As the offseason heads towards the MLB Winter Meetings, teams are beginning to make some moves to ready themselves for the December swap meet as well as the Rule 5 draft. Coming off a season that, hopefully, was the nadir of the rebuilding process, the Detroit Tigers have made some personnel changes in an effort to move the team forward towards a competitive future.
Staff moves signal lean towards analytics
The big news out of Detroit is the series of hires and promotions the team has made in the baseball operations department. Now in the supposed third year of the rebuild, the club has brought in some fresh talent, as well as reorganized some of its internal staff.