Now, to sound a cautionary note, Dombrowski is not Branch Rickey, and Avila probably isn’t Fred Ferreira or Andres Reiner. But clearly, if you’re swapping the way things have been done from Point A (that agonizing stretch of forever that’s been miserable from the moment Bo Schembechler darkened their door) to Point B (Dombrowski and some of the people from that now-impossibly convoluted Expos/Marlins connection pull into town), that’s about as good an upgrade as you could reasonably wish for as a Tigers fan.