Actually, maybe Ausmus should be fired?
I'm not in that camp, before tonight my only real knock on the guy was how the team was so streaky. But tonight is pretty bad. Tigers gave away 2 outs, one Nick C booting a pretty easy play and then Kinsler with a play out of the early 2000's Tiger playbook, throwing home when no one was going home rather than taking an out at first. 5 runs later a good performance by big pasta is wasted.
I think too often 'fire the manager' is said by fans as a cure all for frustrations. But tonight moves the needle for me.
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But I thought McClendon would have been a better choice when Leyland retired.
While I think pointing to a couple of defensive gaffes and blaming the manager may be going a bit far, Ausmus has done a pretty lousy job managing his pitching staff. How many wins have we blown this season because he left Sanchez in an inning too long? 2? 3?
They got off to a good start despite injured Victor. They are without their ace pitcher. Anibel has been downright bad until last start. Victor is out.
It's a game of averages over a long season. They'll start hitting. JV will get back. Anibel will improve. Victor will make it back. In a month they'll be on a win streak (I hope).
It's not reasonable to lay this on Ausmus at this point.
this may be one of the worst threads of all-time on here.
Was all set to write a long post disputing some comments made on here but decided not too after reading someone say the AL Central is the worst division in MLB........hello?
The AL Central have been hammering teams from outside their division this year. Last weekend before Detroit went into play the Angels I think, AL Central squads were a combined somthing like 16-4 in ROAD games vs AL West teams.
Outside of maybe KC, what other team is really good in the American League this year? I would even debate the Royals are anything special as they have no starting pitching. Who can you say is a legit 85+ win team this season in the AL? Minnesota and Houston are both total frauds esp the Twins.
I'm not saying Tigers are very good either this year as they don't have the starting rotation they had in years past. If I had to pick one team in the AL I'd go with Cleveland but it's very early in the year.
Its easy to confuse the effect and the cause, as is beating up a team thats losing. But the listless plas, body language, mental gaffes. The question isn't whether a couple of bad plays were Brad's fault, its whether this team is showing up better prepared than the other team to win games.