Detroit Tigers: Winners and losers from the 2017 season

Detroit Tigers fans endured a rough 2017 season. With the offseason close to kicking off in earnest, here’s a look back at the team’s winners and losers from the past year.

Detroit Tigers players didn’t have the best season this year.

What started out with so much hope given Detroit’s veteran performers, eventually crashed and burned down the stretch.

It was a perfect storm of inconsistencies, injuries as well as the inability to win games.

J.D. Martinez missed significant time early, Francisco Rodriguez imploded, Anibal Sanchez and Jordan Zimmermann struggled to find consistency, Miguel Cabrera and Victor Martinez were hampered by injuries, Matthew Boyd and Daniel Norris regressed somewhat, Ian Kinsler struggled at times at the dish, and the list goes on.

By the end of the season, the Tigers were sending out an extremely inexperienced rotation backed up by a largely untested bullpen and a struggling offense.

While there were negatives aplenty to be had following a down year in which the team finished with the worst record in Major League Baseball, there were also definite positives to be had as the franchise looks to the future.

Here is a look at the Detroit Tigers winners and losers from the 2017 season.