OT - Ausmus out as Tigers manager

Ausmus inherited a team of all stars on offense and pitching (which added Price and had a playoff rotation of Verlander, Scherzer, and Price - maybe the best playoff rotation in the past 10 years).   Won the division with 92 wins.   Established a loose clubhouse culture leaning on veterans like Hunter, a semi-effective Joe Nathan and enjoyed a near MVP year from VMart.

By 2017, the roster was depleted.  Long term contracts with unproductive aging players were everywhere.  Pitching is terrible.  FA signings horrible.  Leadership in the clubhouse gone.

Blame Ausmus?  OK.  Sure.

Well duh...

DET is destined for another couple years of top 7 draft picks - so find someone that can develop young players and motivate the rest

Houston had 3 years of 106, 107 & 111 losses followed by 92 (in 2014) - and look at them and their farm system today

can they get rid of avila too?

Going to be a while until we're competitive again, and we've known this for the last 4 years. 

Going to be a lot of last place finishes in our division, and really it doesn't matter who we get as our new manager. Just need someone to insert all our youth, sit back, and watch us lose 100+ games every year.

What we need is a GM who can maximize our draft picks and build something like Houston, Colorado, Arizona, etc. 

It's going to be a long ride until we're at the top again. 

Always seemed like a decent guy, never seemed like a good manager. Sound familiar?

The worst situational manager I have ever seen. How many games did he cost the Tigers last year pinch hitting Tyler Collins in the 9th because he wanted a lefty-lefty matchup?

I kinda cared. They taught me my lesson, though. 

Pete rose as hitting coach ( while MGM grand ) just down the road

If they could only get those deck chairs arranged just right.

Thank god

'Bout time.

Leyland.  Or Sparky.  Hoping the Tigers can rebuild quickly.

Your window for winning a championship is usually small due to super star contracts being so large. Detroit had that window WIDE OPEN with one of the best starting rotations baseball has ever seen and one of the best hitters of all time.

They fucked it up. Now they enter this dark period with no recent championships. It was all for nothing and management and players should be ashamed for wasting and choking away such an oppurtunity.

Itll be a while before we sniff a world series again. Luckily Michigan football is good again. Detroit Lions look good. and.......thats about it.

 

It's going to be a shit show. Who do you get? What would you expect? Why didn't they fire him while the team still had some life.

The axe was going to fall. Fans will be waiting a while for this ship to turn around.

It was a horrible decision to hire him in the first place. Hiring a complete greenhorn to manage a contending team is a bad idea. It didn't help that he isn't a good manager.

He started the demise of the Tigers! Now we have to wait through 10 years of bad baseball before this team rebuilds itself. Late 60s-early 70s - good. Mid 70s through the early 80s bad, mid 80s through the late 80s mostly good. 90s- bad 2001-2015 good. I hope our bad does not last too long.

Hope Avila is next. The guy ran this team into the ground.

and as I watch and root for the Astros, I've never seen such a level headed and laid back coach as AJ Hinch. The players love him and he really respects his players to let them play as they play best. This Astros team is the real deal and with JV at 4-0 and a 0.63 ERA since joining the team, they will go deep into October.

Just saying.