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Your work is – depending on how it goes from here – just starting or done. About a week after Dombrowski, the general manager, told reporters the second half of July would determine his strategy into the trading deadline, the Tigers find themselves in third place in the AL Central, 9 ½ games back of the Kansas City Royals, four games back of the Minnesota Twins and four games (and three teams) back of the second wild-card spot. If that doesn't sound too steep, there's also the matter of how the Tigers are playing – five losses in seven games, 10 losses in 17, and the reality of Cabrera's absence and what it (along with an overall inability to hit with runners in scoring position) does to the...