Detroit baseball fans have sat through nearly a decade of poor management from Tigers GM Al Avila. Finally, ownership pulled the plug. How many rebuilding years is too many rebuilding years? Avila wasted the final years of Miguel Cabrera’s career, mismanaged one of the more elite farm systems in baseball, failed to take advantage of…
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The Tigers fired general manager Al Avila on Wednesday, ending a seven-year tenure with no playoff appearances. Owner Chris Ilitch announced the move in the midst of another disappointing season. The Tigers entered play on Wednesday in last place in the AL Central with a 43-68 record and are on pace for a sixth consecutive losing season. Avila
If I were Detroit Tigers owner Christopher Ilitch … I would met with manager A.J. Hinch and ask him a series of questions: “Who do you think should be our next general manager? Have we under-utilized internal talent? Could the next general manager be Sam Menzin or somebody else in-house? What have we been doing
Detroit — Tigers manager AJ Hinch didn’t flinch. Did you get the support you needed from general manager Al Avila? “Al was great to me,” he said, speaking minutes after Tigers chairman and CEO Christopher Ilitch announced that Avila had been fired as the club’s general manager. “He was the first person who called me
Tigers owner Chris Ilitch addresses the media after firing GM Al Avila on Wednesday.
If it felt like the last bit of air was leaving the room last Tuesday as another trade deadline passed with quiet resignation from general manager Al Avila’s front office, your insight served you well. Two veteran players on their way out the door anyway were shipped off for minimal returns. The last major date
The Tigers have announced that they have parted ways with executive vice president and general manager Al Avila, effective immediately. Sam Menzin, vice president and assistant general manager, will continue as the day-to-day contact for the team, per the statement. The club’s chairman and CEO Christopher Ilitch says that he will oversee the search for
Detroit Tigers fans, rejoice. After seven long years, the team has announced they have fired general manager Al Avila. Assistant GM Sam Menzin will be the “day-today point of contact for the Major League team.”
Well the time has finally come. After seven years, Executive Vice-President of Baseball Operations and General Manager, Al Avila, has been fired by the Detroit Tigers. We had an inkling this was coming, but it’s still surprising to see that Team President Chris Ilitch has decided to make the move. The Tigers announced the move
DETROIT — The Tigers on Wednesday parted ways with vice president/general manager Al Avila, who led the team through a difficult rebuild but paid the price for a disappointing 2022 season. Sam Menzin, vice president and assistant GM, will continue as the day-to-day point of the contact for the baseball operations department, the club announced.
The SeaWolves, down to their final out, scored three two-out runs in the ninth inning for a 5-3 comeback win over the New Hampshire Fisher Cats on Wednesday afternoon. The SeaWolves took the lead in the top of the first inning against Fisher Cats starter Adam Kloffenstein when Daniel Cabrera, The SeaWolves, down to their
The Detroit Tigers’ 2019 draft class may ultimately be remembered as the best of Al Avila’s tenure as general manager. Sure, much of that has to do with Riley Greene, but the Tigers’ amateur scouting department also landed several outstanding late-round picks in this draft as well. On Wednesday night in Detroit, the latest product
Shortly after the conclusion of their 5-2 loss to Cleveland on Monday evening, news broke that the Detroit Tigers were calling up minor-league outfielder Kerry Carpenter from Toledo. Tigers calling up Kerry Carpenter, who will make his MLB debut as the DH on Wednesday. Daz Cameron optioned to Toledo.
TOLEDO, Ohio — Late Tuesday night, Kerry Carpenter was called into Lloyd McClendon’s office for a surprise meeting. “Did your dad die a few years ago?” McClendon, the Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens manager, asked. “Yes,” Carpenter said. Carpenter’s father, Ken, died on May 11, 2020, from a rare form of liver cancer at the age
Toledo Mud Hens 5, Omaha Storm Chasers 4 (box) Omaha got off to a fast start in this one, dropping three runs on Elvin Rodriguez, including a pair of home runs, in the first inning on Tuesday. He settled in from there to surprisingly go five more innings, all of them scoreless, to keep the
DETROIT — The question would come up as Kerry Carpenter mashed his way through Double-A pitching at Erie early this season: Why are you still here? Fans would ask. So would opposing players, tired of watching him dominate against their pitchers on his way to 20 home runs by mid-June. “I try not to think
Detroit — It was former Cy Young Award winner Shane Bieber chopping them up on Tuesday, but the way the Tigers have swung the bats the last two games, it might not have mattered who was on the mound. After being shut out on three hits by the Rays on Sunday, Bieber blanked them over
Kerry Carpenter is about to make his MLB debut. The Detroit Tigers promoted Carpenter, who has 30 home runs in 97 games in the minor leagues this season, to the big leagues Tuesday night. The 24-year-old outfielder will start as the designated hitter Wednesday against the Cleveland Guardians at Comerica Park. To make room for Carpenter
BELOIT, WI – Detroit Tigers Top Prospect and West Michigan Whitecaps third baseman Izaac Pacheco left early as part of a 3-2 loss to the Beloit Sky Carp on Tuesday night at ABC Supply Stadium. Pacheco, who homered in each of his first two games with West Michigan, suffered what BELOIT, WI – Detroit Tigers
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