Detroit — Tigers general manager Al Avila, addressing the media face to face for the first time since the pandemic hit more than a year ago, said the urgency to flip productive players for prospects at the trade deadline is far less than it’s been in the last three or four years.
“Absolutely,” he said Friday. “We’ve already had some preliminary conversations with some general managers, even though it’s a little early…but we have a good thing going here. Teams are looking at some of our players for sure, because they’ve played good.
“But we’re not in a position right now, and I’ve told the other GMs this, where we have to make a trade.