The Detroit Tigers used an "all hands on deck" strategy for their offense, and it worked out better than expected.

One piece of the Detroit Tigers return in their trade deadline sell-off has already made an impact on the Major League club.

Thus, just before the All-Star break, the Tigers decided to move Maeda to the bullpen indefinitely – although not necessarily ...

After Aug. 10, the Tigers were buried eight games under .500 and 10 games back in the wild-card race, with a 0.2% chance to make the playoffs, according to Fangraphs. Less than 50 days later ...

The Tigers were 56-63 and 9 1/2 games behind the third wild-card spot at the time. It appeared baseball's longest postseason drought (tied with the Los Angeles Angels) would get a little longer.