Baseball awards season wasn’t quite over for the Detroit Tigers. After Tarik Skubal won the American League Cy Young award, and manager A.J. Hinch was a runner up to Stephen Vogt for Manager of the Year, that could have been it, but Baseball America announced on Wednesday that Chris Fetter was their 2024 MLB Coach of the Year.
That’s a really nice big deal for a former minor league pitcher who got into coaching without any thought that he’d ever be doing it at the major league level, because he didn’t quite make it that far as a pitcher himself.