After a historic season in 2007, the Tigers may be looking to lock up Curtis Granderson to a long term deal despite the fact that he’s not even eligible for arbitration yet. This is one of those big win/potentially big loss kind of deals because while Granderson had the monster year last year, there’s not a long track record of success. Still, it looks like the team hopes to sign him to a deal that would take him through all of his arbitration eligible years and then his first year of free agency. I’ll hold judgement until it’s done and we see a number but I expect it to be a backloaded deal like a lot of these usually end up being.
| Team | W | L | GB |
| MIN | 87 | 76 | - |
| DET | 86 | 77 | 1.0 |
| CHI | 79 | 83 | 7.5 |
| KC | 65 | 97 | 21.5 |
| CLE | 65 | 97 | 21.5 |
