Detroit Tigers Trade Rumors: Team Still Says They Aren’t Selling
By Matt Snyder
Apparently last night’s debacle in Boston didn’t immediately kick the Detroit Tigers into sell mode. Joel Sherman of the New York Post posted the following message on Twitter earlier this morning.
#Tigers GM Dombrowski told me mindset is still trying to make playoffs not sell.
— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) July 27, 2015
This is the same sentiment that ESPN’s Jim Bowden reported last night before the Tigers and Red Sox took the field for Sunday Night Baseball.
The Detroit Tigers have played at a well below-.500 pace for the last three months of the season — and currently site two games below the .500 mark overall — but no team is running away with the Wild Card spots (the Twins are just 4-6 in their last 10 games as well) leaving the Tigers only four games out of a playoff position.
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Four games isn’t a massive deficit with still more than two months of baseball to play, but a big issue is that there are currently four teams between the Tigers and a playoff spot and another two teams within another game of contention.
So, in order to make the playoffs, the Tigers will have to catch a bit of a hot streak while also hoping that six other teams — the Twins, Blue Jays, Orioles, Rays, Rangers, and White Sox — don’t.
As I wrote last night, I don’t think the Tigers themselves yet know what they’re going to do. They’re going likely going to wait as long as they can before making a decision. And if you haven’t yet made a decision to sell, then of course you’re “still trying to make the playoffs”.
That’s what I think these reports mean. Not that the Tigers have firmly decided not to sell, but simply that they haven’t sold yet. Dombrowski’s quotes are more a statement of fact than an indication of their future organizational direction.
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