The words of warning from Tigers general manager Al Avila back in October was that changes were coming. On Monday came words of caution: Change is coming eventually, but it doesn’t have to be now.
“We would like to shed some of that payroll,” Avila said Monday from baseball’s Winter Meetings, “but quite frankly, if it’s not a deal that we feel is fair for the Detroit Tigers, that will help us, there’s no demand to dump the salary.”
Or as he said at another point during a lengthy session, “There has never been a mandate to dump salary.