With the Detroit Tigers season all but over, it’s time to turn our attention to the offseason. The Tigers have a lengthy list of things they can do this offseason to help the team both in the short-term and in the long-term.
Two checklist items include clearing out Detroit’s hefty logjam of outfielders, and acquiring a first baseman. As a fellow FanSided writer at Sodo Mojo pointed out, Detroit could kill two birds with one stone by making a trade with the Seattle Mariners.
Detroit sends outfielder Mikie Mahtook to Seattle for first baseman Daniel Vogelbach
The Tigers will go into the offseason with eight big league ready outfielders in JaCoby Jones, Mikie Mahtook, Nicholas Castellanos, Christin Stewart, Dustin Peterson, Mike Gerber, Jim Adduci and Victor Reyes.