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http://www.freep.com/story/sports/2015/02/17/detroit-tigers-justin-verlander/23562397/
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/12334819/mlb-best-worst-active-offseason
Actually a misleading title. Of the 6 AL teams listed as most unimproved, 4 made the playoffs last year. And it took only 4 votes out of a possible 29 or 30 to get on the list. DET had 7 votes. So 7 MLB Executives voted for DET.
The Oakland reboot was so confusing the A's got multiple votes in both the most-improved and most-unimproved portions of the poll. The Orioles got a bunch of these votes and are still seen as a team that could win the AL East if Manny Machado and Matt Wieters are pictures of health. The Tigers are on this list even though nobody would be shocked if they won the World Series -- yeah, without Max Scherzer. Given that 10 of the 15 teams in the league got at least one vote, we get the impression nobody has any division in the AL figured out yet.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/12334819/mlb-best-worst-active-offseason
Actually a misleading title. Of the 6 AL teams listed as most unimproved, 4 made the playoffs last year. And it took only 4 votes out of a possible 29 or 30 to get on the list. DET had 7 votes. So 7 MLB Executives voted for DET.
The Oakland reboot was so confusing the A's got multiple votes in both the most-improved and most-unimproved portions of the poll. The Orioles got a bunch of these votes and are still seen as a team that could win the AL East if Manny Machado and Matt Wieters are pictures of health. The Tigers are on this list even though nobody would be shocked if they won the World Series -- yeah, without Max Scherzer. Given that 10 of the 15 teams in the league got at least one vote, we get the impression nobody has any division in the AL figured out yet.
