Bob Wojnowski on the Detroit Tigers but if you want to insert Wings instead of Tigers and the hockey prospects instead of the baseball prospects.
Funny how both Ilitch owned teams are in the same boat.
The Tigers are selling a narrative and buying time, and most observers understand it and accept it — for now. But, for how long?
Rebuilds in pro sports are ugly, often unavoidable, seldom brief. Generally, fans will be patient, under one condition: They see promising pieces of the future.
This is where the pressure will rise on Tigers GM Al Avila, and this is when it’ll hit — in less than two years.