On Tuesday afternoon the Tigers dropped a bombshell, announcing that Dave Dombrowski will no longer be the Tigers' general manager. Assistant general manager Al Avila has taken over as team vice president and general manager.
The news came as a shock around the baseball world. Dombrowski's contract was to expire at the end of the 2015 season but there was little reason to believe that he wouldn't be back in 2016. The last contract extension that he signed was in 2011, but was penned in August. Because of the timing of his last contract, multiple Detroit writers speculated that he should be re-signed.