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Detroit Tigers say they're 'building it back up.' But the evidence suggests otherwise

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On the 20-year anniversary of Tiger Stadium's final game, we reflect on our favorite Detroit Tigers memories from The Corner. Detroit Free Press, Detroit Free Press

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — If Al Avila was coached up on what to say before his first media session of this year’s winter meetings, it would have been too obvious.

In front of an unusually sparse crowd inside the Detroit Tigers’ eighth-floor suite at the Manchester Grand Hyatt resort on Monday evening, the buzz-phrase emerged: “Build it back up.”

As in, “Our mindset is to move forward and build back up.