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- Updated: July 29, 2016
DETROIT — While Tigers officials and special assistants continued their meetings at Comerica Park leading up to Monday’s 4 p.m. ET non-waiver Trade Deadline, manager Brad Ausmus confirmed what has already been widely reported: Pitching is expensive, and sweeping the Red Sox in Boston this week doesn’t make it any cheaper.
“I think [general manager] Al [Avila] is looking at all the pieces,” Ausmus said Friday afternoon. “It’s just the asking price is the bigger concern. Certainly having the road trip we had doesn’t hurt, but I don’t think it changes the philosophy. If we can get better within reason, we’ll try to get better. But I think right now asking prices, because there are so many teams asking for the same thing, are extremely high.”
With that in mind, the Tigers’ focus is still leaning toward counting on internal upgrades with players getting …
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