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EDIT: Nope, Iglesias and McCann left at the same time. I should have looked it up before commenting. For some reason I thought they got rid of Iglesias a lot sooner. Is this what it feels like to get old?

If I remember correctly, he clashed with James McCann and the Tigers decided one of them had to go and they decided to keep McCann.

Thanks! I've been doing them since 2008 on the old MLB.com Detroit Tigers forum. I've thought about stopping them, but they are fun to do. Especially when other people chime in with their own predictions.

I think we should send them through Squid Game competitions and only the survivors are in.

Not much. What's a Haiku with you?

Every year I make predictions and then review them at the end. There’s no evidence of my predictions this year, so you will have to take my word that these were them. Miguel Cabrera 2021 Prediction – 467 AB | .268/.338/.394 | 14 HR | 67 RBI | 0 SB | 49 BB | 112 K 2021 Actual – 472 AB | .256/.316/.386 | 15 HR | 75 RBI | 0 SB | 40 BB | 118 K My most accurate prediction. It’s all downhill from here. Jonathan Schoop 2021 Prediction – 425 AB | .240/.281/.409 | 19 HR | 61 RBI | 1 SB | 20 BB | 109 K 2021 Actual – 623 AB | .278/.320/.435 | 22 HR | 84 RBI | 2 SB | 37 BB | 133 K A lot more playing time and a lot more productive than I had thought. Glad he’s here for another 2 years. Spencer Turnbull 2021 Prediction – 157 2/3 IP | 9-8 W/L | 4.11 ERA | 1.395 WHIP | 159 K | 71 BB 2021 Actual – 50 IP | 4-2 W/L | 2.88 ERA | 0.980 WHIP | 44 K | 12 BB Who predicted the no-hitter this year? Too bad he needed Tommy John surgery. Jeimer Candelario 2021 Prediction – 479 AB | .244/.328/.424 | 17 HR | 64 RBI | 3 SB | 56 BB |134 K 2021 Actual – 557 AB | .271/.351/.443 | 16 HR | 67 RBI | 0 SB | 65 BB | 135 K Huh, he led the league in doubles. Matt Boyd 2021 Prediction – 171 IP | 7-12 W/L | 5.11 ERA | 1.374 WHIP | 158 K | 59 BB 2021 Actual – 78 2/3 IP | 3-8 W/L | 3.89 ERA | 1.271 WHIP | 67 K | 23 BB Believe it or not, this is the first time Boyd’s ERA has been under 4.00. Robbie Grossman 2021 Prediction – 474 AB | .247/.342/.439 | 17 HR | 56 RBI | 15 SB | 66 BB | 110 K 2021 Actual – 557 AB | .239/.357/.415 | 23 HR | 67 RBI | 20 SB | 98 BB | 155 K Grossman led the team in HR. One of 10 players to have a 20/20 season last year. Tarik Skubal 2021 Prediction – 125 1/3 IP | 7-5 W/L | 4.02 ERA | 1.205 WHIP | 146 K | 36 BB 2021 Actual – 149 1/3 IP | 8-12 W/L | 4.34 ERA | 1.259 WHIP | 164 K | 47 BB Believe it or not, after 24 games (22 starts), Skubal had a 4.02 ERA in 123 innings. Willi Castro 2021 Prediction – 508 AB | .272/.315/.423 | 15 HR | 73 RBI | 4 SB | 30 BB | 140 K 2021 Actual – 413 AB | .220/.273/.351 | 9 HR | 38 RBI | 9 SB | 23 BB | 109 K Fun fact: whenever I’m overly optimistic about someone, they never have a good year. Wilson Ramos 2021 Prediction – 344 AB | .241/.293/.369 | 9 HR | 38 RBI | 0 SB | 23 BB | 79 K 2021 Actual – 151 AB | .205/.248/.397 | 8 HR | 20 RBI | 0 SB | 9 BB | 36 K Did anyone else forget that he played for the Tigers last year? JaCoby Jones 2021 Prediction – 383 AB | .225/.286/.415 | 13 HR | 32 RBI | 8 SB | 25 BB | 124 K 2021 Actual – 100 AB | .170/.210/.250 | 2 HR | 9 RBI | 2 SB | 5 BB | 42 K Did anyone else forget that he played for the Tigers last year? Jose Urena 2021 Prediction – 103 1/3 | 4-8 W/L | 5.49 ERA | 1.442 WHIP | 70 K | 41 BB 2021 Actual – 100.2 IP | 4-8 W/L | 5.81 ERA | 1.599 WHIP | 67 K | 42 BB It's not like it was hard to predict a bad year from Urena. Nomar Mazara 2021 Prediction – 482 AB | .255/.307/.417 | 17 HR | 69 RBI | 2 SB | 33 BB | 116 K 2021 Actual – 165 AB | .212/.276/.321 | 3 HR | 19 RBI | 0 SB | 15 BB | 45 K Oops. Julio Teheran 2021 Prediction – 173 1/3 IP | 8-10 W/L | 4.88 ERA | 1.385 WHIP | 135 K | 84 BB 2021 Actual – 5 IP | 1-0 W/L | 1.80 ERA | 1.400 WHIP | 3 K | 3 BB Injuries are always the hardest to predict. Thank God Mize and Peralta were as good as they were and Manning had flashes of success. That’s it. No predictions for Yabba Dabba Doo, Goodrum, Haase, Mize, Peralta, or Manning.

Who was the idiot that made these dumb predictions? Baddoo hits terribly and gets sent back to Minnesota per rule 5 draft rules. Cabrera gets injured while playing 1B and is sidelined for over 2 months. Isaac Paredes takes Cabrera's roster spot and hits surprisingly well. Greg Soto gets 30 saves. Matt Manning pitches more Major League innings than Casey Mize. The Tigers have a winning percentage of over .400 for the first time since 2016.