Tigers owner Mike Ilitch said a month and a half ago that he didn’t care about the money, that he wanted the best players. General manager Al Avila told a Detroit radio station last month that a long-term deal with a top free-agent outfielder “would be pretty ugly” for the team’s payroll situation. If there was a balance to be found between the two, the structure of the Tigers’ agreement with Justin Upton might be in the ballpark.