If nothing else, Detroit's early indication move: moving Maybin, who fills a need for them in CF, and who had a very strong season this past year, should signal their intentions. If they truly wanted to crank it up for yet another run for Illitch, exercising Maybin's very reasonable 9 mil option and keeping him to play CF for them would have been a no brainer. They have no other viable CF on the roster (they are talking about using Gose, Collins or rookie JaCoby Jones out there), and the value on that contract was strong. They flipped it to the Angels for an Angels "prospect", a likely middle reliever in 2018 if everything breaks right. They are going to tear that team down to the screws, and shedding payroll is going to be the driving force behind the moves they make. They may well retain Miggy, but aside from him, everyone is fair game. Detroit has already announced their intentions with the Maybin move, and with public statements about moving in a different direction, and that's probably the right thing to do given their roster and their farm system limitations. The Indians are the only AL Central team who figures to be trying to compete and win in 2017, depending on how the Royals offseason goes. The Twins, White Sox and Tigers are all going to be moving towards younger, cheaper rosters, selling off their expensive contracts when the market is starved for that kind of talent.