It’s Monday, a new week, a new month, and things are looking very good for the Tigers as they took a series win from the Royals. Now they’re headed to visit another AL Central rival with the White Sox and are hoping to continue their winning ways in the Windy City. Chicago will follow them back to Detroit this weekend as well, with the Cubs visiting Comerica Park.
Today in our news bites, we’ll look at what has gotten the Tigers to this incredible season, and what specifically worked well this weekend against the Royals.
There’s also plenty more fun stuff in the general MLB news, so let’s get into it.
Detroit Tigers News:
The Tigers have baseball’s fifth youngest group of position players; the group buzzes with a relentless energy that has helped them rise from scrappy overachievers to the best team in the American League, with a 37-20 record and a six-game first-place stranglehold entering Friday. But for all this team’s youth, players are more likely to be studying film on an iPad or taping a bat grip than shouting punchlines or profanities across the room. Inside the clubhouse, the JBL Partybox 310 speaker that’s usually hauled out to the bullpen sits silent. Instead, ’90s country plays softly over the room’s speaker system, the relative quiet underscoring a palpable air of seriousness. Perhaps that’s a reflection of the team’s leadership. Maybe it’s a product of big-league pressures.
Or, just maybe, it’s a lesson from last season that has carried over: You don’t get the cathartic celebrations without mastering the daily grind.
Tigers since 2000 to have 14+ home runs in the team’s first 58 games of a season:
Spencer Torkelson, 2025 (14)
Victor Martinez, 2014 (14)
Miguel Cabrera, 2013 (17)
Miguel Cabrera, 2010 (18)
Gary Sheffield, 2007 (15)#RepDetroit pic.twitter.com/mXwWPOdPRl
— Tigers PR (@DetroitTigersPR) May 31, 2025
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MLB News:
I don’t think gloves are supposed to do this…