Detroit – No one knows if Al Avila and a new Tigers front office will win.
What we know is, for all the years he and his cohorts worked together under Dave Dombrowski, a different man with a plainly different approach is in charge.
We saw it again Thursday at Comerica Park, just as a new regime's style – and operational code – had been unveiled last month when, first, a slovenly Bruce Rondon was told to go home and think about his maturity challenges and, later, when Avila unexpectedly said Brad Ausmus was returning as manager in 2016.