After their season ended in heartbreak with a Game 5 loss to the Seattle Mariners in the ALDS, the Detroit Tigers were left to pick up the pieces and determine where exactly things went south for this team after such a promising start to the year.
Almost immediately, critics pointed to the July trade deadline, when president of baseball operations Scott Harris took a conservative approach that came back to haunt him in more ways than one. The Tigers added six Major Leaguers at the deadline: starting pitchers Charlie Morton and Chris Paddack and relievers Kyle Finnegan, Rafael Montero, Paul Sewald and Codi Heuer.