"Magglio Ordonez, gone.

Carlos Guillen, gone.

When general manager Dave Dombrowski says it's "highly unlikely" a player will return, it's 99.99 percent certain he won't.

And that's what Dombrowski said Tuesday about those two longtime Tigers — Guillen has been in Detroit eight years, Ordonez seven.

"We pretty much told them the last month of the season that we would doubt they'd be back with us," Dombrowski said. "They've been a couple of key guys who not only helped us immensely on the field, but I don't think you can find better people.""