For Tigers, Prince Fielder trade shows team's win-now mentality

You don't get to hold a parade for having a wonderful minor-league system, and they don't hand out trophies for fiscal responsibility. A general manager is

Michael Rosenberg | Nov 20, 2013

For Tigers, Prince Fielder trade shows team's win-now mentality /

Detroit's dynamic duo of Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder is no more after Wednesday's trade. — Detroit's dynamic duo of Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder is no more after Wednesday's trade :: Hannah Foslien/Getty Images

You don't get to hold a parade for having a wonderful minor-league system, and they don't hand out trophies for fiscal responsibility. A general manager is supposed to put together the 25-man major-league roster that gives his team the best chance to win the World Series. Dombrowski's Tigers still haven't won the World Series. But they should have a damn good shot again next year.

Published Nov 20, 2013

MICHAEL ROSENBERG

Michael Rosenberg is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, covering any and all sports. He writes columns, profiles and investigative stories and has covered almost every major sporting event. He joined SI in 2012 after working at the Detroit Free Press for 13 years, eight of them as a columnist. Rosenberg is the author of "War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler and America in a Time of Unrest." Several of his stories also have been published in collections of the year's best sportswriting. He is married with three children.