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Dombrowski will deal ? if he gets what he wants.
We finally got an answer to the age-old question: Are the Detroit Tigers going to be buyers or sellers at Friday's MLB trade deadline?

They're going to be sellers, general manager Dave Dombrowski said Wednesday.

Or did he?

A fire sale isn't a done deal, ESPN baseball guru Tim Kurkjian said, unless Dombrowski thinks the price is right. (We'll have to reboot that cliche, too, if the Tigers do trade their ace.)

"Well, logically, (David) Price is going to go ? and (Yoenis) Cespedes is going to go, because so many teams need a bat out there ? and the Tigers need to rebuild that system, it is close to being barren," Kurkjian said on "SportsCenter" this morning.

"As Dave Dombrowski said yesterday, 'This is our chance to reboot.' But I warn everyone on this: Dave Dombrowski is really good at this. And this thought that he's just going to trade all these guys and not significantly upgrade his team as it moves forward is ridiculous.

"If he doesn't get what he wants for David Price or Yoenis Cespedes or Joakim Soria, he's going to keep them all and say, 'All right, we still got 'em, let's go try to win now.'

"Now, I don't think that's going to happen, because he made it clear yesterday they need to reboot in a certain way, and I think they will. But he's not going to give these guys away."

It's true. All Dombrowski said was that the Tigers would be "willing to listen" to offers for the pending free agents.

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http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sp...rs-begin-pitching-restoration--deal/30888305/
Tigers begin pitching restoration with deal.
detnews

The return, potentially, is a steal for the Tigers, who took advantage of Toronto's passion to win this year. To have delivered to Detroit three starters with the upside of Norris, Boyd, and Labourt is an extraordinary statement about Price's status, as well as a measure of a high-priced trade market that appears to be in Detroit's favor ahead of Friday's 4 p.m. deadline.
 
http://m.tigers.mlb.com/news/article/139743084/tigers-trade-david-price-to-blue-jays
Tigers move quick, get three pitchers for Price.
All-Star hurler goes to Toronto for package of lefties headlined by Norris.
Tigers official site

Norris turned 22 years old in April. He was a second-round Draft pick by Toronto out of high school in 2011.

Boyd, a 24-year-old southpaw drafted out of Oregon State in 2013, made his Major League debut last month and made two starts, allowing 11 runs on 15 hits over 6 2/3 innings with a walk and seven strikeouts. He rose quickly this summer after going 9-2 with 1.68 ERA over 18 starts between Buffalo and Double-A New Hampshire. He averaged six innings a start while allowing just 71 hits, striking out 107 and walking 24 in 112 2/3 innings.

Both look big league ready now; Norris could well slot into Price's spot in the Tigers rotation if Detroit wants.

Labourt is more of a projection pick. The 21-year-old Dominican, who has a 6-foot-4 frame, is 2-7 with a 4.59 ERA in his first season of Advanced Class A ball in Dunedin.

The total package projects to be more than the first-round compensation Draft pick the Tigers would've received had they kept Price and watched him sign elsewhere as a free agent. It also sticks to the Tigers' expressed plan of retooling to contend next season rather than looking toward future years.
 
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