The Detroit Tigers look to charge up the offence – MLB News
The Detroit Tigers, which previously did not seem interested in looking for free-agents, are now reported to have inquired about players Mark Buehrle and Aramis Ramirez.
Although not much has come to the light, what is however, pretty much clear is that the Tigers may well be more than willing to look into these prospects. Nonetheless, negotiations will be at a later stage whose result cannot be predicted right now.
With the new rules in place whereby the teams do not have to give up their Draft pick when they are signing free agents, the Detroit Tigers are well placed to go further in this quest.
Buehrle is one of Texas Rangers’ most dependable parts of the offence and is considered a long time rival of the Tigers. However, the fact that the Tigers are going in this exploratory inquiry serves as evidence of the team’s willingness to charge their
offence.
The president and general manager Dave Dombrowski had already touched upon this aspect of the game previously; whereby the focus was on the offensive upgrade of the club in the days to come as the next season approaches.
"Second base and third base are probably the two areas that will get the most of our attention," Dombrowski said a few weeks ago. "Those are two areas, where if you talk about getting better, we can get better production at those spots.”
The ambition of the president and general manager of the team becomes manifest when he says that you cannot always have enough good players in the side.
“Now we could platoon at one of those two spots, and sometimes when you talk about the players we have on our club -- you can never have enough good players, but you don't want all star players. You want some of those gritty role-type players."
The Chicago Cubs’ Aramis Ramirez is one of the most successful of hitters for the club this year with a .306 average not to mention Mark Buehrle whose singlehanded performance alone won the Rangers many games. What remains to be seen is what the Tigers decide
what to do at the end result of their inquiry.
Tags: