Baseball: American League Central Key Team and Player

The post season underachieving Detroit Tigers are still the key team and favorite to win in the American League’s Central Division.

Detroit has won the division the past four seasons, but has failed to win the World Series.

After losing once in the World Series and twice in the ALCS, last year the Tigers were swept in three straight games by the Baltimore Orioles in the division series.

The key player and certainly one of baseball’s best hitters is the Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera.

Even he has been a disappointment in post season play. As a rookie, he helped the Florida Marlins greatly in their improbable run to the 2003 World Championship.

That is not the case with Cabrera in Detroit, as both the team and this tremendous individual performer have been post season disappointments.

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