Ausmus doesn’t expect many moves for Tigers

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Brad Ausmus did not sound like a manager facing a rebuilding task as he took his spot in front of the cameras at the Winter Meetings on Tuesday. Instead, the Tigers skipper is planning for 2017 with the team he has now.

“I don’t think there’s going to be a ton of change,” he said from the media room at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center. “It’s so much easier to talk about trading people, and a lot [tougher] to actually trade them, especially when you’re talking about guys that have some sizable contracts. Some of them have no-trade clauses.

“Quite frankly, even talking about being more responsible fiscally, we don’t want to trade. We like them, especially some of the names mentioned earlier in the season. Miguel [Cabrera], Justin [Verlander], I don’t want those guys traded. Are you kidding me? That’s the last thing I want. I just think it’s easy to talk about and harder to do.”

Assuming no major moves are made, Ausmus will head into his fourth season as manager with most of his team intact from a club that was in a playoff race until the final day of the regular season in 2016. He would have Verlander, …

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