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- Updated: December 8, 2016
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Tigers rolled into the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center for baseball’s Winter Meetings this week as one of the most intriguing teams to watch. Four days later, that intrigue remains.
The potential selloff that many clubs anticipated hasn’t happened. The surprise addition some might have hoped to see was never an option. The end result was plenty of talks but no action, and a club that has historically been among the most active Winter Meetings players sat dormant.
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“I can’t say it’s surprising,” general manager Al Avila said. “It’s just a matter of teams looking at their overall payroll and making their moves as they see fit.”
The Tigers remain an offseason enigma, their offseason direction developed little more clarity than before. The front office continued to engage in discussions about trades for their veteran players, but with the goal of receiving young talent in return, not simply to purge payroll. They’re also gauging what kind of return they could get by trading lefty reliever Justin Wilson or shortstop Jose Iglesias.
As Avila cautioned, they have plenty of time — not just this offseason, but during the season. They could wait on deals until the non-waiver Trade Deadline next July, then move more aggressively if they’re out of contention. They …
