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ANAHEIM, Calif. — As the 24-hour countdown before the trade deadline approaches, the Detroit Tigers appear to be waiting along with the rest of baseball for the dam to break, if it will at all.
The Tigers front office, led by general manager Al Avila, is back in Detroit monitoring the action leading up to Wednesday’s 4 p.m. deadline.
The team is but one factor – and not an influential one at that – in the flurry of moves that is expected to be made in the very near future, with perhaps the most attractive starting pitcher on the market (left-hander Matthew Boyd), a solid back-end reliever (closer Shane Greene) and a rental player with little trade value (right fielder Nick Castellanos).