Detroit Tigers Odds: Betting 2024 Season

Detroit Tigers 2024 MLB Season Rundown, Odds

The Detroit Tigers haven’t won the World Series since 1984 or made the playoffs since 2014. They aren’t winning this year’s Fall Classic but could return to the postseason with the right breaks and if ownership is willing to add at the trade deadline. Let’s break down the 2024 Tigers to consider in your MLB betting plans.

Detroit Tigers Odds to Win

Regular-season wins: O/U 80.5
To make playoffs: No -225, Yes +190
To win AL Central: +350
To win AL pennant: +2500
To win World Series: +6000

It is a new era in Detroit as the Tigers begin life without former AL MVP and Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera, who retired. He finished his career slashing .306/.382/.518 with 627 doubles, 17 triples, 511 home runs and 1,881 RBI in 2,797 games. Cabrera is one of three players in MLB history to finish his career with at least 3,000 hits, 500 homers and 600 doubles, joining Hank Aaron and Albert Pujols. Cabrera will be a first-ballot Hall of Famer.

The good news about the team’s 78-84 record last year was that Detroit played much better in the second half of the season to carry some momentum into 2024 and it was the club’s most victories since 2016, which is the last time the Tigers had a winning record. If they don’t at least contend for a playoff spot this year, Manager AJ Hinch surely will not be back in 2025.

The Tigers were dominant against American League Central teams in 2023, finishing the year 35-17 in divisional play. It marked the first time the Tigers have had a winning record against AL Central teams since 2016 and was the club’s second-best record. Detroit won the season series against all AL Central teams for the first time since 2011 and went 13-2-1 in its 16 series against divisional teams.

Detroit finished 2023 with a 41-40 road record overall, the club’s first season above .500 on the road since 2016 (41- 40). From July 1 to the end of season, Detroit posted a 24-15 record away from Comerica Park, which was the sixth-best road record in that span.

Last year at the Trade Deadline, the Tigers tried to trade one of their best pitchers in lefty Eduardo Rodriguez to the LA Dodgers, but E-Rod invoked his no-trade clause. Detroit wanted to get something for him knowing that Rodriguez would opt-out of his contract after 2023 and hit free agency. He did and signed with Arizona.

But the Tigers still have one of the AL’s better lefties in Tarik Skubal, who already has been named the Opening Day starter – his first Opening Day outing. Skubal spent Opening Day with the Tigers last year as an observer, still rehabbing from left elbow flexor tendon surgery. He didn’t debut until July in the majors but finished with a flourish, allowing a lone run on nine hits over 23 innings with two walks and 36 strikeouts over his final four starts. He won American League Pitcher of the Month honors for September.

Detroit Tigers MLB Odds Baseball Betting Lines for the 2024 Regular Season

Lineup-wise, the team has two promising power guys in former No. 1 overall pick Spencer Torkelson and Jake Rogers. Torkelson had 31 homers, the most by a Tigers hitter since Cabrera (38) and Justin Upton (31) in 2016.