Expectations? What expectations?

If the Detroit Tigers had a hard time handling all the questions about expectations, and living up (or down) to them in 2012, it's only going to get worse next season.

One day after the completion of the World Series — one in which the Tigers were swept, getting shut out in two games, and hit just .159 as a team — the Tigers were installed as early favorites to win it all in 2013.

It's not new. The Tigers keep bringing it on themselves.

"I think we set ourselves up a couple of times. We set ourselves up in the wintertime, when we signed Prince. We set ourselves up for expectations. When we swept the Yankees, we set ourselves up for more expectations," manager Jim Leyland said in the aftermath of the series sweep Sunday night. "A lot of people probably didn’t realize how good the Giants were. And so, that’s the way it turned out."

The betting service Bovada has the Tigers as 6-to-1 favorites to win the World Series in 2013, followed by the Yankees at 7-to-1. The champion San Francisco Giants are 10-to-1 to repeat.

The list of odds released by the service does not list odds to win individual divisions, but clearly does not have a lot of faith in the other American League Central teams to knock off the two-time defending AL Central champion Tigers. The White Sox have 28-to-1 odds to win the World Series, while the Twins have 66-to-1 odds, and both the Royals and Indians, with new manager Terry Francona, have 75-to-1 odds.

The complete list:

Detroit Tigers............................6/1
New York Yankees..................7/1
San Francisco Giants...............10/1
Texas Rangers.........................12/1
Washington Nationals.............12/1
Los Angeles Angels................12/1
Philadelphia Phillies................14/1
St. Louis Cardinals..................14/1
Cincinnati Reds.......................14/1
Atlanta Braves.........................14/1
Los Angeles Dodgers..............18/1
Tampa Bay Rays.....................20/1
Boston Red Sox.......................22/1
Arizona Diamondbacks...........25/1
Baltimore Orioles.....................25/1
Milwaukee Brewers.................25/1
Oakland Athletics....................25/1
Chicago White Sox..................28/1
Pittsburgh Pirates.....................30/1
Toronto Blue Jays....................35/1
Seattle Mariners.......................40/1
Miami Marlins..........................40/1
New York Mets.......................40/1
San Diego Padres.....................60/1
Minnesota Twins.....................66/1
Chicago Cubs..........................75/1
Cleveland Indians....................75/1
Colorado Rockies....................75/1
Kansas City Royals.................75/1
Houston Astros......................150/1