Pitcher Mike Fiers
Pitcher Mike Fiers
With the 4 p.m. Tuesday trade deadline approaching, it doesn't appear likely the lowly Tigers will be trading anyone, Lynn Henning of the Detroit News reports.
Some Tigers' names that have surfaced as possible trade material over the past couple months include Jose Iglesias, Shane Greene, Mike Fiers and Nick Castellanos.
But Henning writes:
The trade cutoff, as of Monday morning, was fewer than 30 hours away and the Tigers hadn’t yet made a deal. Nor was a single swap anticipated.
That’s how fluffy-soft is the 2018 mid-season market. A dinkier-than-normal group is looking for help and each and every one of them insists on paying wholesale. Little was expected to change, at least for the Tigers, by Tuesday’s 4 p.m. close, which, as everyone is quick to qualify, applies to non-waiver deals.
In other words, if you can push players through waivers in August, or allow a team to claim a waiver-available player and then work out a deal, you can still make swaps, as the Tigers confirmed last summer when they dealt their two prized Justins – Verlander and Upton – in August’s waning hours.
