Ladies and gentlemen, your 2024 World Champion Detroit Tigers. Winners of only 83 games in the regular season, the Tigers are officially the team with the worst regular season record to be crowned champs. The 2006 Cardinals won 83 games as well, but they only lost 78 while these Tigers dropped 80. But the postseason version bore little resemblance to its regular season counterpart as they went 13-3 in the playoffs, culminating in a shocking 4-game sweep of 100-win Atlanta and proving once again that all that matters in the postseason is getting in.
While the Series was going on a farmhand of ours got some recognition:
Criswell was up for a couple of starts in September when Zach Wheeler was on the IL and was 0-2 with a 5.06 ERA but with a 3/13 BB/K ratio in 15 innings. He's a darkhorse candidate for the 5th starter's job next season.