Detroit Tigers general manager Al Avila received a multi-year contract extension on Friday. Here's what he said about it: Gregory Levinsky, Detroit Free Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As if the first half of the season wasn’t tumultuous enough, here came Ron Gardenhire and his wife, Carol, hustling through the terminal at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport while their Sunday night flight to Tulsa, Oklahoma, was taking off.
For all the injuries, inclement weather and continually scrapped pitching plans the Detroit Tigers dealt with in the first half while going 28-57, worst in the American League Central, perhaps Gardenhire’s biggest challenge came hours after the All-Star break started, in traveling to Oklahoma to see his grandchildren.