The first week of the season has gone as perfect as it can for the Detroit Tigers. Offense is clicking, the pitchers are on and the defense is much improved from last season. 4-0 to start the season scoring over 5 runs a game, its safe to say this team is absolutely on fire.

Starting first of all with David Price, on opening day going 8.2 innings. Giving up 5 hits and striking out five members of the Twins lineup, its safe to say David Price is focused this season. Its a contract year but I don’t think that tells the entire story. Its an elite pitcher on an elite roster who number one goal is to bring a championship to Detroit. Verlanders best years are behind him, if you wanna admit it or not, but if the future is in the hands of Price as the ace of this staff, based on game one, I do believe the Tigers are in good hands.

The early form of JD Martinez, with two home runs and four RBI s, this man is showing early on that last season was not a fluke. He is going to get pitches to hit. There are going to be days where Cabrera and V. Martinez are having a bad stretch and that’s where the depth of JD and Cespedes are going to be expected to hit and produce some runs for this season. Both who have looked outstanding early on. Going into week two and beyond, I am looking forward to seeing what kind of offense this mid to later portion of the lineup can produce

Now despite not getting much work and being baseballs version of the Philadelphia Flyers goaltender situation, the Tigers bullpen has done what they have needed to do in week one, which is throw effective pitchers and get batters out. With Joe Nathan on the 15 day DL, its time for guys like Soria and Chamberlain to show the coaching staff they can step up if needed in any type of closing compacity. The starting rotation is not going to go 7 plus innings every game, so we have yet to see just how reliable or non reliable this bullpen actually is. I think we will get an answer on this pretty early in the season.

A skill this team added to its arsenal last season was speed on the base pads. That has improved even more this season. The additions of Gose and Cespedes has added another element of creating offense that not a lot of teams can duplicate. 5 stolen bases as a team, if they can get the right lead on pitchers, this team is gonna be hard to throw out during steal attempts.

The defense of Yoenis Cespedes has been outstanding. Robbing the twins of a home run in opener and his solid arm, besides the bullpen, this is the biggest thing holding the team back for several years. They have always lacked on defense both infield and outfield but Yoenis will help that depth in outfield and with return from injury of Jose Iglesias, another much needed spark. This team has the pieces and skills it needs to win another division and hopefully a world championship.

Week one has been great. Lets hope they continue the week strong and carry the momentum into rest of season.