FOX Sports: Perry: Tigers will score, but does it matter?

Dayn’s latest…

Baseball’s season is (blessedly) a long one, and anything can happen to any team over a span of, say, 10 or 12 games. Yes, the Tigers got off to a miserable start, but over the span of those seven consecutive losses the offense managed just 2.1 runs per game.

That’s plainly aberrant.

This is an offense capable of scoring 900 or more runs this season, and the struggles they were enduring in the early days of the season have no lasting meaning. They’ll hit. In fact, they are hitting, having touched home 37 times in their last three games.

...The Tigers, especially now that Granderson is back, are going to score lots of runs. On the other hand, they’re going to give up quite a few runs.

They’ll be a winning team, and they’ll be in the race in the Central. However, contrary to pre-season speculation, Detroit is not on the level of, say, the Red Sox and Diamondbacks. That is, they’re contenders, but they’re not among the power teams in baseball right now. For them to rise to that level, a few pitchers will need to step up and defy expectations.