Tigers may be good, but are the Royals better?

The good news: The Detroit Tigers have started the season 6-0 for the first time since 1985.

The bad news: They don't have a lead in the American League Central division race.

That's because the only other unbeaten MLB team right now is the Kansas City Royals, also 6-0 and coming off a surprising World Series run in which they came a couple runs from winning it all.

This could make for one exciting division race all summer, and that's without factoring in the Cleveland Indians, a dark-horse pick that, despite injuries to Yan Gomes and Michael Brantley, still has a lot of season to make a big run, and the Chicago White Sox, coming off a very active off-season. Remember, we're just 6 games into a 162-game season!

Either way, the Royals are making believers out of a lot of people, including Fox Sports analyst Jon Morosi, who says they should be considered the American League favorites -- not the Tigers.

"Kansas City ought to be regarded as the AL front-runner until proven otherwise," Morosi wrote. "How convenient, you say, that I've come to this conclusion now that the Royals (and Tigers) have started 6-0. I will admit to a certain recency bias. I was reminded of how good the Royals are — and how beautifully they play the game — while spending two days around the Royals for Saturday's FOX Sports 1 broadcast of their game against the Angels."

The Royals are coming off sweeps at home against the White Sox and on the road against the Angels. Like the Tigers (+31), their run differential is also impressive, scoring 40 runs and allowing just 15 (+25).

So how impressive is starting an MLB season 6-0? As CBS Sports reports, just 43 teams not counting the Tigers and Royals since 1914 have started a season 6-0. Nine of those teams, including the 1984 Tigers, went on to win the World Series, and 18 made the postseason (a 41.9% clip).

Let's go deeper into the numbers. According to FanGraphs, the Tigers now have a 66.4% chance of reaching the postseason. The Royals have a 63.2% chance. That's nearly a 20% boost from before the season!

With more than five months of regular-season baseball to go, one thing is certain: The days of an easy AL Central division are over. Even if the Indians and White Sox don't pan out, the Royals are here with the Tigers and it's going to be one, exciting summer of competitive baseball.

Speaking of which, Round 1 between these two teams is April 30, the beginning of a 4-game weekend series in Kansas City.

Contact Brian Manzullo: bmanzullo@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter at @BrianManzullo.