Today marked the close of the MLB 2025 regular season. In the American League Central, 2025 has been a tale of two cities: Detroit and Cleveland.

Consider Detroit the hare. The Tigers were the best team in baseball for much of the season. They set a franchise record for wins before May. They were the first team to X amount of wins many times over. Beyond their hot start, Detroit has played to the tune of an 87-74 record, playing winning baseball both at home (46-35) and on the road (41-39, entering today).

Cleveland, of course, is the tortoise. Their run differential sat 75 runs worse than Detroit’s entering today’s action. As recently as just over one month ago, they sat 12.5 games back of Detroit in the division (more than twice the distance Kansas City, who will miss the postseason, s

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