Baseball’s Newest Rivalry: Boston Vs Detroit

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Move over Red Sox-Yankees, baseball’s got a new rivalry that’s full of drama. The Detroit Tigers versus the Boston Red Sox. You might be thinking how is an AL Central team vs. an AL East team a huge rivalry? Well, there’s a lot of history to support this, but let’s begin with the most recent event.
Longtime Tigers President and GM Dave Dombrowski was let go days after the 2015 Trade Deadline and eventually signed with the Red Sox to become their president. He’s provided the Tigers with plenty of success from a pair of World Series appearances in 2006 and 2012 and blockbuster trades that netted them MVPs and Cy Youngs.
And now he’s with Boston, and his longtime assistant GM Al Avila has become the GM of the Tigers. Avila has worked for numerous years under Dave, dating back to their time with the then-Florida Marlins. And now…
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Posted on February 4, 2016, in MLB Teams: Articles and Analysis and tagged dave dombrowski, Detrolt Tigers, groundruletripleblog.wordpress.com. Bookmark the permalink. Comments Off on Baseball’s Newest Rivalry: Boston Vs Detroit.

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