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Detroit Tigers: Favorite Playoff Team Bracket Challenge

By Roger Castillo

DETROIT, MI - OCTOBER 28: The Spirit of Detroit statue in downtown Detroit is dressed in a Detroit Tigers jersey after Game Four of the World Series against the San Francisco Giants at Comerica Park on October 28, 2012 in Detroit, Michigan. The Giants defeated the Tigers 4-3 in 10 innings to win the World Series 4 games to 0. (Photo by Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images)
DETROIT, MI - OCTOBER 28: The Spirit of Detroit statue in downtown Detroit is dressed in a Detroit Tigers jersey after Game Four of the World Series against the San Francisco Giants at Comerica Park on October 28, 2012 in Detroit, Michigan. The Giants defeated the Tigers 4-3 in 10 innings to win the World Series 4 games to 0. (Photo by Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images) /
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For fans of college basketball and the University of Michigan, you are pretty stoked for March Madness. So it got us thinking of how we could get involved with the Detroit Tigers. After talking it over in the MCB Slack, Sebastian, our co-contributor historian, came up with a great idea.

We would like to present the 16-team favorite Detroit Tigers playoff team bracket challenge. This challenge will start this afternoon and run until the end of March. There will be four regions: Greenberg, Trammell, Cobb, and Kaline.

Thanks to the expanded playoffs, this allowed for the perfect amount of teams to be used. There are some really good teams that come to mind that I was thinking about but because they did not make the post-season, they did not qualify. The first one:

1988 Detroit Tigers

Detroit was looking to repeat as AL East champs and took over first place on June 20. However, they were never able to pull away as they finished 36-41 in the second half of the season. After being elected the starting shortstop for the 1988 All-Star game, Alan Trammell was out with a bruised left elbow. He would miss time again due to a groin pull to start September and then to top it off, missed the final nine games of the season after he was hit in the right forearm by Blue Jays pitcher David Steib in mid-September.

Despite all of the injuries, Trammell finished with an impressive slash line of .311/.373/.464 and an OPS of .836. A few more games of Trammell in the lineup could have made a difference.

1961 Detroit Tigers

They won 101 games but the Yankees won 109 with one of the best teams ever assembled. Detroit would go 8-10 against New York. This was the era in which all the teams were all in one division and the winner would go to the World Series.  The Tigers had some great seasons from Norm Cash (9.2 WAR), Al Kaline, (8.4 WAR), Rocky Colvato (7.6 WAR), and outstanding pitching from Frank Lary and Hall of Famer Jim Bunning.

Let’s go over the matchups with the first bracket up and that is the Greenberg region. The seeding was based on the regular-season winning percentage.

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