'We're beat up': Depleted Tigers end swing on sour note

Arlington, Texas — How do you read them? How do you assess where the Tigers are after they went 2-5 on a seven-day road trip — which ended with a walk-off, 5-4 loss to the Rangers courtesy of Nomar Mazara’s line-drive home run off Warwick Saupold in the bottom of the 10th inning?

Forget where they are; how do assess who they are?

Look at the lineup manager Ron Gardenhire presented Wednesday. It looked like it might have been from a spring training game in Port St. Lucie — you know, one of those long bus trips veteran players usually avoid.

Nick Castellanos (swollen knee) was out and not even available to pinch-hit. Victor Martinez, who had started every game on the trip, rested. Miguel Cabrera…