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Five concerns about Detroit Tigers' slow and painful rebuild

Free Press sports writer Anthony Fenech and columnist Jeff Seidel dissect Detroit Tigers improbable 6-3 win over Justin Verlander in Houston, July 15. Detroit Free Press

Let’s go back in time.

Back to Oct.18, 2016, when all of this started.

"We want to get younger,” Tigers general manager Al Avila said. “We want to get leaner. We want to run the organization without having to go over our means."

That moment, to me, marked the official start of the Tigers’ rebuild.

By my calculation, the Tigers are now 1 year, 8 months and 30 days into a rebuild.