The Detroit Tigers are going to miss the playoffs for the fourth season in a row. While they just nearly missed out in 2016 after an offseason spending spree, most clubs would consider four years without October baseball a full-blown rebuild. Yet, many Tigers fans recognize this as the true Year 1 of the build, as they were trying to compete as recently as last season.
Over at The Athletic, Jordan Horrobin takes an in depth look at the 2017 season: the year that marked the beginning of the Tigers rebuild. He looked at the perspective of the players who were traded, like Ian Kinsler and J.