The issue here is that Detroit is a small market team with a huge payroll. They had the 4th highest payroll in baseball at $172 million! Right behind the Dodgers, Yankees and Red Sox. Compare their payroll with the Twins, Royals, White Sox and Indians who were all 80-100 million less.
Their payroll is not sustainable and the front office knows that. Illich spent a lot of money trying to win a WS but you can only do that for so long.
no team cares about their fan base over saving money on salaries. with all the tv money walkup gate sales are meaningless. the team ownership knows they can replace fans easier than overpaying aging players. those guys will be headed elsewhere tiger fans. maybe it isn't right but it is reality. happens in pro football all the time and no one seems to care.
watching the brewers rebuild the last couple of years. Fans didn't like losing players such as Lucroy, granite they are as big of names, but there's a lot more excitement now over the future than there was the last few years watching fan favorite players lose
with further research i found out what miggy and verlanders are due on those contracts. no sane gm is going to take on those behemoths unless detroit eats half. and still detroit will be lucky to get a bag of balls back in trade like the famous red sox dumpoff of gonzalez, crawford and beckett for james loney. detroit in a real bad spot here. interesting to see how the get out of it.
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