Al Avila decided to rip the band aid off for any Detroit Tigers fans this week, expressing that the team will not spend serious money in the free agency market until at least 2021.
The “tank and rebuild/Trust the Process” model is basically the Keto diet of the sports world right now, and the Tigers are your annoying friend who won’t shut up about how intermittent fasting changed their life. What’s so comical is how little discretion is used by the Illitch family and Al Avila in this situation. Just blatantly telling fans that they aren’t going to be serious about competing for at least two more years.
The logic is that the draft picks and prospects they are stockpiling will have developed into competent MLB players by then, and albatross contracts like Jordan Zimmerman ($25 MM each of next two years) will be off the books, giving them the freedom to spend big in the market like the White Sox or Phillies of this year. Guess we’ll have to wait and see.
Projected 2019 lineup:
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Castellanos is being shopped for a trade as well. Woof. I decided to take this “tank and rebuild” approach at work this week. Sat in bed, drank beer and watched Storage Wars reruns. By Wednesday afternoon I got a call from my boss, wondering why I hadn’t made any sales calls during the course of the week. I let her know that 2019 wasn’t a good time to be competitive, and that I didn’t think I’d be serious about hitting my budget until 2021. I informed her that I needed to let my accounts develop on their own for a couple of years before getting serious about achieving noticeable results. I was let go immediately. Now I have no job and no baseball team worth watching.
Time to kick back, bust out the ol’ Brandon Inge jersey and illegally stream some awful Tigers baseball for the next few years. At least by the time they are good again, I might be employed.
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