Gotta hand it to the Tigers for quickly rebuilding their rotation. They made 2 big trades last year when they were out of it, trading Price for Daniel Norris and Cespedes for Michael Fulmer. Both are young pitchers with great stuff and their command (both have 3-1 k/bb rates their first year as starters in the AL). In 38 combined starts they have 4 fWAR and sub-4.00 FIP.
I was hoping they'd age out of contention, but those deals really re-tooled their team, put them into contention this year, and set them up nicely for 2017
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