Despite their horrendous start and the comparisons to the ’62 Mets, the Tigers have a remarkably upbeat clubhouse.

There are two reasons for that:

1) Alan Trammell is the manager.

2) Luis Pujols is not the manager.

“We knew we weren’t going to win the division this year,” Dombrowski said. “We never imagined we’d get off to this kind of start, but here’s the question I keep asking: Would it be different if we were 8-21? Or 12-17?”