 1918, when he came out of retirement at age 41 after managing the Yankees. (h/t @EliasSports)

— Jason Beck (@beckjason) August 10, 2019

The Tigers position players have posted -1.9 fWAR this year. Do you know how hard that is to do? It's the only negative WAR total of the decade, and the worst mark overall by nearly four wins. And, uh, it's hard to see things getting much better down the stretch.

— Brendan Gawlowski (@GawlowskiB) August 13, 2019

The Houston Astros are poised to be one of the largest favorites in an MLB game ever when they send Justin Verlander to the mound against the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday night.

The Astros are listed as -500 home favorites at Caesars Sportsbook and as high as -550 at other sportsbooks. If the price holds, Houston will be the heaviest favorite in a game in at least the past 15 seasons, according to sports betting database BetLabsSports.com, and likely longer.

LOL OH YOU THOUGHT? pic.twitter.com/TUDpYghwcA

— Detroit Tigers (@tigers) August 22, 2019

i know it's a lost season and there are ~reasons~ not to bring up any of the kids, but continuing to run edwin jackson out there is pretty embarrassing

17 seasons in the bigs and a bWAR of 9.3

and dropping fast

EIGHT passed balls in 30 games, but

Jose Abreu was staring down at home plate and not expecting a throw to third to buzz by him at all. https://t.co/WbvZrOKLcg

— Jason Beck (@beckjason) September 22, 2019

tigers finish their home slate at 22-59, tying the 1939 st. louis browns for most home losses

swept in 10 of 25 home series

a remarkable -221 run differential at home

I consider myself a pretty decent baseball knower but the only players I could name from this team are Cabrera and BUCK FARMER

Bleak stuff, Jack:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/DET/2019.shtml

-3.3 bWAR out of the hitters is really something

Back-to-back strikeouts from Christin Stewart and Travis Demeritte close the Tigers season with a 5-3 loss. They also set a MLB record with 1595 strikeouts in a season, one more than last year's White Sox.

In any case, it's over. We all made it. Tigers finish season at 47-114. pic.twitter.com/x8TOS7GMX3

— Jason Beck (@beckjason) September 29, 2019