Detroit Tigers’ Unconventional Strategy Leaves Fans Wondering: What’s Their Secret to Success?
Through the first three years of his six-year, $140 million free-agent contract, Baez was – let’s not sugarcoat it – awful. He had a .221/.262/.347 slash line. His WAR in 2024 was minus-1.1 in 80 games. He was trending toward infamy as one of the worst free-agent signings not just in Tigers history, but in all of baseball.
Chances are, you saw how Detroit won Tuesday night’s game against Boston – on Baez’s walk-off three-run home run (let the celebration at home plate and in the Comerica Park stands begin). It was his second homer of the game, and his fourth, fifth and sixth RBIs of the contest. He now has four homers and 16 RBIs through nine games this month, which is better than any month of his entire Tigers’ tenure, save for September 2022.

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