It doesn’t take a long look at this offseason’s MLB free agent list to realize that making major upgrades in the Detroit Tigers’ offense via free agents won’t be too easy. But they certainly need upgrades. Despite the flaws in the Tigers current positional group, they are young and it’s not unreasonable to hope for some gains as they move into their prime years, but they can’t depend on that alone in 2025.
With a starting payroll of around $83M entering the offseason, the Tigers have plenty of money available. That’s not so much the issue for them as the fact that the free agent class holds only a few impact bats that would really fit in Detroit, and more than likely they’d have to overpay quite a bit to land any of them.