DETROIT -- The Tigers have typically gone to baseball's Winter Meetings with a specific shopping list of positions and areas to add. As general manager Al Avila and his assistants prepare to venture to the nation's capital for next week's gathering, the Tigers instead have a list of players that teams can pursue.
With a mission to pare down payroll and make their roster younger, the list of potential pieces is long.
"Last year, I said we would like to get two starting pitchers, we want to beef up our bullpen, we need to blah blah blah, the plan of action where these are our needs and we're going to go after them," Avila said at the start of the offseason.