When Al Avila succeeded Dave Dombrowski as Tigers general manager, he said he believed that the assistants he wanted to stick around would stay. On Friday, he made his moves to do so, promoting David Chadd to assistant GM among a handful of front-office promotions.
John Westhoff, previously vice president and baseball legal counsel, added assistant GM to his titles along with general counsel. Scott Bream was promoted from director of pro scouting to vice president of player personnel. Sam Menzin is the new baseball operations director.
Al Kaline, Willie Horton, Jim Leyland and Trammell are all being retained as special assistants.