DETROIT -- The Detroit Tigers left the Baseball Winter Meetings last week with only one new addition, a left-handed reliever who faces a long road to make the big-league roster.
Daniel Stumpf, selected from the Kansas City Royals in the Rule 5 Draft, will be vying with roughly a dozen other pitchers who have a credible shot at making the Tigers bullpen.
After quiet Winter Meetings, Tigers move on to next phase of offseason
As the Tigers packed up and headed back home, they had to wonder whether this was merely a quiet week or the start of an unexpectedly quiet offseason.