DETROIT -- The better Mike Fiers pitches for the Tigers, the more likely it is that he'll become a former Tiger. As Justin Verlander can attest, that's how the non-waiver Trade Deadline works.
"I have to start pitching bad? Is that what you're trying to say?" Fiers teased after shutting down the Red Sox's offense for 6 1/3 innings in Detroit's 5-0 win Saturday night at Comerica Park.
Fiers knows the process. He has been through it already, traded to the Astros at the Deadline three years ago in a deal that brought Carlos Gomez to Houston and sent four eventual big leaguers to Milwaukee.