Cash-strapped Tigers could target these free agents

Detroit — The Tigers, cash-strapped as they’ve been since the early 2000s, sure picked the right offseason to essentially sit out the free-agent sweepstakes.

This wasn’t a great free-agent class, by any means.

And Detroit only dipped a couple toes in the pool, signing only the general manager’s son, catcher Alex Avila, to a one-year, $2-million contract.

Every other free-agent player signed this offseason by the Tigers has been to a minor-league contract, including two this week, veteran outfielder David Lough and lefty reliever Mike Zagurski. Other notable minor-league signings include infielders Omar Infante and Brendan Ryan, reliever Edward Mujica and outfielder Alex Presley.

The Tigers, not…