Sharp: Sanchez shows life, but won’t be enough to save rotation spot

Anthony Fenech and Drew Sharp dissect the big questions facing the Tigers as the trade deadline looms.A solid start Tuesday isn’t enough to erase the struggles during a season where he’s making almost $17 million

Buy PhotoEach successive Anibal Sanchez start resembles a funeral march. A somber, methodical cadence down a path toward the final resting place of his career as a starting pitcher for the Detroit Tigers.

Not exactly an environment conducive to rebuilding one’s shattered confidence.

But expectations were incredibly low as Sanchez took the mound Tuesday night amid great public uproar. The Tigers had lost his previous nine starts and — fair or not — there grew an increasing sense that…