It was momentarily bright, then predictably gloomy. And as the Tigers staggered to the All-Star break, a few things became clearer.
This rebuild will be every bit as tedious as expected. There are no shortcuts. There are no guarantees. And there won’t be much help at the trade deadline.
Sorry if that’s what you’ve been hungering for, but in this market, with this roster, it’ll be more bust than boon. At least we’ve confirmed this about the Tigers: They have no untradeable players, and that includes Michael Fulmer and Nick Castellanos.
The unfortunate flip side for GM Al Avila is they don’t have many tradeable ones either, certainly not as many as they’d hoped.