Detroit News
Henning: Tigers' vacant GM job to attract baseball's best and brightest
Chris Ilitch proved with one dynamite blast Wednesday that he gets how badly things have gone for the Tigers. He did not wait, as anticipated, for the regular-season’s end to axe Al Avila as Tigers general manager. He did not, as some imagined, push Avila to a senior office where Avila could cozily spend his final summers with a MLB team for which Avila has toiled 20 years.