This must have been fun for a certain general manager on the last weekend of July.
Al Avila of the Tigers was in Cooperstown for the Alan Trammell-Jack Morris shindig. The Tigers had a big house rented and that was good because everyone this side of Ty Cobb’s ghost was there.
In the meantime, Avila, who otherwise runs a big-league baseball team when he’s not serving drinks to Tigers alums, was supposed to stay tight with his iPhone as a trade deadline hovered over the Hall of Fame drama.
The trade cutoff, as of Monday morning, was fewer than 30 hours away and the Tigers hadn’t yet made a deal.