That’s why Detroit is 7-2 in the post-season and why they are perceived to be huge favorites in the World Series. Everyone is assuming its defense against the Giants will be as good as it was in the last 9 games as opposed to how they played in the preceding 162 regular-season games. To be sure that can happen because, as I wrote in the very first summary of the Tigers when the playoffs began, if you’re going to bring a glaring weakness to the table, make sure it’s defense. As shown at the top of this piece, even over just nine games, the worst hitting team in the majors can’t turn themselves into the 1961 Yankees, and the worst pitching team won’t similarly transform themselves either. But the worst fielding team can.