The Detroit Tigers have gone cold at a deeply perilous time. 6 seed Wild Card series. 3 seed, they'd have to get through that very same Wild Card series before playing either Houston or Seattle in the ALDS. (Don’t rule out the New York Yankees as a potential Wild Card matchup, either, by the way.) All in all, the Tigers absolutely must avoid the Wild Card altogether, something that seemed like a foregone conclusion until recently.