As talk from the trade deadline finally fades into the background, the dog days of summer still provides plenty of topics to chat about. One would not think that the worst team in Major League Baseball — on pace to set the all-time record for futility, no less — would have anything interesting going on, but here we are.
Because of how putrid the product on the field has become, prospect talk still dominates the discussion, as well as rumblings and grumblings about the state of the Detroit Tigers’ front office. The opinions on the latter range from an absolute absence of faith from a member of the media to a former player who puts his trust in the decision-makers, with the fanbase split between the two.