We have been convinced through back channel leaking from the Detroit Tigers’ front office, coupled with disappointing results on the field, that the Brad Ausmus management era at Comerica Park will end shortly after the final out of the Tigers’ 2015 season in 10 days.
General Manager Al Avila and the Tigers’ brass will have to go to work and find the right man for this job, something Ausmus was not when former GM Dave Dombrowski hired him prior to the 2014 season.
It is not that Ausmus might not be a good manager one day, it is just that he had never (aside from a brief stint with Team Israel in the most recent World Baseball Classic) managed at any level.