It doenst matter who the tigers faced really. From my perspective its simply there pitching. They have not bad hitting. But there pitching is going absolotly nuts. Way overacheiving, and theyll come back down to earth. Maroth is injured, Bonderman is so-so, Verlander has never pitched more then 130 innings, nate = nothing special, and rogers is a first half pitcher. Already stated in this topic.
But hey, if those 5 pitchers have years like they are having? Then yeah. they will be first or second easily in the division.